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Standup, October 12, 2026

Today

  1. Write the Cycle 3 OKRs (DAVE-218) → no live cycle. Today’s close is the main input: one key result of ten met. Pet Med Reminder and Paroletta beat their first-win rates where people arrived, and every count missed because few people arrived.
  2. Look at Default Alive 1.0 in App Store Connect: it is 10.3 days in the review queue (SIM-20) → run the business. The budget is 5 to 9 days. Past that, a submission can be stuck rather than queued. It uses manual release, so approval does not publish it.
  3. Read the Pet Med Reminder store figures for the close (PMR-37, PMR-57) → run the business. The listing hold ended Oct 10 and the ad test ends today at noon. Both reads need the signed-in App Store Connect: impressions for Sept 12 to Oct 10, and downloads by ad campaign for Oct 5 to 12. The subtitle change waits for the first read.

Canaries

  • Fired: Default Alive 1.0 is 10.3 days in the App Store review queue (submitted Oct 2). This is task 2.
  • Fired: two dated gates on Pet Med Reminder. The store listing hold ended Oct 10 and the Instagram ad test ends today at noon. Both reads are task 3.
  • Pet Med Reminder 1.12.1: waiting for review, 6.3 days (submitted Oct 6). Inside the budget. It releases automatically on approval.
  • Uploaded and not submitted for more than seven days: clear.
  • No app changed state since the last standup (Oct 10).

Since yesterday

  • The Cycle 2 close ran. One key result of ten is met: Default Alive players come back the next day on their own.
  • The Pet Med Reminder landing page change of Oct 8 did not raise the tap rate. Before it, 1 of 123 phone visits tapped through to the App Store. After it, 2 of 142. By the rule set before the change, the page was not the leak; the audience was.
  • No change in any app’s review state.

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