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Nights & Weekends S5: Pivoting, yes pivoting already!
I talked about Platform Risk earlier and here we are already, a little sooner than even I expected. It's only been 3 days since I submitted Playlist Kit to Spotify, so I might be panicking a little bit early, but I was curious what wait times others had experienced after submitting their applications. After a little googling, I landed on this pinned post in the Spotify community. It has been pinned for over a year, first red flag. I started reading the post and replies. During peak periods, it may take longer than six weeks. Second red flag. Okay, that's not promising, but what are peak periods? The thread shares sensible information on how to help get your submission approved, and what to do if it is rejected. Helpful. Unfortunately, if your application is rejected when you resubmit, so back to the end of the line and may have to wait another 6 weeks for another review. This doesn't seem like the best way to clear the pipeline. Since the post has been pinned for a year and has close to 150 replies, I started reading the most recent replies, as they would seem more likely to apply to my situation. Unfortunately, it does appear that reviews are indeed still taking more than the 6 weeks that Spotify posted about a year ago. "The review is taking longer than expected We are currently assessing your use case together with other involved departments resulting in a delay. We apologize for the inconvenience and will reach out to you as soon as possible." -- link This was for an application submitted for review in April. Third red flag. Reading the other posts in the thread, there were many other red flags. While I have no doubt the review for Playlist Kit will be approved, eventually, I don't have the luxury of waiting over 6 weeks for the review to happen. The entire Nights and Weekends season is that long, and I'm we're a couple of weeks in already. So yes, unfortunately it is time to pivot. I came into N&W with 3 ideas that I was thinking about exploring, one down. On to the next idea. If the application does get reviewed in time, I'll be back to complete the season with Playlist Kit, I love the application and will be using it myself during the review process. I can add another 15 Spotify users to the application while it is in "development" status. If you'd like to try it out, hit reply with your Spotify user's email address, and I'll get you added. Tomorrow, I'll share what I'll be building next. Cheers, |
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Mubs A recent tweet by Pieter Levels reminded me of the importance of being a jack of all trades when working on side projects. It's not enough to be able to good build software, there is a lot more to building a good project than the quality of the software, in fact that's probably pretty low on the list. Wrote my thoughts on being a jack of all trades:Mastering the Art of Being a Jack of All Trades Continuing my learning for SEO skills, I recently completed a build challenge run by the team...
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