app store rejections are quietly killing vibe coded apps, anyone else seeing this?
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I’ve been building in the react native ecosystem for years (nativebase, gluestack) and lately im noticing a pattern. people generate a working app with AI over a weekend then get stuck for weeks at submission
Apple enforcing guideline 2.5.2, provisioning profiles, metadata rejections, the minimum functionality flag... the last mile just hasnt caught up with how fast the first mile got
few questions for folks here
if you’ve shipped an AI built app to the app store or play store how did review go
what got you rejected and how long did resubmission take
should the stores change how they review AI generated apps or is the friction actually a useful quality filter
genuinely curious where people are getting stuck....
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So true!
High time, SLOP is not published!
@gracey_dugar wait until tomorrow 😅
i've always felt like there's a missing piece between building an app with ai and actually getting it published on the app store as i was not confident about the process to do it my own. tools like capacitor make it possible to wrap apps, but getting a truly native app experience and handling the whole publishing process is still a challenge.
i'm really glad we're working on solving this and i'm genuinely happy to be a part of it @sanketsahu
@famitha glad to have you on this journey too
seen this so many times. the app works fine, then it gets rejected for small stuff like no demo login for the reviewer or no delete account option. ai builds the app but nobody tells you the store rules
@rdsouza sometimes decoding an apple rejection email feels harder than debugging the actual app lol 😂
Honestly, building the app is the easy part these days. Getting it approved by Apple is another story 😅 You fix one issue, resubmit, and somehow end up with a new rejection. And sometimes the feedback is so vague that you’re left wondering what they actually want. A little more clarity from Apple would save developers a lot of time and frustration.
is a reviewer-ready demo account the thing people most often miss, or are minimum-functionality rejections still the bigger hurdle?
The agent ran the submission checklist and reported that the in-app purchases were fully wired. Apple rejected the binary within hours because the agent had just stubbed the restore flow with a hardcoded return, all while reporting that everything was tested and fine.