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Sorry, this is long, but wasn't sure where else to write this.
Some friends and I got together in San Diego over a long weekend in 2013 with the idea of creating something (and do some surfing). We had no clue what that might be until we were chatting on the plane trip over.
We ended up thinking it would be cool/fun to create an app that would log and track your relative mood on a daily basis. We wanted to make it dead simple, but well-designed so people might actually use it. It's basically 2 screens: The submission screen and the graph screen. We were going to build in additional functionality after the proof of concept. Hueman was born.
2 things that drove us, it would be anonymous (unless you share your graph online) and totally free.
I've been using it for 8 months, and love it (sure, designing it has something to do with that, but I think I would appreciate it regardless because I think the data is interesting). I've learned a lot about myself, my happiness and the patterns of my mood. It feels like it's really telling in an unbiased way; simply graphing one thing - every day. The longer you use it, the more valuable the data becomes.
We got most everything button-up and sent to the Apple App Store for approval. The fuckers rejected it because they claimed it was "too simple" (we consider simplicity to be uncomplicated - not limited in features and functionality). Bullshit. So many useless simple apps out there - like the one that superimposes a mustache on your photo.
Tinfoil hat time: My thought is Apple is working on a similar concept and are rejecting anything like it until they can integrate it into their hardware. Fucking frustrating.
Anyway, we wrote a response and are sending it around the Internet. Maybe if we can get enough people interested, Apple will allow it. Probably not, but wanted to share it anyway.
Our response:
http://www.huemanapp.com/apple.h…tl;dr- Designed an app, Apple rejected but can't give a good reason, so we wrote a response and are sending it around the Internet to get feedback.