The iOS submission checklist turned into a real, step-by-step sequence rather than a list of blockers, because there's finally an Apple Developer account behind it — the one piece that had been genuinely out of reach until now. Firebase config, an App Store Connect record, a choice between a Mac and a cloud CI for actually building the thing, signing, TestFlight, screenshots, the listing itself. Every step has an owner and an order now.
First time "soon" has an actual date sitting next to it instead.
Two months ago this was a first commit called Labmate, with no plan for a rename, a database migration, or a protocol library, let alone a submission checklist. Most of what actually shipped got there by way of something breaking first — a permission API that lied about what it needed, a keystore password that should never have been readable, an iOS build that would have crashed on the first real phone that opened it, a search index that quietly stopped being real weeks before anyone noticed. None of that is the part worth hiding. It's the actual shape of building something, and it's more honest laid out with real dates on it than compressed into a launch announcement that pretends it was smooth the whole way.