5 days till my next submission! Mmmmmmm… I love the way this feels. The product looks good, my work has paid off. Soon, I’ll worry about success failure, but, not today. Today, I bask in the warm glow of ‘almost there’.
Wish I could bottle up this feeling, to use on those … other days.
Gigi
Drink a nice cold beer and chill.
I’ll join you.
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Hah! I can almost imagine an ‘almost there’ drink with a coca-cola font!
Good luck.You should probably start trying to do press releases now If you arent doing it already, not sitting back and relaxing. I think if you build it they wont come unless you get some press or its so good it works on word of mouth alone.
@khanstruct: You have skills!!
Khanstruct, that’s awesome. Though with the text layer, assuming you use photoshop or gimp, I’d set it to overlay, pure white, and duplicate it a few times. Then the condensation could also appear on the writing, to make it even more realistic ;).
@Khan - Love it! I’m gonna post that on my wall! Thank you!
Gigi
I’ve never experienced it, only the hallelujah moment of waking up the next day and realising I don’t have to type today 
Yours > Mine
Do you think Apple cares what kind of apps you release? It took 29 days to approve my app! Maybe it’s the title: “Good Sex, Great Marriage” (link in sig).
Let’s chat on the Showcase thread.
Gigi
all of my submissions have taken 7 days, updates and new apps.
Yeah probably I am sure the big boys will get some priority (they wont have to wait 7 days for a bug fix or something like that).
This one took 8 days for first review. Apple didn’t like verbiage in the audio, so I removed it and resubmitted 4 hours later. After waiting another 8 days, they rejected audio that was verbatim COPY-PASTED from my previous app (approved 3 months prior and still active on the store). That stumped me, but two days later, I resubmitted, and 11 later, they approved it!
Sometimes my fault, sometimes there’s, but either way, … it’s SLOW. “Good Sex, Great Marriage” is a risque title - I had begun to wonder if they were delaying me intentionally. But, they approved it in the end. Hard to say.
Gigi.
Since it seems this app is sort of a training app for a very specific social situation…I don’t really see how you could’ve avoided the title, since both the physical, mental, and emotional connections make up a (healthy) relationship.
Good luck with it! Are you a professional therapist turned indie developer, by any chance?
Software engineer turned game dev turned … “niche indie” (aka quirky goofball)? The Free-To-Buy approach is unique. Whether it’s a good idea, I’ve not decided.
PS - Thanks for the kind words Asvarduil :).
Gigi
This weekend was another ‘Almost There’ period. After a few final tweaks, we submitted to Apple last night. And now … we wait. Khanstruct’s image is still taped to my wall, and it still inspires me.
Thanks Khanstruct!
Gigi
“Almost there” period is the most stressful and exhausting part for me, since it includes lots of marketing and polishing. The best period was watching your icon stepping up in the charts. It’s like watching your baby begins crawling 
“Almost there” is much better than: Why no downloads?..
Yeah, been there done that with my game. Visual Actions is selling well though.