Today was spent stress testing ChangingRoom Agency and tweaking code under load — the less glamorous side of getting an app launch-ready, but well worth the effort.
The result: ChangingRoom Agency has now passed the same rigorous compliance testing standards Apple and Google apply to app store submissions, even though it deliberately isn't listed on either store. That distinction matters. ChangingRoom Agency skips the app stores by design, so the app-store cut is passed straight back to the customer through lower per-Shoot pricing. But skipping the listing doesn't mean skipping the bar — the platform still has to meet the technical, performance and compliance standards those stores enforce, and today's stress testing confirmed it does.
That combination of full compliance testing and real-world load testing is what's now being called Gold Standard internally: the app holds up under stress, meets the checks both major platforms require, and does it all as a lean PWA with no app-store dependency.
With eight international landmark backgrounds already live and the core batch photography pipeline stress-tested and passing, ChangingRoom Agency is tracking cleanly toward its 1 October launch.