I’ve seen a few that let you fork a repo with all that boilerplate set up and you just have a few stubbed methods to fill out, and that seems reasonable. But going from 0->1 on an app is so much grunt work and I doubt the reviewers would even look into all of it
I would say that's reasonable, although it again sorta depends on the stubbed methods and what you're trying to figure out from them, and I'd question the necessity of the boilerplate - can't you just implement the methods?