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Friday talk: A progress bar. What for?

In this Friday talk, get to know more about the new progress bar.

The progress bar gives a visual feedback to the user when he launches the app. It tells him that data is being retrieved. This behavior occurs when it is the first time someone launches the app or when you publish an update of your app

There are 2 buttons in the backend in the publication menu : Submit and Publish.

Hitting submit will trigger our compiler to rebuilt your app. Then you'll have to upload your ipa file to Apple and wait for the review. You need to re-built your app each time you want to benefit from the new features of the Beautiful Apps Engine. We improve it every tuesday.

Hitting publish will update you app the easy way. If you add a section, you change your design, well, when you make your app evolve, no need to rebuilt it. It can be updated on the fly.

So, this is why we made the progress bar. It's here to tell the user, hey, updating is in progress. Hold on, fresh content and fresh design are coming.

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The AI Extension Builder now runs on GPT-6 Luna

OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna on September 22, 2026, after GPT-6 Astra, the flagship of the family, earlier the same month. Luna is the smallest of the three. OpenAI describes it as its most efficient model for focused, high-volume tasks, and sells it at half the price of GPT-5.6 Luna, the model it replaces in OpenAI's own line-up.The next morning, we moved the AI Extension Builder to GPT-6 Luna, for every app, on the four moments where a model is at work: understanding your request, writing the code of the section, rewriting it when you ask for a change, and answering the questions you ask about what it built.