News:yc was rejected from the App Store

#1

Post by news-yc » Fri, May 06, 2011, 2:06 AM UTC

News:yc was rejected from the App Store
newsyc.me

Re: News:yc was rejected from the App Store

#2

Post by geuis » Fri, May 06, 2011, 2:26 AM UTC

How about some screenshots of what your app looks like? There could be very simple changes that you need to make to get it accepted.

Re: News:yc was rejected from the App Store

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Post by news-yc » Fri, May 06, 2011, 2:37 AM UTC

geuis wrote: post #2

How about some screenshots of what your app looks like? There could be very simple changes that you need to make to get it accepted.

The homepage (linked just under the post, http://newsyc.me/) has there's a few screenshots, and there's also a slightly outdated video (http://vimeo.com/21962215) on Vimeo.

Re: News:yc was rejected from the App Store

#4

Post by boohiss420 » Fri, May 06, 2011, 2:41 AM UTC

Waaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Re: News:yc was rejected from the App Store

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Post by pohl » Fri, May 06, 2011, 2:46 AM UTC

Your app does look like a step up from vanilla form field entry in mobile safari. It is about as basic an app as one can make, though. After reading your reference to Flipboard I was expecting an innovative user experience, though. Instead it's widgets straight off the palette in IB, but orange.

Have you considered something more ambitious on the UI front?

Re: News:yc was rejected from the App Store

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Post by daimyoyo » Fri, May 06, 2011, 2:47 AM UTC

Maybe you could contact PG and see if he'd be willing to partner with you on it? Then it becomes an "official" app rather than an aggregator. Best of luck either way.

Re: News:yc was rejected from the App Store

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Post by ghiculescu » Fri, May 06, 2011, 2:50 AM UTC

news-yc wrote: post #3

geuis wrote: post #2

How about some screenshots of what your app looks like? There could be very simple changes that you need to make to get it accepted.

The homepage (linked just under the post, http://newsyc.me/ ) has there's a few screenshots, and there's also a slightly outdated video ( http://vimeo.com/21962215 ) on Vimeo.

Or you can build the project yourself, https://github.com/newsyc/newsyc/

Re: News:yc was rejected from the App Store

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Post by hboon » Fri, May 06, 2011, 2:50 AM UTC

news-yc wrote: post #3

geuis wrote: post #2

How about some screenshots of what your app looks like? There could be very simple changes that you need to make to get it accepted.

The homepage (linked just under the post, http://newsyc.me/ ) has there's a few screenshots, and there's also a slightly outdated video ( http://vimeo.com/21962215 ) on Vimeo.

I took the liberty of downloading the source, compiling it and taking a few screenshots - see http://www.dropmocks.com/mUuib.

Looks like a clean job using stock UI controls.

As for your question in the README of whether it works on Xcode prior to v4, it works out-of-the-box on v3.2.6.

Good job!

Re: News:yc was rejected from the App Store

#9

Post by hboon » Fri, May 06, 2011, 3:00 AM UTC

How do you use telekinesis?

Re: News:yc was rejected from the App Store

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Post by jokermatt999 » Fri, May 06, 2011, 3:32 AM UTC

On the other hand, there are several nice Hacker News apps for Android. Even better, if they were needlessly and rudely rejected as this app was, it would be trivial to install them anyway (except for AT&T phones). Once again, Apple shows that if you develop for iOS, you run the very real risk of your hard work being for nothing. How many apps have to get rejected before people realize this?