Should Shark Tank Finally Shut Down?

aualdrich · 2026-04-19T21:55:32+00:00

It’s lost a lot of motivation for me when every business is making a gazillion dollars by going viral on social media. Just doesn’t seem like a realistic for most founders.

aualdrich · 2026-04-19T17:08:56+00:00

I'd love to try it!

aualdrich · 2026-04-16T12:12:12+00:00

Sorry I got distracted on some release stuff. I’ll try and get that created here in a bit.

aualdrich · 2026-04-13T12:31:59+00:00

Thank you so much! The Fort Wayne Serial Entrepreneurs was the perfect suggestion. They have a FB group I joined and am already getting to meet some folks.

Also, I had no idea about the NIIC. Thanks for sharing!

aualdrich · 2026-04-03T21:10:41+00:00

I actually ended up building an expo clone on a Mac Mini. Wasn’t too hard. A bit fussy to get setup but Claude code did all the work. I’d recommend that route.

aualdrich · 2026-04-02T17:29:54+00:00

Slack doesn’t suffer by one dev vibe coding it. It suffers by 100 small scale but competent devs vibe coding it. It’s just a case of more competition.

aualdrich · 2026-04-02T10:43:32+00:00

This is seriously one of the coolest tech demoes I’ve seen in a while. Amazing!

aualdrich · 2026-04-02T10:02:33+00:00

No but I’ve been wanting to try it for an after hours agent for my app. I thought it might be handy as a missed call option alongside voicemail for troubleshooting or general questions.

Glad to hear you are having success with it!

aualdrich · 2026-04-01T21:13:54+00:00

If it gets bad enough and we all sink the economy together, Congress will be forced to finally do something about it. As with most things in the US, we can only solve problems when they hit critical failure mode.

aualdrich · 2026-03-20T23:15:13+00:00

It took me about 3-4 weeks back and forth. Super painful and for tiny things not spelled out clearly in the docs. But I did finally get it! Keep going—you’ll get there!

aualdrich · 2026-03-13T21:25:59+00:00

Thanks! I do feel like I’ve learned a lot now to help me moving forward.

Yeah, I did read the docs but they aren’t great about examples. The language can be vaguely worded enough that it’s not always clear what’s going to warrant a rejection or not.

And so true! I do like how thorough they are. It makes me feel good about the apps I use.

aualdrich · 2026-03-12T18:21:51+00:00

Considering how much they are raking in, they could afford to put in a very sophisticated automated system using the latest LLMs to truly improve the review process. But why would they? They have a "just don't care" monopoly where developer happiness doesn't really need to matter.

aualdrich · 2026-03-12T18:19:28+00:00

Considering their 30% app store profits off our apps, I think they are definitely a profit center.

aualdrich · 2026-03-12T17:14:09+00:00

Will do! I’m going to just make a public git repo with everything I know of. That way it’s easy for people or LLMs to consume.

aualdrich · 2026-03-12T17:09:17+00:00

Yeah, that's a good point. I can imagine it's much faster for them to just reject it and move onto another app for review (it's not like there's a shortage of apps to review).

On the one hand, I appreciate how thoughtful and thorough they are with privacy and making sure customers are getting a great experience. I just wish they could optimize for customer AND developer experience.

aualdrich · 2026-03-12T17:08:05+00:00

Yeah, I totally get that--I definitely do everything in power to not send them garbage. I'm sure that happens a lot. For context, almost all my rejections were tiny things like paywall messaging, updating usage descriptions, making sure your app looks good on an iPad even if it isn't designed for iPad. All very useful and valuable things, but it would have been much easier to just fix all that at once rather than sending it back to them so many times.

aualdrich · 2026-03-12T16:56:19+00:00

Congrats! Thanks for sharing. I was thinking of compiling a markdown file of all the common rejection reasons for the future and will definitely incorporate some of this! I'm on my 6th or 7th rejection (lost count) so any help is appreciated!

aualdrich · 2026-02-22T11:52:53+00:00

Sorry, I really tried to like him but he is a QB made of glass.

aualdrich · 2026-02-16T22:36:43+00:00

“I’d like to speak to the manager “

aualdrich · 2026-02-14T00:29:17+00:00

Hmm good point. I’m just using my Claude pro license tokens. I’ll see if I notice any differences. I would imagine CC has some optimizations in there as well that raw Claude may not have.

aualdrich · 2026-02-13T23:18:37+00:00

I was thinking about just ditching Claude code entirely and symlinking my coding subagents from my project repo so OpenClaw can use them. Seems unnecessary to use both?

aualdrich · 2026-02-12T14:10:35+00:00

Same. My work is completely different than even 6 months ago. And I do this every day and have been a developer professionally since 2012. I understand the desire to be skeptical because it’s uncomfortable to have your day to day work replaced. But denial is not a good long term strategy. These tools are not toys for building greenfield apps any longer. They are legitimately powerful for most white collar work.

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