Jo Goodall, cofounder of Luna

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August 3, 2023

How to launch your product on the App Store

Apple's App Store has 1.76m apps available. How do you get yours launched there?

The health app for adolescents, luna, launched on Apple’s App Store in November last year. The startup’s cofounder, Jo Goodall, was in charge of getting the first version of the product onto the App Store. 

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Anisah Osman Britton is coauthor of Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup. Follow her on X and LinkedIn

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