Launch, Legal and Visibility
Ship Your App: App Store, Google Play & Legal Guide
App Store submission, Google Play, domains, privacy policy, trademark, ASO, GDPR and a launch checklist.
Guide 03 of the React Native + Django series. Instant PDF download.
Written while shipping, not after
You can build a genuinely good app and still get rejected because your privacy policy URL returns a 404. You can spend months on a product and lose the name to someone who filed a trademark first. This guide covers everything that happens after the code is done — the part most developers put off until it's blocking a launch.
9 things you'll walk away with
Every dependency is pinned and every snippet came out of a real codebase.
- Domain and subdomain architecture mapped out before you move anything
- Privacy policy and Terms of Service — what to disclose based on your specific features, which generators to use, where to host it
- Trademark and copyright — what protection you already have automatically, what needs a USPTO filing, TM vs ® symbols, and when international actually matters
- Your marketing page — what Apple requires, Netlify deploy in five minutes, Open Graph images for social sharing
- App Store submission — screenshot specs, the TestFlight process, and every common rejection reason with how to avoid it
- Google Play submission — keystore backup (lose it and you lose your app permanently), AAB builds, staged rollout, the Data Safety section
- App Store Optimization — the four levers that move rankings, keyword research tools, and when to prompt for a review
- GDPR and CCPA — what indie apps actually need to do, plus the account deletion endpoint Apple has required since 2022
- A complete pre-launch checklist across infrastructure, legal, marketing, App Store and Google Play
Who this is for
Developers approaching a first launch who'd rather get it right than fix rejections afterward. Nothing here is legal advice — it's the practical version of what an indie developer actually needs to handle.
Get all six instead
Every guide, from first commit to the App Store, the web and automated social posting. 146 pages total.
Other guides
Noah Davison
I'm a software engineer who builds and ships apps on nights and weekends. These guides are what I wish existed while I was doing it: the real architecture, the pinned versions, and the traps that cost me whole evenings. Everything in them runs in production in an app with real users.