u/wolvesandwords
▲ 13 r/MarvelCards
Two Blasters
Great quality product and fun hits even on the low tier boxes.
u/wolvesandwords — 20 days ago
▲ 2 r/ShowYourApp
HOTLINE is Scroll to Table: recipes, friends, grocery carts, and an AI cooking assistant
Full disclosure: I built HOTLINE.
I know the cooking-app space is crowded. The thing I think we are doing differently is connecting the entire trip from inspiration to dinner.
Foodscroll is free. Follow friends, see what they are cooking, see their recipes and ratings, save what looks good, import recipes from anywhere, upload your own, connect your grocery store, and put recipes straight into a real cart.
That will stay free.
Friday is the premium assistant. She helps you decide what to make, use what is already at home, cook with less stress, and spend less.
Work My Budget builds meals around the amount you actually have, the number of meals you need, and the store where you shop.
The calorie counter is connected to Friday, your planner, recipes, and cart, so staying healthy fits into the same system as cooking and shopping.
Upload five original recipes with your own photos and get one month of premium free. You can also apply for a Friend of HOTLINE creator page.
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hotline/id6760947647
I would love feedback on whether Scroll to Table feels as clean inside the app as it sounds here.
u/wolvesandwords — 2 months ago
I made a cooking app that turns recipe inspiration into a real grocery car
Full disclosure: I made this.
I know there are a million places to find recipes. I wanted to fix everything that happens after you find one.
HOTLINE is Scroll to Table.
Scroll recipes, save them, import recipes from anywhere, upload your own, follow friends, see what they are cooking, see how they rate recipes, connect your grocery store, and put the ingredients straight into a real cart.
That entire side is free and will stay free.
Friday is the premium assistant. She helps you decide what to make, work with what is already in the fridge, get through the actual cooking, and spend less through Work My Budget.
The calorie counter is connected to Friday, your recipes, your planner, and your grocery cart, which makes tracking what you actually cook a lot easier.
Upload five original recipes with your own photos and get one month of Friday Premium free. You can also apply to become a Friend of HOTLINE and get your own creator page.
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hotline/id6760947647
Happy to answer anything about how it works. I also love blunt feedback.
u/wolvesandwords — 2 months ago
▲ 4 r/iOSProgramming
Apple Dev Support CIRCULAR HELL
I'm the founder of a startup trying to launch our app under our actual company name, for which I have the trademark and all the documentation.
Apple says the name's blocked by some old app from a prior developer. Annoying but whatever, I tracked the guy down. He could not have been nicer and more helpful.
He has told Apple, in writing, more than once, that he doesn't want the name, has no interest in it, no objection to us using it, and would like Apple to release it to us.
His old company isn't operating. They haven't shipped an iOS app in years. He doesn't even seem to have access to whatever ancient App Store Connect account Apple wants him to log into.
Apple's reply is still basically: "Cool, he just needs to log into App Store Connect and delete or rename the app."
So now we're stuck in this loop where the prior owner is saying "please release it to them" and Apple is saying "great, have him log into the account he doesn't have access to so he can release it to you."
This isn't a trademark fight. Nobody's contesting anything. Nobody's squatting on the name. The prior developer has said yes, repeatedly, in writing, with Apple copied.
The App Support / App Store Notices process on this is embarrassing. Not the front-line person sending the template, I get it, they're boxed in. But whoever owns this process has built a wall with no door. There is no escalation path for the obvious edge case: old app name, dead company, prior owner consents, prior owner can't get into the account.
That shouldn't be a hard problem to solve.
A startup shouldn't be blocked from launching because Apple has a stale app name parked behind a dead company and a login from the Stone Age.
Has anyone dealt with this and actually gotten a real human at Apple to use judgment? Is there an actual escalation path? Or is the official answer "go fuck yourself"?
Right now this is just broken.
u/wolvesandwords — 3 months ago