I’m working on Yomu, an iOS app for reading Japanese text with adjustable furigana.

I’m learning Japanese myself (recently took JLPT N4), and I noticed that full furigana makes me rely on readings instead of actually reading kanji. Yomu lets you hide furigana for kanji up to your level and keep it for harder ones.

It’s offline-first, supports importing text from anywhere, camera OCR, and a fast dictionary.

https://yomuapp.kulman.sk

I managed to create a new Apple id with new email, new phone number, I had to use it on a real device to be able to get through payment. So far so good, lets see if I can actually publish the app.

For anyone interested in testing the app and providing feedback here is a TestFlight link https://testflight.apple.com/join/SHngHsGk

I managed to create a completely new Apple id and get through, if you are interested in testing the app and providing feedback you can join Testlflight beta https://testflight.apple.com/join/SHngHsGk

I bought a new SIM to have a new phone number, create a new email, registered a new Apple ID from a different IP, got to the step where I have to pay for the dev account and all of the cards I used got me an error. Banks saying Apple did not even try charging them.

What do you think is flagged here, your name, or banking info? Name pattern matching seems a bit unlikely/incompetent since sometimes people got identical names. Same phone? Maybe the IMEI part is flagged. Have you tried a residential IP?

Just in case you are on some greater shit-list (maybe by accident, by someone else's doing), I would take a moment to make sure you know how to behave when searched, got nothing too incriminating at home/your car (i.e. illegal drugs), your drives/backups are encrypted and your master password isn't pinned on a post-it. If your existence is bound to local data, make sure to have remote backups anticipating your devices getting confiscated.

> Just in case you are on some greater shit-list (maybe by accident, by someone else's doing)

Unfortunately identity theft is common these days, most people don't even know that they are victims of it.

I bought a new SIM to have a new phone number, create a new email, registered a new Apple ID from a clean VM and different IP, got to the step where I have to pay for the dev account and all of the cards I used got me an error. Banks saying Apple did not even try charging them.

Maybe the VM is the problem - not sure if they let you sign up from emulated osx.

Could be. Long ago I tried to sign up for an Apple Dev account, having bought a cheap used Mac mini just for the purpose, but learned in the process that they were only allowing signups from Intel Macs and not Power PC Macs, much to my chagrin.

Not macOS, Linux to be competently different that my main machine.

That was a decade ago, used on a single project and I kind of doubt Apple would link my Github account to my Apple Id.

If a corporation really doesn't like you, they really don't like you.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/03/31/facial-reco...

very likely they would. have you heard about a corporation named Axiom?

Please do not call me a Russian .. I am Slovak.

Have you considered filing a complaint with your local data protection agency? Perhaps they could escalate your GDPR request.

Thanks for noticing, I fixed the links.

I am in the same situation but in central Europe and looking for a bit more niche position, I am a mobile developer with 10+ years of experience doing iOS.

I have been looking for a job since the middle of the July with not much to show off. I have decreased my salary expectations but that is not the main problem, there are just no jobs to apply to.

For the last 7 years I have been working remotely for various companies inside the EU but it looks to me remote jobs are almost dead now. Everyone wants people back in the office.

My, probably controversial, opinion is that before Covid remote jobs were jobs for the more skilled people, so companies offered them knowing what they will get in return. But during Covid, when everyone worked remotely, some people not doing that that well, the companies just started considering remote jobs not worth it.

Local jobs are almost not existent too here, sometimes there is an opening at a bank but immediately fills in with tens of applications.

Last time I was looking for a new job, in 2022, after 1 month of the search I had 3 offers to choose from; 1 remote EU job and 2 remote local jobs.

Now, after 4 months, the furthest I got was remote EU job where after 5 rounds I was told I made it into top 3 candidates but was not chosen.

I started brushing up on C#/.NET I did over a decade ago as something to switch to, I am definitely not an Apple fanboy to stick to iOS at all costs, but the situation with those kinds of jobs does not look that much better either.

Hugo as a static site generator and hosted on Netlify with a custom domain.