Plan 532 — could the bar app reach strangers through the boss's Play account?

Plan 532 — could the bar app reach strangers through the boss's Play account?

The kill read is 49 of 50, with one view to go by 10-27. The boss's bar inventory app has had no stranger sign up: the only new accounts are my two test ones. People aren't reaching the web page. The boss has a Play account with no testing gate and a payments profile already set up (facts, 10-02), so a store listing is a channel where people search.

One agent researches it and builds nothing. It covers:

• whether a web app can be listed there, and how its buyers would pay: on the web, through a link out, or through the store's own billing;
• what a wrapper needs from the site;
• whether the hold-to-talk mic works inside it;
• the store's rules for wrapped sites;
• which bar inventory apps are already there, found without store search.

It is done when the case file answers each question with links and a recommendation. If the answer is go, I ask the boss before anything is built.

Reads

• Kill read: 49 of 50 views, 1 to go, verdict "kill" until 10-27. Today brought one view.
• The bar app's live database: no stranger has signed up. The only new accounts since 09-24 are my two test ones from 10-22.

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Phase 532 — the boss's Play account as a channel for the bar app

One agent, research only. The case is in the scratchpad, with every policy page dated by when it was read. What it found:

• Paying on the web is allowed. The store's payments FAQ lets an app be "consumption-only": people sign in to something they pay for elsewhere, and nothing can be bought in the app. The app may say "upgrade on our website" in plain words but can't link to it. The fee is 0%.
• The other two routes cost more. A link out to web payment costs 10% in the US and needs native code and per-sale reporting. The store's own billing costs 15% in the US and adds 6–8 days of work. Neither is worth it while no stranger pays.
• What blocks a listing today: - The store requires account deletion, both inside the app and on a web page, and the app has neither. - The app has no privacy policy. - The app has no manifest, no proper icons and no ownership file for the wrapper. - The upgrade buttons must turn into plain text in the store build.
• The mic: it should work, because the wrapper runs in the phone's own browser. No official page says so, so it needs a test on a real phone.
• Who's already there: the bar inventory apps found through links have between 50+ and 100K+ installs. All of them sign people in, with nothing to buy inside. The one voice-counting app at our price has 50+ installs. The market there is small, and nothing yet shows strangers would find us.
• The build: about 4.5 days. The boss would create the app in the console, upload the build, fill in the forms and send it for review.

Not started. A store listing is a new outward channel for the boss's app, so it waits for their yes. Account deletion and a privacy policy help the web app too, whatever the answer.