Pontifex

I analyzed hundreds of App Store rejections. The vibe coding era has made the problem dramatically worse.
I want to share something that's been genuinely painful to watch as someone who's spent months deep in App Store compliance data and as someone who has had past issues with compliance for vibe coded projects.

Vibe coding has changed everything about how fast you can build. Lovable hit $100M ARR in 8 months. Replit scaled from $2.8M to $150M ARR in under a year. 25% of Y Combinator's Winter 2025 cohort had codebases that were 95% AI-generated. The tools are incredible and the speed is real.

But the rejection rate hasn't changed. It's actually gotten worse.

50% of apps are rejected on first submission. 40% of all apps get rejected at least once.