Gisenau: ChitChattr cut Teams app verification from one month to two days
Hilton Gisenau · Microsoft Launched a Free App That Competes With Ours · Mar 26, 2021 · at 19:53
ChitChattr CEO Hilton Gisenau describes how learning Microsoft's review expectations drastically reduced their app approval timeline.
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“To give you an idea of that, our first app was probably about a month or so of verification backwards and forwards. The last app was on the order of like two days. I think there were two minor things they came back with. We fixed them and resubmitted and we were through.”
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