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  •   9 months ago

Many People Misusing RevenueCat Shipathon 2025 to Exploit ElevenLabs and Perplexity

Dear Team,

We have noticed that some individuals are creating fake or duplicate accounts to exploit ElevenLabs and Perplexity services during RevenueCat Shipathon 2025. To prevent misuse and ensure fair distribution, please follow these guidelines carefully:

Verify accounts thoroughly before sending shipkits.

Check for duplicate accounts using the custom domain and other identifying information.

Limit each user to only one account to avoid duplication.

Do not send shipkits to duplicate or suspicious accounts.

Only accept real email addresses from well-known providers such as Gmail, Yahoo, and others.

Flag any accounts that appear to be duplicates for further review.

Thank you for your attention and cooperation in maintaining the integrity of this event.

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  •   •   9 months ago

    I wondered if something like that was happening when I saw the participation numbers skyrocket.
    In the interests of transparency, I have TWO projects going, which are from different corporate entities.

    I know it seems stupidly over-ambitious.

    The reason is that one is a Mac version of a product (Purrticles) which I was planning to cleanup and publish in August anyway. I've had a Mac testbed working all along but it needed a lot of work to make into something shippable (sadly, still no RC paywalls for SwiftUI native macOS and a ton of work on video transcoding).

    The other project had a mid-October target for a martial arts conference I'm attending in November. So both aligned as completely new to store and with the motivation of Shipaton, have considerably upped my goals for them.

    I'm posting this in case some bright spark starts analysing things and wants to accuse me of being a duplicate abuser. I just submitted a Perplexity request from my first ship kit, after the impressive livestream on using it for competitor analysis.

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