I got my tvOS app working without a Mac and I want to help you do it too! I spent like $400 in tokens on this and thousands of Github actions minutes and almost gave up multiple times, so let me save you the headaches and the money. As a homeschool mom of 5 (ages 2-11) I'm hyper aware of all the AI slop out there. I set out to make my kids a slop-free TV experience that I could cater to our homeschool learning goals and my kids' pet projects. We already use the AppleTV for our regular screen time and for our Jellyfin server, so a tvOS app seemed like a natural place for this newbie to start. Wow was I wrong! I do not have a Mac, I've got a raspberry pi and a windows laptop. I burned through GitHub's free 2,000 macOS runner minutes faster than I expected, spent hundreds of dollars in AI tokens, and got fooled by green CI runs that had not actually produced a usable TestFlight build. If you are trying to do this from Windows, the docs get fuzzy right where the expensive mistakes start.…