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3/ With Composer-1 I finally felt fully engaged again! No "sit back and wait" moments that kill your momentum. Its intelligence is around same as GPT-5 (which is dumber than Sonnet), but the speed is everything!

Have you tried it yet? Is it a game-changer for you too?

2/ My biggest gripe with coding using LLMs was how they disrupt your flow. You think, you prompt, and then you're stuck waiting for the magic to happen. With GPT-5 models, it feels like an eternity, and you often end up getting distracted and doomscrolling.

You get the quality result faster getting the most of the tools available! Combining them in a not very obvious way 😀

9/ That’s the real lesson - control what you can, build safety nets for what you can't, and never rely on a single platform to decide your fate. 😵‍💫

Keep building folks!

8/ We were lucky it was only 24 hours.
Famously, Viktor Seraleev lost his entire App Store account in fight with Apple after a wrongful block. But he didn’t quit, came back stronger and rebuilt his thriving app business, inspiring developers all over the world.

7/ The App Store is great for distribution - but putting all your eggs in one basket is risky.
You’re not in control, and overnight, your entire revenue can disappear.

6/
1️⃣ Never plan big launches or campaigns when transferring or converting App Store accounts - things will break.
2️⃣ Always have a "free mode" or feature-flagged fallback ready. You’ll thank yourself when the unthinkable happens.

The bigger lesson:

5/ Can you guess which one it was? 🥁

A day later - poof. Everything came back.
Subscriptions reappeared. The app worked again.
Apple support never responded (still hasn’t about this issue).
The review passed a few days later, but we ditched that release.

What we learned:

4/ 👉 Build and submit a completely free version of the app ASAP
🧠 Better a free app than a broken one

Then we started the wait with three possible outcomes:
1. Apple fixes the issue.
2. The app magically fixes itself.
3. Our emergency free version passes review.

3/
• Validate active subscriptions
• Show the paywall for new users (cause there were no plans to show)

In other words, no one could use the app.
We were burning through angry emails by the minute.

Waiting for Apple? That’d take a week (if they ever replied).
So we made a call:

2/ Until one morning - our support inbox exploded.
Customers: "My subscription disappeared"
New users: "I can’t subscribe"
Our revenue: 💀

What’s going on??

We checked our App Store listing only to find out that ALL SUBSCRIPTION PLANS WERE GONE.
Completely wiped out 🔥

Our app couldn’t:

1/ We needed to convert our individual App Store account to a business account.
Pretty standard - just a support request, Apple handles the transfer.
After exchanging a few emails, we gave the green light and kicked it off.

Then… silence.
For weeks, no confirmation, no visible changes.

But found a way to fix it back!