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Resources for solo shippers
49 free issues, checklists, and a glossary. Jump by symptom when you are on fire.
Recommended order
- Starter brief failure modes
- Day-of-ship + release log
- #5/#7 toolchain lanes
- #6 TF ≠ App Store
- #29 rejection triage
- #34 first 48 hours
Jump by symptom
Full series (#000–#048)
- Starter brief · 7 iOS Release Failures That Waste a Week
- #1 Versioning, build numbers, and release-train chaos
- #2 Privacy answers and SDK creep
- #3 Metadata freeze day
- #4 Rollback discipline after a bad build
- #5 The Xcode 26 SDK floor (and beta discipline)
- #6 TestFlight green is not App Store green
- #7 Xcode 27 beta is a lane, not your ship machine
- #8 Signing and provisioning chaos
- #9 dSYMs and crash symbolication
- #10 Review notes and demo accounts
- #11 CI vs local archive drift
- #12 What’s New is an ops document
- #13 Screenshot and preview ops
- #14 Entitlements and capability creep
- #15 Export compliance without the spiral
- #16 Phased release is not a parachute
- #17 Hotfix trains without thrash
- #18 Privacy nutrition label drift
- #19 StoreKit sandbox ops for solo founders
- #20 Release calendar and quiet hours
- #21 Localization freeze for store and app
- #22 Accessibility smoke before you ship
- #23 App size and download ops
- #24 Push notification release checks
- #25 Universal Links and deep link ops
- #26 Analytics event freeze
- #27 Support readiness is a ship gate
- #28 Secrets and config hygiene at release
- #29 App Review rejection triage for solo founders
- #30 Widgets and extensions need their own ship gate
- #31 watchOS companion lockstep
- #32 Background work release checks
- #33 API keys and rotation before ship
- #34 First 48 hours after release
- #35 A release-candidate test matrix that fits a solo founder
- #36 Feature flags as ship safety, not tech debt theater
- #37 Certificate and profile expiry calendar
- #38 Customer communication when a release goes bad
- #39 Build reproducibility for solo CI
- #40 Metrics that matter in the first week after ship
- #41 A release retrospective template that fits in one page
- #42 One-person release roster for the indie on-call night
- #43 Device-cloud testing without a QA team
- #44 Screenshot ops that survive App Review re-submission
- #45 Release train timing for solo founders
- #46 Triage beta feedback without drowning
- #47 Rollout / rollback decision tree
- #48 Changelog ops: what users actually need to read