App Ops Desk · Issue #29
App Review rejection triage for solo founders
A rejection is not a personality test. It is a classification problem. Solo founders waste days when they treat every Guideline note like a full rewrite.
One action this week: For your last rejection (or a dry-run scenario), write: class → root cause → fix surface → resubmit notes in five lines before touching code.
Triage classes
- Access: demo account, gated features, location, login wall
- Truth: metadata/screenshots/claims disagree with binary
- Policy: payments, UGC, kids, health, gambling-adjacent
- Quality/crash: reproducible broken path on review hardware
- Capability: entitlement/permission without product justification
Failure modes
- Fixing UI polish when the note is about IAP
- Resubmitting without changing review notes
- Arguing in Resolution Center before a clean reproduce
- Shipping a “quick workaround” that creates a new Guideline issue
Resubmit kit
Rejection class: Root cause: Binary change: Metadata/screenshot change: Review notes delta: Demo path (step-by-step):
Bottom line
Classify first. Fix the class. Document the path. Then resubmit — not the other way around.
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