Share your first mobile app store deployment stories 🚀
I'd love to hear other people's stories about their first mobile app deployment to the Google Play Store and/or the Apple App Store.
How'd it go?
What issues did you run into?
What was surprisingly easy?
What would you do differently to prepare next time?
or anything else you can remember!
Reason why I'm curious: I'm a web dev working on launching my first mobile app and have just started looking into all the steps and requirements for deploying to the app stores. I can't tell if it's more involved than deploying a web app, or if it just feels that way bc it's new 😆
My Android deployment lesson from Kinetic Override: the store page has to answer the scary permission question before the feature question. For a no-root macro recorder, “records taps/swipes locally, no ads, no account, Android 15+” needs to be obvious in screenshots and first-run copy, otherwise people bounce before understanding the use case.
My biggest lesson from shipping an Android utility: explain the scary permission before the user has to grant it. With Kinetic Override, the product is simple — record taps/swipes/long-presses and replay local loops — but the trust framing around AccessibilityService matters as much as the feature list.