David's Indie Hacker Journey
In the vast world of app development, encountering hurdles is par for the course. Two big players make the rules and it’s easy to fall into their traps. After my first encounter with Google written on “Exposing myself live and DMCA takedowns”, there was another assault.
Picture this: it’s 2019, and I’m building Tintodo, an events App with scrapped events from Facebook and Eventbrite. But just as I launch the app into the wild, fate intervenes in the form of COVID-19. I innocuously reference the pandemic in Tintodo’s description, just to give a warning about the situation. COVID-19 Apps with misinformation appear in the App Store and Google decides to remove all Apps referencing COVID-19. Et voilà! Another App removed from Google Play Store.
While I can’t say for certain if it was my outcry that spurred action, a few days later, Tintodo was republished. Thankfully I didn’t lose this assault.
