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@Shivansh_C @jsngr Ten years*

@Shivansh_C @jsngr Taking longer doesn’t mean more selective. Feb years ago they took two weeks and let fart apps in

it now takes Apple longer to approve your app than it did for you to build it

@nickgdwn @jakemor Thank you. And if I miss a webhook for syncing subscriber state with my backend for conversion tracking can I replay webhooks or backfill another way? Or I just use Apple Connect Server API for this?

@aehlke @jakemor You'll want to use a custom action for this. Here's our guide to setting this up: superwall.com/docs/dashboard…

@jakemor I use custom referral codes to gate access to iOS IAP products with intro offers. So I can track referral commissions (I track via webhooks). Can I do this kind of product gating with custom codes in Superwall, even if I need to do something myself outside it? Thanks

@toseefkhan_ Did you figure this out?

If you had to implement promo codes with Superwall for a mobile app(for revenue sharing with your marketing partner), how would you do it?

@MattCowlin @alpennec Why not ever do yearly

@alpennec No hard paywall and no yearly (I never do yearly)

I did two things on November 9th. Can anybody guess what?

@steipete Looks like they threaten to terminate accounts only for automated extraction of responses, not input (“pressing enter”): > What you cannot do … Automatically or programmatically extract data or Output

@aehlke "we didn't build or lock breaker for a spefic lock but for all locks, so it's legal" weird logic?

In the next version of oracle🧿, I'll add project mode, so GPT 5 Pro code queries won't clutter your chat history. github.com/steipete/oracle

@steipete I think they avoid the issue by not being purpose built for specific websites, and leaving terms compliance to user discretion on where to run it

@aehlke Based on that, every AI based bowser violates the ToS. I disagree with that assumption. But IANAL.

@jonathanzliu @jackfriks I recommend testing this UI more. “3 days free” sounds more like a discount (like how we communicate annual being cheaper) instead of a trial

@jackfriks yep this is exactly what i do no free trial on weekly, yes free trial on yearly

NEVERMIND DONT get rid of your free trial gotta incentivize people to sign up for the yearly plan so they don’t churn

@steipete AFAIK any automation of the website or chatgpt app is against their terms and risks account termination. Might want to warn users adopting that. Thanks for clarifying the options

@aehlke And even that mode works only with your existing paid Pro account on your computer using your logged in browser. I just automate pressing enter.

@levelsio @ChatsWithMax There are many rewarding parts of Japan with very little tourism. Especially when there is no airport or shinkansen access.

@ChatsWithMax Not just Shibuya Like majority of hotels, ryokans etc all over Japan sold out when we tried Was very hard to find stuff Japan is experiencing record numbers of tourism now

This time in Tokyo we experienced the full range of hotels I think, from $40 to $5000/night We arrived from a long night flight where we barely slept from Singapore and then at our hotel we couldn't get early check in cause it was full (which seems to be the case everywhere you go now in Japan, everything is fully booked, soooooooooooo many tourists, like I never seen this at this level anywhere, not even Thailand or Paris!) So anyway we were in Shibuya at 7am completely homeless, roaming the streets, eating in 7/11, we walked around and tried to find other hotels to get a room like APA, but they were all full too, entire Shibuya was full! Then I remembered, Japan has those hourly 🏩 love hotels of course, so I found one, they're kinda camouflaged, you don't really see many signs, just a black wall and some stairs down, then a front desk that has half the wall covered so you can't look the front desk staff in the face (cause shame and privacy) She didn't speak English and we didn't speak Japanese but she was very helpful though and got us a room until 5pm! Most Japanese are honestly so helpful and sweet trying to get you what you want without much/any English It was a very compact and a bit old room but very clean. I kept it secret from my gf that it was a love hotel or she would never want to go in 😂👌 she also kept her jacket on thinking it was dirty My argument for the love hotel being clean was "it's cleaned more than a regular hotel" for that exact reason. And it was REALLY clean to be fair. After convincing gf, she took her bomber jacket off too I actually slept really good for a few hours It was 6700 JPY or $40 to stay 7am-5pm, so ~10 hours, not so bad. And the room had everything like soap, tooth brush, comb etc. Probably if we booked days before it could have been much cheaper. There's something in me that highly prefers these kind of compact functional hotels over luxury hotels, obviously it's the Dutchness in me (we like simple and cheap), but also I've increasingly realized luxury hotels are just facades for chains with shitty service I feel with compact functional hotels you get what you pay for and things usually just work better (I think because there's higher volume and you have less expectations), very similar to how EasyJet, RyanAir, Air Asia, and JetBlue are low-cost but actually really good airlines So this trip we experienced both $43 love hotels and $5000/night luxury hotel which was Aman (the quoted tweet below is Aman) Aman was flawless btw, and I think the best hotel I've ever stayed, we paid for a big suite, and it was a crazy amount of money, and everyone asked me how it was Well it was what you'd expect from a regular hotel, everything just works, the people are helpful, the AC works and is cold (!!!!!!!), when something goes wrong you call and there's a person at your door instantly to fix it, no need to keep calling, it's like how hotels were before "The Great Enshittification of post-COVID 2020" happened, just excellent! It says something about hidden inflation that a good luxury hotel where you actually get service you used to get is now $5000/night! Unaffordable but I guess that's how it is now! Don't call me jaded, I'm just the messenger! Obviously Asia helps, hotels are just much better here than the rest of the world in terms of service Anyway I hope you like the video tour of our love hotel 😊🏩

@BuildWithAJ @jonathanzliu @_thomasip They need it to get people to complete funnels. Doesn’t matter for rest of app necessarily

@aehlke @jonathanzliu @_thomasip I see your point, Not all apps need flow state. I acknowledge it's good for conversion tho

doesn’t apply for mobile apps. the longer your onboarding, the higher your conversion rate

@MGhodsizadeh @mitsuhiko My theory is the closing tags give more context than a count of nested generic closing symbols

@mitsuhiko and what was the format from your experience ? Or it was different per model? do you consider xml as an option?

AI discourse on Twitter is frustrating. Take this tweet with thousands of views. It claims you should use TOON instead of JSON. But if you actually count tokens, the savings are … barely existing, it's not in the training data, and tabular JSON beats it. x.com/DataChaz/statu…

@BuildWithAJ @jonathanzliu @_thomasip I think it’s also about training the user to hit “continue” to move on and making that rewarding. Not to deceive but to induce flow state

@jonathanzliu @_thomasip so sunk cost fallacy?

@mynameiskakkar @jonathanzliu Ask churn for rating??

@jonathanzliu Run a crazy psychology warfare during onboarding. 1. Zeigarnik effect 2. Flow state 3. Jakob effect Long and filled with psychology. You ll have a crazy conversion. Also, whoever churns out was probably not important, for them put a rating system in place to get a 5 star asap.

@anumness I just run several agents in the same repo. No issues in a while now

This really 2x-ed my speed. I cant believe I was cloning the repo previously 🤦‍♀️

@drunknbass @zats Use qwen3 0.6b

@zats Yea I tried it last week and it was rough. Apple Intelligence 4096 context size was too limiting for my use case.

Tried to integrate with AnyLanguageModel github.com/mattt/AnyLangu… Pros: + Very small framework surface + Familiar API + Interop of models is nice in theory (didn't need it for my case) Cons: - You often end up with lowest common denominator (spoiler, it is FoundationModels API). I tried to add support to multi-turn function calls via OAI responses API, quite a bit of pain (not impossible but wasn't worth the effort in my case) - Remember that sending API keys from the client is a subject to MITM (unless your app allows user to specify API key, which Apple had been rejecting last thing I saw) Has anyone tried integrating yet? What's your use case and experience?

@umutbuilds @seraleev They directly terminate too. It depends on their mood

@seraleev Its a relief that they at least send warnings and not directly terminate.

I don’t know the full statistics, but this fall has definitely been a record-breaking season in terms of how many developers have reached out to me after their Apple accounts were shut down And do you know what the number one reason is? Using someone else’s intellectual property Apple has been especially strict lately, banning developers who use third-party brands in their app names or metadata – including internal model names and product names from OpenAI, Google, and other major companies Many developers say, “It’s just a word.” No. It’s not just a word – it’s an IP violation What’s surprising is that most of these developers had already received multiple warnings, yet they kept trying to increase their app’s visibility by using someone else’s brand And here’s the important part: even if a trademark isn’t officially registered, that does not give you permission to use the name. Apple and Google don’t rely solely on trademark registration – they look at whether your app could mislead users. Apple App Store – Guideline 5.2 explicitly prohibits using third-party brands and trademarks without permission. Google Play’s IP/impersonation policy also removes apps that appear to be associated with a well-known company or product. Using “popular” names (like AI model names) in your app title is a direct risk – you can lose not only your app, but your entire account. And once Apple removes your account, the chances of recovering it are extremely low. So ask yourself: Is one word really worth losing everything you’ve spent years building?

@mamkindesigner Try having fewer things to read per image especially that second one

designed a bunch of app store screenshots in October ✨