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Re: Apple won't let me show my app

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Post by codersfocus »

karolist wrote: post #32
Jeremy1026 wrote: post #29

I'm going to take the side of Apple on this one. Looking at the screenshots I have no idea what the app does. Screenshot 1: A sheet of paper next to a phone. Is it printer bridge? Screenshot 2/3: Calendar and Reminders. Is it a to-do compiler that pulls from sources that already exist on the device? Screenshot 4: A phone with a date picker. Ok, what about the last day of the month? Screenshot 5: Print your daily plan…

Exactly. I think this may be a trap of solo development without external feedback. You can easily logic your way down a rabbit hole, and without a second set of eyes to call you out, you end up building something that makes perfect sense to you but is completely alien to an uninvested person.

And then when you post it for people to look at they call it AI slop and viral marketing

Re: Apple won't let me show my app

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Post by graypegg »

robotswantdata wrote: post #33
graypegg wrote: post #20

I'm assuming the images on the current listing are the replacement: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wiseday-mentor-yourself/id6752... These are so much more clear. The first image shows the core concept that this generates printable schedules to go on A4 paper, and the very next images shows the print dialog in the app itself. Instantly, I know what this does. Apple pushed you towards a much better app pitch page! I'm…

Did similar. Ordered mini 58mm Bluetooth printer and wrote small service to stream the byteslop as you called it! Worked too well.

AYY! That's kick ass! I hope you don't mind, but I may need to use your comment as proof for my partner as to why it's not weird to have a homelab receipt printer heh

Re: Apple won't let me show my app

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Post by codersfocus »

Jeremy1026 wrote: post #29

I'm going to take the side of Apple on this one. Looking at the screenshots I have no idea what the app does. Screenshot 1: A sheet of paper next to a phone. Is it printer bridge? Screenshot 2/3: Calendar and Reminders. Is it a to-do compiler that pulls from sources that already exist on the device? Screenshot 4: A phone with a date picker. Ok, what about the last day of the month? Screenshot 5: Print your daily plan…

It actually sounds like you pretty much got it, except for #4. The intention was to show that you can use free text to write a cadence, there was the blue writing caret to indicate that. But it might be too subtle.

And for #6, that's how the idea actually started. I asked myself "what would happen if I prompted myself like an AI?" and it turns out, it was a great experience.

Re: Apple won't let me show my app

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Post by doc_ick »

codersfocus wrote: post #41
karolist wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly. I think this may be a trap of solo development without external feedback. You can easily logic your way down a rabbit hole, and without a second set of eyes to call you out, you end up building something that makes perfect sense to you but is completely alien to an uninvested person.

And then when you post it for people to look at they call it AI slop and viral marketing

Except in this case for this app you’re simply complaining that your app is rejected on “being ai”. I am also on team Apple, as I have no idea what this app actually does.

Re: Apple won't let me show my app

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Post by doc_ick »

codersfocus wrote: post #43
Jeremy1026 wrote: post #29

I'm going to take the side of Apple on this one. Looking at the screenshots I have no idea what the app does. Screenshot 1: A sheet of paper next to a phone. Is it printer bridge? Screenshot 2/3: Calendar and Reminders. Is it a to-do compiler that pulls from sources that already exist on the device? Screenshot 4: A phone with a date picker. Ok, what about the last day of the month? Screenshot 5: Print your daily plan…

It actually sounds like you pretty much got it, except for #4. The intention was to show that you can use free text to write a cadence, there was the blue writing caret to indicate that. But it might be too subtle. And for #6, that's how the idea actually started. I asked myself "what would happen if I prompted myself like an AI?" and it turns out, it was a great experience.

What about the blue line indicates that? The blue line did not indicate anything to me as there’s no flow.

Re: Apple won't let me show my app

#46

Post by nemothekid »

benoau wrote: post #35
nemothekid wrote: post #21

It's posts like these that make me very unempathetic to developers who complain about Apple. I'm looking at the screenshots, and I can't understand what the app does nor how the new screenshots are representative of app functionality. However, despite having unclear screenshots, the developer blames Apple's malice when they just want to maintain a standard for users. For many of these developers, Apple is just a bull…

The consequence of bad screenshots is nobody will download the app, which is a fate shared by about 80% of apps anyway. Scammers certainly aren't the ones complaining, they have no emotional attachment to their apps and they're following steps designed to satisfy a superficial review. > Digging deeper, 9to5Mac found a public GitHub repository containing instructions for a Cursor agent to create simple, vibe-coded app…

Sorry, rather the word "scamming", I should have used the word "user-hostile". I don't think Facebook is scamming users, but as it stands Apple is in the way from them using every device api to siphon every possible inch of data from users.

It's exactly these kinds of developers who shout the loudest that Apple is being unfair, when all Apple is preventing them from doing is taking advantage of users.

Re: Apple won't let me show my app

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Post by Jeremy1026 »

codersfocus wrote: post #43
Jeremy1026 wrote: post #29

I'm going to take the side of Apple on this one. Looking at the screenshots I have no idea what the app does. Screenshot 1: A sheet of paper next to a phone. Is it printer bridge? Screenshot 2/3: Calendar and Reminders. Is it a to-do compiler that pulls from sources that already exist on the device? Screenshot 4: A phone with a date picker. Ok, what about the last day of the month? Screenshot 5: Print your daily plan…

It actually sounds like you pretty much got it, except for #4. The intention was to show that you can use free text to write a cadence, there was the blue writing caret to indicate that. But it might be too subtle. And for #6, that's how the idea actually started. I asked myself "what would happen if I prompted myself like an AI?" and it turns out, it was a great experience.

> It actually sounds like you pretty much got it

Awesome, so I got that it doesn't make any sense.

Re: Apple won't let me show my app

#49

Post by robotswantdata »

graypegg wrote: post #42
robotswantdata wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did similar. Ordered mini 58mm Bluetooth printer and wrote small service to stream the byteslop as you called it! Worked too well.

AYY! That's kick ass! I hope you don't mind, but I may need to use your comment as proof for my partner as to why it's not weird to have a homelab receipt printer heh

It is weird. Embrace it

Re: Apple won't let me show my app

#50

Post by owldown »

codersfocus wrote: post #39
owldown wrote: post #18

Looking at what is on the website and in the App Store, I still don’t have a good understanding of what this app even does. It prints something based on your calendar and some self-help prompts? App Store rules aside, since this app has no free trial, it should be easier for a potential customer to understand what this app is attempting to be.

It definitely has a free trial, and yeah it prints 3 tools: * a timeline which pulls in your calendar (you can use this to timebox as well as timetrack.) * a daily list of prompts, which are scheduled using recur rules (which you can generate using natural language.) a prompt is useful for lots of things, which is the hard part of explaining it * a list of your reminders for the reminders app, which can also work lik…

These three bullet points paint a much clearer picture of what this app does (I’ve not used it, so I can’t say whether or not the picture it paints is accurate) than the screenshots or description that are currently on the App Store.

I was wrong about the lack of a free trial.

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