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Six Weeks From Empty Repo to the App Store: Building Pulse Gate for RevenueCat's Shipaton 2026

I’m building Pulse Gate: Echo Shift alone, for RevenueCat’s Shipaton 2026 — a one-tap timing puzzle game for iOS, native SwiftUI + SpriteKit, no third-party game engine. First commit was July 6, 2026. The app and its In-App Purchase went into Apple review on August 6, were rejected once, and went live on August 20, 2026. That’s 135 commits, six weeks, one designer/developer, no team.

This isn’t a highlight reel. It’s the three bugs that shaped the build, why RevenueCat wasn’t optional, why the monetization model changed shape twice, and the two things that went wrong after the code was finished — including one App Store rule change that many iOS Shipaton entrants offering paid content are about to run into.

1.1. The mechanic, in one paragraph

You don’t tap a target. A pointer rotates continuously around a central core; tapping locks in an anchor angleat that instant....

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OpenAI’s next big AI model has ‘entered the AGI era’

OpenAI’s next big model is here: GPT-6 Astra. The company calls it a “generational leap in capability” for areas like cybersecurity, professional work, software engineering, science, and computer use. As OpenAI announced earlier this week, it’s also the first model designated as meeting OpenAI’s “critical cybersecurity capability

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Nvidia confirms it is buying Hugging Face for $12.93bn and promises to leave it open

Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for $12.93bn, confirming a deal that had been reported for the past week. The chipmaker is acquiring the platform where much of the open-source AI community stores and shares its models, while promising to leave the platform itself largely unchanged. The price values the

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Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 5

* Product Finder * Headphones Overview Pros/ConsReviewsPrice: $299 The Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 5 is a top-end earbud with the latest hardware and features. With solid sound quality, a user-replaceable battery, and noise cancelation, these are a top contender in the wireless space. – As reviewed by SoundGuys TechSpot Metascore Based on

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US export controls actually helped China iron out tech supply chain 'chokepoints', report finds

* Chinese companies have spent the past four years filling gaps left by US bans * The number of IPOs centered around semiconductors has increased * China is also concentrating on supply chain self-sufficiency New Morgan Stanley data cited in a South China Morning Post report has demonstrated a shift in the companies

1.1. The mechanic, in one paragraph

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OpenAI’s next big AI model has ‘entered the AGI era’

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Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 5

US export controls actually helped China iron out tech supply chain 'chokepoints', report finds