Hi monday Marketplace team,
I'm preparing my first app for the marketplace and would like to check it against your published rules before submitting, so I don't take up your reviewers' time unnecessarily.
App: "Sign-off: Item Approvals", App ID 12336968 (developer account: franckelsonds-team)
1. Duplication policy
Your planning guide's "Marketplace Quality and Duplication Policy" says apps that "copy the core functionality of an existing marketplace app" will not be accepted (https://developer.monday.com/apps/docs/monday-app-development-process). My app is an item view for internal approvals. Approvers can be people or whole teams. It runs sequential rounds, each set to "everyone" or "any one". A comment is required to reject or request changes. Files can be attached from the item's Files tab. An Approval status column drives monday automations. It is front-end only, hosted on monday's CDN, with no external backend. I know approval apps already exist (for example Approvals for monday.com and Approval Workflows). Would this be considered a duplicate? If so, what kind of difference would count as "substantially unique"?
2. AI capabilities
The submission form says submissions for apps without AI capabilities will be rejected. Does this apply to all new apps, including item views? Would a sidekick tool feature, for example "show the approvals waiting for me" or "request approval on this item", meet the requirement?
3. How the app was built
I designed the app's structure and reviewed and tested it myself: unit-tested approval logic, versioned storage writes to prevent conflicting edits, input validation and HTML escaping, and several rounds of QA on a live account. The code was written with an AI coding assistant. Your submission guide says apps built primarily with AI-generated "vibe code" are not eligible (https://developer.monday.com/apps/docs/submit-your-app). Is an app built this way eligible? The same question was asked in the developer community on August 6 and hasn't had an answer from the team yet (https://developer-community.monday.com/share-your-app-6/clarification-on-the-no-code-ai-generated-code-eligibility-rule-5340).
Thank you for your help.
Franckelson Duvelson
(monday developer account: franckelsonds-team)