My new Mac app was just approved! 🎉



Hey Reader,

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Three things:

1. My new Mac app update was just approved.
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It adds clock, stopwatch, pomodoro, and tabata.
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​Check it out on Mac!

2. Apple featured my Mac app on the App Store so I've had a massive boost in downloads, impressions, and ratings.

  • 4 Million impressions
  • 1,690 downloads

I'm now ranking for a ton of keywords because I localized with AscBuddy (Chrome extension). That was a big win for about 5 minutes of work.

3. OpenAI announced Sol is coming this Thursday. I'll share more details about it tomorrow.

I have early access (today) and had it revamp my UI Testing and manual testing process with my 2nd Mac.

-Paul

P.S. I have a new marketing plan for my apps. I used Fable 5 for this plan, if you want to learn more, just reply (I may share more in a future email).

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