My app got rejected with the guideline about spam and duplicates. The message says the app is similar to others already on the store and does not provide sufficient unique value. The app is a small utility. It is not a…
610 subscription purchases last month. 22 of them were refunded automatically and I only found out because a user asked why Pro turned off after two days. I acknowledge purchases in a nightly reconcile job. Median…
Annual subscriber renewed on the 14th. My backend did not hear about it until she emailed on the 17th, opened the app, and it silently fixed itself in front of her. I listen to in a task started at launch and post each…
Third rejection, same guideline. "We were unable to locate a mechanism for users to restore previously purchased content." There is a Restore Purchases button. It is in Settings, under Account. The paywall shows on…
Solo, roughly six weeks of evenings before I want this in front of real people. Habit tracking app, subscription only, no free tier. Plan A: iOS only, StoreKit 2 direct, no third party in the billing path. Plan B: Expo…
$2.1k MRR, both stores, one developer. The vendor cut is about $21 a month today, which is nothing, but it scales with revenue and I keep running the number at $20k MRR and flinching. I have written receipt validation…
First app I have ever submitted. It is a local only calculator for a niche trade no accounts, no server, no network calls at all. I left the demo account fields empty and wrote "no account required" in the notes.…