I went from zero to filed in 11 minutes on the federal side. Amazingly fast. For the state side it's a little more complex (because of Events), but essentially

I went from zero to filed in 11 minutes on the federal side. Amazingly fast. For the state side it's a little more complex (because of Events), but essentially the flow is to wait for the IRS to accept the Direct File first (which took only 2 minutes). Which also meant - holy hell, the IRS has already signed off on my tax return, basically, which kicks off the refund flow. Once that happened, I was invited to continue the data transfer and approve an IRS Oauth-esque flow to send data onwards to FileMyStateTaxes. I assume now that I fixed the snags this time around next year the state side should also only take about 10 more minutes.