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Submitting an app through Google Play is incredibly frustrating. I need at least 12 email addresses of 12 android users who are willing to test bitchat for 2 weeks before I can publish the app. I have no idea how to get 12 users, so I'll ask you nostr. If you want to be a tester, please DM me your email address and I'll invite you in google play store. Please help. Already sorry to have to ask this. image

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This will be an infinite rabbit hole. A friend of mine used to publish a simple board game on google play and every few months they'll throw you new hoops to jump through until you give up. Anyway if you still need email adresses just reply to this note and i'll give mine through matrix.
nostr, I need 3-5 more testers. I know it sucks. Please send me Google Play email addresses you use to install apps. Sigh.
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Submitting an app through Google Play is incredibly frustrating. I need at least 12 email addresses of 12 android users who are willing to test bitchat for 2 weeks before I can publish the app. I have no idea how to get 12 users, so I'll ask you nostr. If you want to be a tester, please DM me your email address and I'll invite you in google play store. Please help. Already sorry to have to ask this. image
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Zapstore is approximately 99.9% easier
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Submitting an app through Google Play is incredibly frustrating. I need at least 12 email addresses of 12 android users who are willing to test bitchat for 2 weeks before I can publish the app. I have no idea how to get 12 users, so I'll ask you nostr. If you want to be a tester, please DM me your email address and I'll invite you in google play store. Please help. Already sorry to have to ask this. image
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I made an app once. A simple sat to dollar calculator with a price api in a web view called satworth. I put it on my GitHub and on zap store. But after seeing what I needed to to to get on the Play store, I decided I'm probably never doing app development ever again. I've only ever focused on PWA since then. That shit is beyond ridiculous.
Freedom Tech is NEVER having to Ask for Permission. This is why I hate mobile apps being captured by big tech but most people will never see this censorship apparatus starts with a heavy handed approval process that just breaks developers who already work insanely hard at their craft. This is why #nostr and this is why webapps first, its permissionless, so think twice what you are asking for before begging for a big tech mobile app!! Yes i know you and apk, but thats like <0.1% of you πŸ™ˆπŸ˜† πŸ’œπŸ₯•πŸ’œ View quoted note β†’
Yup, we don't even bother making a formal app for our AI UI. If we did we'd somehow have to ensure that the UI and all the AI's accessible to it are completely sanetized. Because those verificators are assholes that will deliberately try to prompt the AI to do forbidden stuff which is an unreasonable standard. Its like banning a browser app for adult content after typing in a porn site yourself. But instead mobile users wanting to use the online APi version can just go to and add to homescreen and it will work great. Despite it being a web app its super snappy once loaded.
Separate the App Store from the State. Well, in the EU, it's too late.
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Submitting an app through Google Play is incredibly frustrating. I need at least 12 email addresses of 12 android users who are willing to test bitchat for 2 weeks before I can publish the app. I have no idea how to get 12 users, so I'll ask you nostr. If you want to be a tester, please DM me your email address and I'll invite you in google play store. Please help. Already sorry to have to ask this. image
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