SessionClick’s second backlog feature: a per-song beat limit that turns the click into an intro count-in — 32 beats, then silence, and the band plays on. Why the countdown lives in the UI instead of the audio engine, how the last beat still rings out cleanly, and two touches that came straight from playing with it on a real phone.
SessionClick’s first post-infrastructure feature: per-song ×2/×3 subdivisions for slow ballads and 6/8 grooves — click and flash at double or triple the beat without faking the tempo. The safety net earned its keep, the schema survived its first change, and a real-device test rewrote the BPM limits in ways no emulator could have.
The infrastructure phase is done. Two days took SessionClick from ‘releasing is a click-odyssey through two consoles’ to one-command releases on both stores, a monthly report with real download numbers, and UI smoke tests on Android and iOS — with an AI agent doing the work and me holding the credentials. Every failure along the way became documentation.
SessionClick is live on both stores, and I have a feature list itching to be built. Before touching it, I’m spending a few sessions on something less glamorous: documentation that survives months-long pauses, tests that pin the invariants, CI, a lint gate — an agentic development loop that lets me (and my AI tools) pick the project up cold.
Yesterday’s resubmission got approved — SessionClick is live on the App Store, so it’s now a real dual-platform app. That triggered an overdue pass on sessionclick.com: an App Store badge, a privacy policy that admits iOS exists, and a redesign from dim-and-dated to bright-and-modern.
Apple rejected the app under 2.5.4 — ‘unable to play audio in the background’ — but the code was right all along; the reviewer just never pressed Play. Plus a sneaky sequel to yesterday’s edit-mode fix: the invariant broke the moment you backgrounded the app.
The app came back rejected for an unresponsive IAP button. Tracking it down led through four separate bugs in the purchase flow, plus a handful of smaller fixes: edit mode not exiting on play, background audio sync, and a haptics regression on iPhone 15 Pro.
A full day of iOS feature work — tap tempo, playlist management, export/import, library editing, StoreKit IAP — ending with a successful TestFlight submission and a real test purchase.
A full rework of the iOS main screen: a proper two-panel layout that adapts to portrait and landscape, a redesigned controls section, and a more stage-friendly playlist.
A small but meaningful update: the free tier now allows 50 songs and 5 playlists. Plus a Compose LaunchedEffect fix for a BPM sync issue when adding the first song to a new playlist. And some notes on getting back up to speed on a new Mac.