{"id":23377,"date":"2018-11-13T15:56:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T20:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=23377"},"modified":"2018-11-15T14:30:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T19:30:01","slug":"hacker-news-zero-rejected-from-the-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/13\/hacker-news-zero-rejected-from-the-app-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacker News Zero Rejected From the App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@mds6058\/my-app-is-dead-in-the-water-93a97a137eff\">Matt Stanford<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rjonesy\/status\/1062362529043804160\">Ryan Jones<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@mds6058\/my-app-is-dead-in-the-water-93a97a137eff\"><p>But then one day, after submitting a small bug fix update, I got an email from Apple. My app had been rejected.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Ok, they&rsquo;ve made themselves clear. Apps can&rsquo;t show any third party links within the app itself. But wait, aren&rsquo;t there hundreds of Hacker News client apps out there that do exactly that? Not to mention clients for other similar services like Reddit, Twitter, etc. This must be a mistake. They are mistaking my app for some sort of RSS feed aggregator or something, right?<\/p>\n<p>Over the next couple of weeks, I sent several replies back and forth the app reviewer, but it was wholly unproductive. Questions like, &ldquo;How is my app different than all the other Hacker News apps out there?&rdquo; were ignored. It felt like I was arguing with a robot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"hacker-news-zero-rejected-from-the-app-store-update-2018-11-15\">Update (2018-11-15): See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=18441179\">Hacker News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Stanford (via Ryan Jones): But then one day, after submitting a small bug fix update, I got an email from Apple. My app had been rejected. [&#8230;] Ok, they&rsquo;ve made themselves clear. Apps can&rsquo;t show any third party links within the app itself. But wait, aren&rsquo;t there hundreds of Hacker News client apps out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-11-13T20:56:59Z","apple_news_api_id":"bc19470d-dbae-4c5a-ba2c-eeb6785ccdac","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-11-15T19:30:04Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AvBlHDduuTFq6LO62eFzNrA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[91,130,31,1610,26,386],"class_list":["post-23377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-appstore","tag-rejection","tag-ios","tag-ios-12","tag-iosapp","tag-mobilesafari"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23389,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23377\/revisions\/23389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}