Comment by siva7
Still remember that marketplace from Openai, the gpt store for Chatgpt? They had zero quality control for the apps. They had millions of gpt "apps", 99.99% of them complete garbage. Vibe coding Apps has become so easy nowadays that every idiot and first grader can prompt its way through a store release. Pure spam. I would love to see a marketplace that rejects at least half of all app submissions. Google got lots of backlash on HN for requiring a DUNS number from now on to keep your app on their store - but how do you want to keep those sweatshops and idiots from spamming your store?
Apple already rejects a lot of apps. Half of my submissions are rejected for bullshit reasons (eg. I submitted an app that shows data from health kit, and it was initially rejected for unnecessarily using health kit)
The problem is that they don't do any curation. They should allow all apps on the store, but make a proper search engine. That surfaces good apps and hides shovelware.
But unfortunately they suck at it.