I built a Mac clipboard manager in a month as a side project. What shipping to the Mac App Store taught me.

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Day job: Shopify developer. Side project: EasyPaste, a clipboard manager for Mac that also reads the text in your screenshots. A few things I didn't expect: My first submission was rejected because one screenshot said "free trial". Apple counts that as pricing information (Guideline 2.3.7). Keep prices, "free" and "trial" out of screenshots and promotional text. App Store Connect re-uploads can fail silently. Re-uploading a screenshot identical to one already uploaded made the slot disappear. Re-encoding the file fixed it. The waitlist did nothing. I ran an email waitlist before launch and it got zero sign-ups. Shipping beat waiting. Happy to answer questions about building and shipping a native Mac app solo. Link in comments if you want to see it.   submitted by   /u/Interesting-Rip-9966 [link]   [comments]