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Instead of waiting it out, we launched early access for Bloom on Android and made two funny Anthropic-ad style videos about the situation.
1. "Everyone can build apps now. Just not on iPhone." https://x.com/CreateWithBloom/status/2036072867738071114
"Software is becoming yours. Just not on iOS." https://x.com/CreateWithBloom/status/2036435705438642408
We're sharing this here for a few reasons:
If you're building anything that generates or previews code on iOS, heads up. Guideline 2.5.2 is broad enough that it could apply to a lot of apps beyond vibe coding tools. Worth being aware of.
If you've dealt with sudden App Store rejections that contradicted previous approvals, we'd love to compare notes. We're still figuring out the best way to handle this.
If you think this story is worth sharing, it helps. A repost of the video or blog goes a long way.
Full breakdown on our blog: https://bloom.diy/blog/apple-is-banning-vibecoding-apps-we-r...
Happy to answer any questions about what the review process looked like from our side.
David from Bloom
- OpenAI - Groq - Anthropic - Cohere - Mistral
Check it out: https://github.com/TheFireCo/genkit-plugins
In case y’all want to build on Genkit and want to use models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, Groq, Mistral, etc - we’ve just open-sourced our community plugins here: https://github.com/TheFireCo/genkit-plugins
Some plugins are still in the making, so code contributions are more than welcome!
Let me share a bit more about why and how we're building Giftit:
The problem - it's hard to give both fitting AND surprising gifts.
We've surveyed hundreds of people including our beta testing community and stumbled across the following conundrum:
- 90% of people don't share their wishes unless they're asked
- 75% of people don't know what to get and don't want to ask
This obviously leads to an information gap between gift-givers and receivers which frequently leads to crappy, impersonal, duplicate gifts or no gifts at all.
In the US alone, economist Prof. Waldfogel has estimated that this racks up to a $20B loss which represents the difference in actual value of the gift and the perceived value by the receiver.
Our solution - Giftit's social wishlists and the Sherlock chatbot
- Once you download the free Giftit app on iOS or Android, you'll be able to select any of your contacts (who don't need to be on Giftit)
- Sherlock will then anonymously reach out to this contact on either iMessage or WhatsApp and start chatting with them about their wishes, current interests, etc.
- From the app, you'll be able to see in real time the transcript of the conversation of Sherlock with your contact and get shoppable gift suggestions.
- If Sherlock is not asking something specific you want to know about, you can inject a message into the conversation which will directly show up on the chat app of your contact (e.g. "what's your dress size?")
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I'll be the first to admit that this is definitely not for everyone. I would personally not use this for gifting someone I spend a lot of time around since I typically know what they're into. However, there's a long tail of people in my life like old friends, family, etc that I live far away from and that I'm a bit more clueless on.
If you're someone that doesn't mind asking directly for people's wishes or sharing them without being asked, then this is probably also not for you.
I encourage you all to give it a try and share more feedback