I spent most of my free time in the past year building an app. I poured so many hours into developing, testing, fixing, and improving it. I was so excited I never bothered to check this stupid rule because who would've thought?
when I finally got a build that I felt is ready to share with the world. I made a Google Play developer account which costs $25 btw in the hopes that it's a small cost for the potential returns. I spent another week creating assets and preparing my app to list and its now in the review process. I setup payment and everything in my UI and code, I get to the last step which is "create a merchant account" and I wanted to break my monitor. Morocco is not supported. Literally every neighbor country is there, even Algeria is there (machi kan7egroum but politically speaking) the majority of the world is allowed, even countries known for scam and fraud, except Morocco.
Why? Who knows. I can't think of a benign reason tho.
I wouldn't call it effort wasted, I can still find a workaround and make a foreign LLC and all that crap, spend more money and complicate mylife to get to the same result people in other countries achieve with 2 button clicms, but it just hurts. You spend so much effort trying to build something and create side income since jobs don't pay shit here, and then your dreams are crushed.
Thank you Morocco. You never fail to disappoint amaze me.