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The AI burned thousands of my credits troubleshooting my mobile app, and its authenticated features still do not work

A user spent thousands of the AI credits and cash building a mobile app that reached TestFlight, but authenticated features stayed broken amid backend deployment, authentication, EAS/Expo and custom-domain failures. Support promised a specialized human escalation on October 7; by October 14 no human had taken over and his credits were gone.

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How it works

  1. Build mobile app on the AI
  2. App uploaded to TestFlight
  3. Authenticated features fail
  4. Repeated troubleshooting burns thousands of credits
  5. Backend deployment, auth and domain issues recur
  6. Promised human escalation never happens
  7. Credits exhausted, app still broken

Why it’s worth knowing

The agent's own platform errors consumed the credits meant to fix them, and the promised human rescue never arrived.

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Summarized from a public post on trustpilot.com. See the original ↗

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