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'.

It’s a good point. YouTube for instance doesn’t gatekeep in the same way.

And for sure by no means am I suggesting this is the best way to go about it.

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.

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.

What sort of testing will you get for $50 paying 14 people? Seems rather pointless because no one will take that task seriously

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...

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.

Those countries aren't even in the top 10 of the highest percentage of immigrants.

Countries like Monaco, Bahrain, Qatar, Hong Kong are in the >40% while Canada, Norway, Sweden are all < 20%. The US is 15%. All about the same.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/immigrati...

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

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

Exactly.