Google made me build the front door
Three rejection rounds from Google's OAuth review forced the landing page that a Reddit stranger and Julia had already prescribed. Free product coaching, enforced.
// trace: where this idea came from
- ↳ video diary @ 6:10 (la exigencia de Google)
- ↳ Seed 25-2: La página principal es el login (la semilla, ahora obligatoria)
- ↳ Entry 22-2: Julia couldn't sign up (la puerta principal, tercera y última llamada)
Google’s brand-verification review has been rejecting Zenota in rounds, and each rejection turned out to be a product improvement wearing a bureaucrat’s costume. Round one: terms of service must be easy to find. Round two: the app’s name has to be recognizable during sign-in. Round three, this morning, the big one: your main page cannot be a login, it has to be a landing page that explains the application ▸ 6:10.
Which is, word for word, seed 25-2. A Reddit stranger said it, Julia said it live in entry 22-2, and now a trillion-dollar company’s review queue says it, with the unique persuasive power of blocking the feature until you comply. On camera, the gratitude is genuine: Google has been pushing the app into being more professional ▸ 5:56.
el tercer aviso vino con enforcement →
The landing page took about three hours: Gemini, screenshots of the existing app for style anchoring, the demo video recorded for Reddit embedded in the page ▸ 6:33. And the verdict after seeing it live at cenota.luarai.com: it completes the product, gives it presence, personality, professionalism ▸ 8:59. With this beta done, the on-camera feeling is “I graduated as a programmer” ▸ 16:42.
landing page build time: ~3 hours
times the advice was ignored before enforcement: 2
For the record, the same episode shows the founder repairing his flip-flops with zip ties rather than buying new ones ▸ 23:31. Necessity on one screen, a professionalizing product on the other. Both true at once; that’s the month we’re in…
// continued in
no entry has continued this idea yet: the arc is still open