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'Apollo' Reddit App Donating All of Today's Purchase Proceeds to Animal Shelter
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Awesome. I'm trying to do it now but I keep getting an error. I'll try again later and see.Okay I literally emailed Loren Brichter for tips when I was in high school and wanted to get into app development so this comparison might actually make me cry and I'm nowhere near that yet, but I want to be. Thank you so much.
Haha! I didn't even think that if I do this every year the renewal will get donated as well, that's so awesome.
My goal is for it to be a lot more than just the iPhone version running on Apple Silicon. I have an Apple Silicon Developer Transition Kit sitting beside me and hope to have a very nice Mac app.
So awesome to have you aboard! For what it's worth I think the Narwhal developer does this in his spare time, I'm quite fortunate to be able to do it full time so it's probably a lot trickier for him doing it beside a full time job. But I heard he's working on Narwhal 2! But regardless I'm really happy you like Apollo!
I totally see where you're coming from, but the 30% is a small price to pay given that there's no way to do this kind of event otherwise. And in Apple's defense, it would be quite an undertaking to develop some kind of system where developers could give to charities on certain days, because otherwise if the devs didn't post proof like I did, they could just run off with the money. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely think they should, but it's probably not easy.
Tell you what, if you can't figure out how to do it, just donate the same price of whatever you were going to unlock directly to the SPCA here https://www.canadahelps.org/en/pages/apollo-app-2020-spca-fundraiser/ then just DM me on Twitter (@ChristianSelig) with a picture and I'll generate a promo code for that for you to use whenever you want. We're not supposed to "sell" promo codes on the side, but I don't think this qualifies because I'm not making any money off it.
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Yeah that would be a logistical nightmare for me to do, but please feel free to donate to your SPCA, I'm sure they'd appreciate it.
(Not sure if double-posting is allowed on forums so mods please delete/merge if not)
Just wanted to update all you beautiful people and say thank you so much, because of your generosity we managed to raise $42,749.29 for the SPCA!!!
Just wanted to update all you beautiful people and say thank you so much, because of your generosity we managed to raise $42,749.29 for the SPCA!!!
Way to go there, @ChristianSelig: over 50% more than last year's haul.
Hopefully there's going to be beaming smiling faces over there in Nova Scotia SPCA (and some happier pets as well).