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@ganesh2412 closest i've got: before it says done, it has to list every caller of what it changed. the bug i shipped was a purchase fix nothing called

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@onurgenes that's rough when the name was yours first. did review say which app they matched it to?

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@solotechdev neat loop. does it also pick which moment goes in the first 3 seconds, or do you choose that? that part decides whether anyone keeps watching

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@vincenzo_naked yep, the diff reads clean. now after any shared fix i grep every caller before calling it done. a partial fix shipped wrong numbers twice before that rule

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@LeeWyattCorp the rule is simple: if i need help to use it, a customer will too. a few rough edges left before anyone else sees it

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@b4dgerr posting into silence. my last 25 tweets got 97 views total, while a single reply under someone else's post often gets 30 to 60. so now i mostly reply

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@sujal_twt same here. one morning my numbers looked great and it was mostly me testing. now every test install gets its id registered before the app even opens

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which part of your app business do you wish you'd automated first?

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my config server answered "not modified" without checking the app version.

so people on the new version would never get the new setting. old code showed the prompt on 2 of 2 launches, the fix on 0 of 6.

caught in review, before release.

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xcode 26.5 won't pass a StoreKit test file to the simulator from the command line. only the Run button does.

my whole setup is agents running commands. meet the one feature that wants a human finger.

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@damilolaodumo nice capstone. what was harder to get right, the partial payment balance or the pdf layout?

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@ChadSchraeder congrats on shipping the first one. the number i'd watch this week is product page views vs downloads in app store connect. it tells you if the screenshots are doing their job

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@hazem_ozmen subscriber #2 from a stranger says more than any download count. vet to paid app in a year is a good story, keep posting it

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@Ben_Luli @X @Zendaya @TomHolland1996 @Google @Microsoft 3 of 71 by day 18 is a real signal. do they upgrade right after the first scan or days later? i'm moving my paywalls to after the first win, curious what you see

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@LeeWyattCorp the light comes on, same build inside. every time

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@franagl confident is the right word. the commit message was very sure of itself

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fixed the bug where buying messages in my AI chat app unlocked nothing. shipped it.

still unlocked nothing. the new function was never called.

the real fix came one version later, with a test that proves the caller exists.