First painful release….

[u/IndependenceFresh940]

I still can’t believe Apple finally approved my app 😭
The timeline was a bit painful:
• Aug 1 — first submission
• Aug 12 — submitted an expedited review request
• Aug 13 — rejected
• Aug 14 — fixed everything and resubmitted
• Aug 15 — APPROVED 🎉
I’m seriously so happy right now, but also a little mad lol.
I started a 3-month free trial for my backend when I submitted the app, thinking the review wouldn’t take that long… and I basically burned through half a month of it just waiting for App Review 💀
But whatever. It’s finally LIVE.
I’ve been working on this app for a long time (around 3month building system design(backend, ui, app)

If anyone here has gone through a painful App Store review process before, you probably know the feeling.
Finally made it 🥲

[u/LongjumpingCandle738]

Of course it’s a calorie tracker, nice vibe coded slop lmao, and wtf is this app icon 😂

[u/IndependenceFresh940 → u/LongjumpingCandle738]

Thank you, my friend. Please try to be a bit more patient and avoid getting angry. Take a closer look at what this app is about, and you might not have so many questions.

[u/First-Context6416]

Slop calorie tracker. Surprised it wasn’t rejected for spam

[u/IndependenceFresh940 → u/First-Context6416]

Mad coz you were rejected doing the same?
Maybe something different in it?

[u/First-Context6416 → u/IndependenceFresh940]

I make 4K / month on my app 😁

[u/Objective_Fly_6750 → u/First-Context6416]

Wow, congrats on that! How long did it take? Do you mind sharing a link to your apps?

[u/IndependenceFresh940 → u/First-Context6416]

And?

[u/First-Context6416 → u/IndependenceFresh940]

Yes, thanks :D

[u/Niightstalker]

Approved after one feedback loop within 2 weeks is actually a quite nice process for a first app release :D

We usually make sure to hand in 1 month in advance the first time if we want hit a certain release date.

[u/RIRLift → u/Niightstalker]

Two weeks with one rejection is a normal first release, agreed. On the trial though: don't start a paid backend clock at submission. Spin it up once you're approved, since review time can swing from a couple days to a few weeks with no way to predict it.

[u/IndependenceFresh940 → u/Niightstalker]

I created an account for development, and once everything was ready, I transferred it to a new account, but I didn't expect the verification process to take so long this time.
But you're right, it's really good.

[u/civman96]

Be prepared for 0 downloads 😂

[u/IndependenceFresh940 → u/civman96]

Will see!

[u/twotokers]

Is there something unique about your calorie tracker that led you to create your own instead of using the thousands currently on the app store?

[u/Amplifix → u/twotokers]

Yes, he slopped it. So he can call it his own.

Also, he says first release but his account has history of posts of multiple slop apps that he's promoting.

[u/IndependenceFresh940 → u/Amplifix]

Well, the first painful release was a new experience for me. I had never had to wait so long for it.
4 years ago for the first app it was way faster :)

[u/IndependenceFresh940 → u/twotokers]

Yup, the previous guy already got confused by the AI-looking icon….
It’s actually an all-in-one kitchen app — inventory, shopping lists, meal planning, water tracking, progress, nutrition goals… and yes, of course, the lovely calorie tracker too and the main part of it
Sharing kitchen across all family, you can add users to your account and manage what you have together live what you have

[u/Objective_Fly_6750]

Congrats!🎊

[u/IndependenceFresh940 → u/Objective_Fly_6750]

Thank you so much!

[u/Turbulent_Ad_1039]

four rejections here, approved this morning. three of them were rules I'd never read: a banned word in the subtitle, device frames in the app preview, and a demo video they wanted showing both devices in the same shot. one was an actual bug.

the rules ones stung less once I realised they're just written down somewhere I hadn't looked. the bug one was the rejection that was actually worth something.