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Saying goodbye to App Review Times

daveverwer.com

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The actual shutdown blog post is linked from the page:

https://daveverwer.com/blog/saying-goodbye-to-app-review-tim...

It would be nice to see a final graph of review times across the entire span the data was tracked. Luckily there's Archive.org to fulfill that curiosity in some way. Here's 2018:

https://web.archive.org/web/20181202101424/http://appreviewt...

> It would be nice to see a final graph of review times across the entire span the data was tracked. Luckily there's Archive.org to fulfill that curiosity in some way. Here's 2018:

Yes, I considered doing that but didn't have time and just needed to get it shut down in the end. The original shutdown plans included this but then having to actually get all of that organised was delaying it from actually getting shut down :)

As somebody who has maintained free things that are much smaller and less prominent, I salute you. Both for the work, and for shutting it down thoughtfully. Please don't measure yourself against what you might have done! Count instead the people you helped, which sounds like a lot of people.

Thank you :)

Thanks, Dave. Your site helped us understand when we had to submit our app to be live on specific deadlines. Most of the time it was pretty accurate.

But I am glad we no longer need an site like this because Apple improved one of the worst parts of the AppStore (from dev POV).

It was shutdown because it isn’t needed anymore. The review times are usually short and the quality of crowdsourced data is lower because of this.

https://daveverwer.com/blog/saying-goodbye-to-app-review-tim...

That's a great summary! :)

This truly was an awesome service.

Back in the day when I started out dev'ing on iOS, I remember times when it would take up to 4 weeks to get an app out. It was painful, as you'd wait weeks to get a rejection on some simple sub-clause that took 5 mins to fix.

Thanks @daveverwer for this service over all these years! :)

Thanks for the kind words!

Thank you for providing App Review Times for so long. I used (and gave my own results to) this service. I wish you good luck in your next adventure.

Thanks for the kind words!

How about a site that shows how often an App has been purchased?

Tl;Dr: the site shut down because review times are about 1 day now and are stable, so the site isn't useful anymore.

The blog did one of those charming things where it tells you that it'll tell you what you want to know... But after paragraphs of history.

Actually, it's in the first paragraph.

The rest is history.

The second paragraph is:

"Why did the site shut down? I’ll get to that, but let’s start with a little history"

The history wasn't highly relevant to the explanation. Lead with that and if people want to know more they can keep reading.

My word! How shocking! You had to read nearly 800 whole words. You should definitely cancel your subscription. Maybe even ask for a refund.

Seriously, people like you, who whine about free things while contributing nothing, are a real reason people shut down free things. Or don't start them at all. Any time I think about releasing open source code, I go through the calculus of "How many demanding, entitled goofs would I have to deal with?"

The first paragraph only has some of the reason. The rest of the reason is later on. In short, it says the site was doing more harm than good and that good data was getting harder and harder to come by.

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