Baloo

A simple Streamlit application to consolidate OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic models into one chat interface. It includes conversation saving/loading, file uploads, image generation, integrated with Firebase Firestore for conversation storage.

But I had to pay for access to this marketplace, only to have an arbitrary barrier put in place that can be paid to pass..

Isn't the whole review system supposed to promote good quality content?

This change, if genuinely implemented to try and improve app quality, actually only frustrates new developers that are trying to join the ecosystem.

20 people is quite a lot! After getting all my friends and family that use Android testing it, I still needed 10+ more 'testers'.

Okay.. but I have to pay $25 to have access to Google Play Console and submit ID documents, it's not really the same as NPM.

This 20 tester requirement also does very little to actually improve quality or stop 'garbage' from being listed.

It's just going to be one person, with 20 cheap devices or maybe even emulators. Even now, I get 20 'testers' but it's just to pass the requirement, pretty much none of them offer useable feedback. It's also a simple little word game, there isn't much to test...

This is probably the path I will go down, should be easier to get the testers if it's already got some users on the web. Still feels a little unfair that as a new dev, I have to jump through these hoops that existing devs and businesses aren't subjected to.

Play store is the de facto marketplace for Android apps, someone looking for a new game or application will often search the Play store...

Yes it began afaik for any new developers joining after November 2023 for any type of application. If you have an account registered as a Play Store developer before Nov 2023, it's not required...

I've seen anywhere between $5 - $50 for a <50mb application.

Maybe they have the highest number of immigrants, but as a percentage of the population other nations are higher and USA is very far down. Canada, Norway, Sweden are all higher... USA isn't even in the top 50 when looking at total % of the population.

Posted this article to r/science, got banned. Great.

Does it still have Roald Dahl's name on it?

"...other foods can also stimulate fructose production in the body and induce features of metabolic syndrome. These include foods that provide the glucose substrate for the polyol pathway, such as high glycemic carbohydrates, and foods that stimulate aldose reductase, such as *salty foods and alcohol*. Umami foods (especially processed *red meats, organ meats, shellfish, and beer* that is rich in yeast extracts) also engage the purine degradation pathway leading to uric acid.

The second more proximate factor has been the dramatic rise in the intake of added sugars that contain fructose and glucose, such as *table sugar (sucrose) and high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS)*."

And...

"Interestingly, *whole fruits tend not to activate this pathway* owing to a relatively low fructose content in individual fruits and the presence of neutralizing factors (such as fiber, vitamin C, potassium, and flavanols) and because the small intestine metabolizes some fructose before it reaches the liver and brain."

So basically processed meats, table sugar & high-fructose corn syrup are bad for you. I'm shocked /s