Phil Williams

🇬🇧 Solo founder building a pet health app from scratch | Documenting the journey

[Phil Williams @builtbyphil]

Built an app because I got a puppy and couldn’t find a decent way to track her health. Now I’m trying to turn it into a real product. Meet Amber 🐾

[Phil Williams @builtbyphil]

@eliana_jordan They should have made one of the almonds red, then you could feel like Neo in The Matrix

[Phil Williams @builtbyphil]

@twoclipping PROMPTS

[Phil Williams @builtbyphil]

@Hartdrawss LAUNCH

[Phil Williams @builtbyphil]

@_annakulina Nice! How’s the marketing going? Any nuggets of wisdom for what’s working so far?

[Phil Williams @builtbyphil]

@GeorgeLampro20 And here I am struggling to get 30 free users to my app thats live on App Store and Play store 😅

[Phil Williams @builtbyphil]

Finally got my app live on Play store! A lot more hoops to jump through compared to iOS but got there in the end 😅

[Phil Williams @builtbyphil]

@_annakulina @maubaron @ErnestoSOFTWARE That would be super helpful thanks 🙏

[Phil Williams @builtbyphil]

@GeorgeLampro20 Great video - but two questions "Bot the followers" - how do we do this?! And also won't this put our account at risk of being flagged?

[Lino @LinoLeighton]

Does anyone have any contact at @apple my apps been in review for 10 days. My app got randomly remove for having an abandon paywall.

I didn’t think this was an issue because I saw so many other apps having it and all my previous builds were approved with no problem. And then 10 days ago I posted my onboarding on X and it was removed with no warning or ability to fix the issue without losing all my business.

I immediately fixed all the notes they had and read the guidelines on appropriate paywall practices to make sure I am compliant.

This was my only source of income and I was on track to do my first $10k month. It really sucks that I don’t even have a phone number to call.

If you could repost to help me out I would appreciate it because it seems that X is the only way to get in contact with Apple.

[Elitza Vasileva @ElitzaVasileva]

I just launched own․page on Product Hunt 🚀

It’s my first ever launch there, and I’d really appreciate your support!

If you could check it out and give feedback it would mean the world to me.

I’ve poured my heart into own․page and devoted so much time to building it, so I’d love to get it in front of as many people as possible.

Thank you so much 💜

[Phil Williams @builtbyphil]

@eliana_jordan I agree. I'm going through this now. So much more complicated. Frustrating!

[Phil Williams @builtbyphil]

@_annakulina How does it help for marketing out of interest?

[Phil Williams @builtbyphil]

Finally got there - third time lucky! #myfirstapp

[Phil Williams @builtbyphil]

@eliana_jordan How do you do the $1 payment? A custom discount just for testing?

[Phil Williams @builtbyphil]

@athrvNaik7 @ZachJex Links to a 404 😁

[Phil Williams @builtbyphil]

App rejected!!! Got to add terms and privacy links to upsell pages, Eula link and they want to allow in app payment before account creation which makes no sense to me so have pushed back on that 🤞

[Phil Williams @builtbyphil]

@ZachJex Ah yes. I’ve already done them (well Claude did 😅), just need to add the links to the upsell pages 👍

[Phil Williams @builtbyphil]

@ZachJex Easy as in easy to fix those things?

[Phil Williams @builtbyphil]

@maubaron If they’re just onboarding would they really be ready to leave a review without trying the app properly?