Capstone: Ship your app
Put it all together: submit your app for review, and plan the post-launch loop that keeps it alive.
Your capstone is not a mockup — it's a real submission. By the end you'll have an app either live on the App Store or in review, built end-to-end with AI as your pair-programmer.
The shipping checklist
- 1Enroll in the Apple Developer Program (if you haven't) and configure automatic signing.
- 2Archive, upload, and confirm the build processes in App Store Connect.
- 3Install via TestFlight and use the app on a real device until nothing obvious is broken.
- 4Complete the full store listing: screenshots, description, privacy policy, App Privacy answers, support URL.
- 5Submit for review. When Apple responds, either celebrate or fix-and-resubmit per the Resolution Center.
The post-launch loop
Shipping v1 is the start, not the finish. The same AI-assisted loop now compounds: real users surface real needs, and each improvement is another turn of describe → generate → verify → ship.
- Read your reviews and crash reports (Xcode Organizer shows crashes from real users). Feed a crash log to your assistant and fix it.
- Pick one improvement from your v2 list — the one users actually ask for — and build it the same way you built v1.
- Ship small, ship often. A steady trickle of updates signals a living app to both users and Apple.
Not just 'how to make DayOne' — you learned the transferable loop of building software with AI: specify precisely, generate, read critically, verify, and ship. Point it at any idea and the process is the same. That's the real credential. Submitting the capstone also earns the formal one: the Certified AI App Builder — iOS certificate (credential IDs look like EDOVA-IOS-2026-XXXX).
Congratulations. You took an idea to the App Store. Now do it again with something only you would build.