raft75
Joined 3 years ago
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Apr 3
Recent submissions
Comment · 3 years ago
My apps are not remunerative enough to justify that.
Comment · 3 years ago
I agree with you. I have updated almost 30 Android apps in these days, only to upgrade the target API, including the useless app that caused my account to be removed.
If I ever get my account back, I will unpublish all my abandoned apps that have no value, and focus on what remains.
Comment · 3 years ago
If you want to make apps for Android, what alternative do you have? If your app isn't in the Google Play Store, it doesn't exist. It's a monopoly.
Comment · 3 years ago
I have made an appeal and am waiting for a response.
Comment · 3 years ago
I'm not sure if it's allowed to create multiple Google Play Developer accounts related to the same person. Even if this is allowed, Google could in such situations close all of them, right? I'd like to hear comments from people who have experience with this.
Comment · 3 years ago
Not "they". He. I'm only person. And yes, I use Unity because it's cross platform. Well, at least it was cross platform, until they closed my Google Play Developer account 2 days ago :-(
Comment · 3 years ago
It was a stupid experiment. A useless app I shoud have unpublished years ago. I used Unity because I'm familiar with Unity and didn't want to deal with Android Studio and native development stuff.
Comment · 3 years ago
I published that damn app a few years ago. I was experimenting with Processing at the time: https://processing.org/
I thought it could be funny to use the javascript version of it https://p5js.org/ in a web page and then wrap it in a Unity app, since Unity was and is the environment I use for making apps.
Yes, I know that Processing can export to Android natively (but not to iOS, by the way)
Being a shitty and useless app that no one use, I should have unpublished it years ago. I have kept it updated all these years because "oh, well, one I day I will improve it, when I have time".
And now this shitty and useless app has caused the destruction of all my other "real" apps. Lesson learned the hard way.
Comment · 3 years ago
I don't know how apkpure.com works.
Are you sure their apks are original? May be they inject their own code and ads?
Comment · 3 years ago
I don't think it's fair to share this info, at least for now.
My appeal to Google is still in process and I can't blame the asset.
May be (I hope so) this is a terrible mistake by Google.
Obviously I have provided the link of the asset in my appeal.
Anyway the app that caused my account to be removed has been published for years, with this asset, without problems.
Comment · 3 years ago
Could you please clarify what you are accusing me of? I have been a reader of Hacker News for years. This is the first time I'm posting because it's the first time I have something interesting to share. What's wrong with this?
Comment · 3 years ago
English is my not native language and I have spent hours writing the article that has "few details".
I was hoping to find some good advices for other members of hacekernews.
Comments like this make me feel even more frustrated.
Comment · 3 years ago
My real name is Raffaele Tasso.
I have written an article on Medium only because I neeeded a place where to write.
I didn't use my real name there because it's a platform that I don't know, and where I really have no interest in writing again.
These are the apps that I have published on App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/it/developer/raffaele-tasso/id1308055...
I would be glad to give you the links to my Google Play apps, but as I have already explained they don't exist anymore.
Comment · 3 years ago
My apps were paid or ad supported with Admob, that is owned by Google. So, in both cases, I was sharing my income with Google.
Comment · 3 years ago
I'm not insane. Making apps is my passion and my side hustle. Until two days ago, I believed that account termination occurred for very serious reasons.
I have appealed and am waiting for a response.