I shipped my first AI iOS app in 24 days. Apple rejected it 4 times. Here's what I learned.

A solo founder's honest recap of building HadaBuddy: 508 commits, 4 Apple rejections, one Gemini API key, and the parts nobody writes about. I started building HadaBuddy on March 28, 2026. I had it live in the App Store 24 days later. I didn't quit my job. I didn't take vacation. I have a full-time engineering role I genuinely love, and HadaBuddy got built in the cracks: weeknights after my kid went to bed, Saturday mornings before the household woke up, the occasional Sunday afternoon wh...