Apple should kill the paid charts and focus on surfacing apps that are actually thriving. Because right now? The charts are just a leaderboard for ghost towns. 🚀

I wish paid upfront still worked, but it just doesn’t. And the charts give devs false hope. Paid apps aren’t a flex—they’re a trap if you want a sustainable business.

If an app with fewer than 5 sales can hit the top paid charts, what’s the point? The real winners aren’t on the paid charts—they’re on free downloads & subscriptions. That’s where actual business happens.

The paid charts don’t reflect success, quality, or sustainability. They’re a relic from an old App Store era. Apple should just get rid of them—they’re misleading at best and completely useless at worst.

When my app, Chippy Tools, was paid upfront, I was routinely in the top paid apps. Thought I was killing it. But the day I switched to free-to-download with a subscription, revenue went up 10x overnight.

I wish this wasn’t the case. Paid upfront is so much simpler for developers—no subscriptions, no in-app purchases, just a fair price for a good product. But reality doesn’t care about simplicity.

I would be very interested to know more about your approach to outsourcing. Have you written about it anywhere?

Imperial you need to first do a bunch of parsing before you can do anything with a computer and those numbers

You are assuming that America leads how materials are developed for other countries. This is not the case, we use other sizes.

Have you ever tried maths with fractions of an inch? Metric we just take our numbers and do what we need to.

I thought it did you just need to manually make the DMARC record.

Fastmail is quite reasonably priced and the are headquartered in Melbourne

In terms of why Fastmail, I have simply found that FM is more configurable and less complex. I have used Google Workspace, O365 and Zoho and keep coming back.

For instance some business security applications will simply block new domains for a period, to discourage phishing.

If you are looking for simply support emails going straight from Google Workspace there should be no need for the subdomain.

Email blocks occur for a number of reasons, SPF miss alignment, DKIM not being setup, then they look at the sending ip and the content of the email. There are known blacklists, some not all email providers will use domain and the age of it in this as well.

Usually subdomains are used when a third party (i.e. not your main email provider is used) is used to send email. This allows these services to simplify their setup.

I had a new domain a few months ago, sending from Fastmail, it took a few weeks before O365 accepted the emails.

The other thing to do is make sure you are getting DMARC reports, @cloudflare.social make these easy to collate and read, if you are already using CF.

Subdomain always for support. If you are using a new domain completely, I would look to respond from the email you were using and the cc in the new email for a few weeks. Email systems need to see the email domain you are sending from.

Twitter a few years ago