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My first app is getting submitted this week (with #2 about 3 weeks behind it). I've been building spreadsheets and other hacks to manage this, but this looks like a…",{"id":57,"by":58,"text":59},"3038415","keys1234","This should help indies who don't have time to manage their PR. Lemme give it a try.",{"id":61,"by":62,"text":63},"3039297","penetrarthur","Its gonna take me 5 hours to make this app so it suites my needs and one more day to make it usable for everyone. Basically you are selling the time it took you to add all the…",{"value":65,"source":50,"evidence":66},"Indie game and app developers and publishers.",[67,68,72],{"id":57,"by":58,"text":59},{"id":69,"by":70,"text":71},"3039641","benologist","Nice work. Tweeted it to all my game dev followers for you. Generalize it to non-iOS games too - for instance Newgrounds, Kongregate, Armor Games scores and Jay Is Games reviews…",{"id":73,"by":74,"text":75},"3038422","mcobrien","Great idea! 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