Daring FireballMar 24, 2025
‘Tim, Don’t Kill My Vibe’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/03/24/irace-vibe-killing
‘Tim, Don’t Kill My Vibe’

Link to: https://irace.me/vibe

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Show threadThomas Sturm

@daringfireball For what it’s worth, just released an iOS app yesterday, and the app review was single step, no questions - I hadn’t had this happen before.

Maybe they are loosening up a bit?

Mar 24, 2025 at 11:29pmWeb
Show threadNickMar 25, 2025
@tsturm @daringfireball congrats! Link?
Show threadThomas SturmMar 25, 2025
@nickchuckwalter @daringfireball It's nothing super-exciting - I was tired of trying to find a PDF/Text reader app that was not "in-app purchase" or full of ads. So I made one: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/riidaa/id6743688839
‎Riidaa

‎Riidaa is a no-nonsense PDF and text reader. It creates a single bookmark for each new text and keeps track of your last read page. There is no other data being stored and no data transmitted, no in-app purchases.

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Show threadJames ShoebottomMay 11, 2025
@tsturm Thomas. Thx for this. I downloaded it. Love the fact it keeps the page. Something I can’t work out though. I’m in safari and it has opened a pdf document. I choose the share icon but the Riidaa app isn’t an option even if I select Edit. It shows more apps but not Riidaa. Is there something I can do to open it to Riidaa without saving the pdf first plz ?
Show threadThomas SturmMay 11, 2025

@jamesshoebottom First of all, thanks for using the app!

The app doesn't register itself as a PDF reader in the OS, so I guess that's why Safari wouldn't even give it as an option. I would have to look into that to see how to enable that.

But I mostly envisioned this app to work with PDFs that are on-device in the File app, since that was my original use case that I tried to solve. So right now you might have to first download the PDF to open it in Riidaa.

Show threadThomas SturmMay 11, 2025

@jamesshoebottom ...but this is a great suggestion - I'll take a look to see how I can have Riidaa appear as an option as a PDF reader in the Share menu.

Thanks for the feedback!

Show threadJames ShoebottomMay 11, 2025
@tsturm Hi Thomas. Thx. Yeah I thought that the reason but just wanted to check in case I had missed some setting somewhere.
Show threadThomas SturmMay 11, 2025
@jamesshoebottom Sorry for the inconvenience. I've added this as a TODO for the next release.
Show threadDaniel ☀Mar 25, 2025
@tsturm @daringfireball I don’t think so. Some developers are getting their app updates rejected because they allow users to provide their own API keys for third party services. So… that’s not great.
Show threadThomas SturmMar 25, 2025

@danielmunoz @daringfireball Even with some free apps before I ran into review shenanigans, so I was really surprised that this one went so smoothly.

It seems to be really unpredictable.

Show threadDaniel ☀Mar 25, 2025
@tsturm @daringfireball Yes, unpredictable may be a good adjective. That adjective is not good for any business. It is not serious at all. Give us consistent rules that we can follow.