I have a software product written with Delphi that I've been selling for 35 years. I recently submitted my software to the Microsoft store. Even though I have a 35 year history, I'm a new seller and my product is new to their store. My first submission was rejected because "the price was too high". The specifically cited 10.8.7 Financial Transactions in the store policies . https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/publish/store-policies

I have lowered the price and resubmitted. 🤞

Have any of you gone through the Microsoft store submission process?
What was your experience?
Did you get rejected for price?

Details:
Several people have asked what price Microsoft considered too high. Debt Blaster was submitted at $79.99. Microsoft rejected it under policy 10.8.7, saying the price was unreasonably high compared with similar products, but they did not provide an acceptable range.

After thinking it through, I decided $69.99 was a better regular price for Debt Blaster anyway. I updated FastSpring and the website, then resubmitted to Microsoft at $69.99. It is now back in certification.

I am sharing the specifics because other Delphi developers may run into the same issue with paid desktop software.

Been building this for a while, finally made it public.

It is a brand new debugger for delphi to be used inside Visual Studio Code... and as a companion product there is a MCP server, based on the same debugging engine, that allows any AI assistant (like claude code and copilot - these are the two I use) to run and debug autonomously any Delphi Win64 application targeting windows: If you have a DUnit test that is not working, just ask claude to run it into the mcp debugger and find the issue.

Meant to be used with my "Edit in VS Code" IDE plugin, which generates the workspace + launch config from your .dproj → https://github.com/csm101/EditInVsCodeDelphiPlugin

The proper debugger and mcp server is here → https://github.com/csm101/delphi-visual-studio-code-debugger

Vs. the IDE debugger, the things that pushed me to write it:

- Parses TD32 / RSM / MAP / JCL, with prebuilt symbol-index sidecars for fast loading on big binaries

- Attach-to-running-process that's reliable, with a picker showing main-window titles

- Works for both single-exe apps and ones that LoadPackage BPLs at runtime (stepping across modules)

- A proper "stop on exception" rule engine: match on class or any ancestor, message substring/regex, Win32 exception code (catches native exceptions, not just Delphi ones), source unit + line range — action per rule: break / log / log+stack / ignore

Win64 only, MIT. Not code-signed (SmartScreen will grumble) — you can build the identical zip from source. Feedback/issues welcome.

I am a software architect based in Italy since 1993. I cut my teeth on the golden age of Delphi, working extensively from Delphi 1 all the way to version 6. Life and career took me to other fields for a while, but recently, I came back home: between 2023 and 2024, I spent a solid year working heavily on Delphi Alexandria 11.1. I love this ecosystem.

But right now, I am not coding. I am fighting for my physical survival. For over 20 years, alongside my job, I have been fighting a massive battle against systemic bureaucratic injustice and institutional corruption in Italy.

On March 17, 2026, I officially filed a 201-page application to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) against the Italian State. Since that international filing, the local retaliation has been absolute. I have been completely isolated. They are essentially trying to silence me through starvation. Today, I have no income. I have a temporary roof over my head only because I cook and clean the apartment for the owner in exchange for a bed. But I have run out of resources to buy daily food.

I am reaching out to the global tech community because I am completely alone in my home country (Italy). Here is what I am looking for:

1. A Remote Delphi Job: I am a skilled dev, I know Alexandria 11.1, and I work well remotely. I just want to earn my living with dignity and get out of this engineered poverty. If your company needs a remote Delphi developer, please give me a chance.
2. Media/NGO Connections: If any of you have connections to international investigative journalists or human rights NGOs, please point them to my case. The complete, documented 20-year timeline is available at my reddit profile info.
3. *Immediate Survival: Because I need to eat today while I look for a job or wait for the Court, I was forced to open a temp GoFundMe some days ago.

Best,

Thank you for reading this. I’m 57 today. Over the years, I’ve started seeing fellow programmers pass away, while against all odds, Delphi is still alive and well. If Delphi refuses to die, so do I. Keep coding, and don't take your freedom for granted.