✕ RejectedAlready a productScore 4/10⚡ Could be fixed
Formatting
by stephencelis★ 247SwiftLicense: MIT
https://github.com/stephencelis/Formatting ↗What this repo does
A small Swift library that provides type-safe, composable string, number, and date formatting using functional combinators. It helps catch formatting mistakes at compile time and enables reusable formatters for logging and UI text.
Why this was rejected
- ✕It’s a narrow utility library overlapping with Swift’s built-in interpolation/FormatStyle and common formatters, offering little differentiation for a paid product.
- ✕The repo appears inactive and is not structured for a hosted service, making it hard to define a paying buyer or compelling web product within 3 months.
License risk
Low· MIT
MIT permits commercial use, modification, and sale without copyleft obligations.
How it could be fixed
Pivot from a pure library to a commercial developer tool: build an Xcode/SwiftPM plugin and CI service that scans code for unsafe/ambiguous formatting, auto-refactors to safe patterns, enforces team-wide rules, and integrates with PR checks and SonarQube—ship hosted dashboards, org management, and policy-as-code.
Alternative uses
- →Educational examples for functional programming and type-safe APIs in Swift.
- →Internal utility for consistent logging/date formatting across an iOS codebase.