News:yc was rejected from the App Store

On the other hand, there are several nice Hacker News apps for Android. Even better, if they were needlessly and rudely rejected as this app was, it would be trivial to install them anyway (except for AT&T phones). Once again, Apple shows that if you develop for iOS, you run the very real risk of your hard work being for nothing. How many apps have to get rejected before people realize this?

How about some screenshots of what your app looks like? There could be very simple changes that you need to make to get it accepted.

If you're not going to be on the app store any time soon, those of us who have not chosen to pay the $99 to compile code for the devices we own might really appreciate an ipa.<p>I completely understand if you'd rather wait and see if you can get revenue from it before making that choice, but just know that you do have an eager and ready audience if you decide to pursue other means of distribution.

Your app does look like a step up from vanilla form field entry in mobile safari. It is about as basic an app as one can make, though. After reading your reference to Flipboard I was expecting an innovative user experience, though. Instead it's widgets straight off the palette in IB, but orange.<p>Have you considered something more ambitious on the UI front?

Yes, please appeal.<p>I use one of the existing (paid) HN apps, it has less functionality than yours, and, bonus, yours includes source code, so if something annoys me I can fix it myself.<p>I started writing my own, but now that seems kind of redundant :)

Maybe you could contact PG and see if he'd be willing to partner with you on it? Then it becomes an "official" app rather than an aggregator. Best of luck either way.

How do you use telekinesis?