Troubleshooting Event Ingestion Issues with cURL and Dashboard Display

I can't get ingesting events with curl to work. I'm doing things exactly as the docs say, and my HTTP request gets this response: {"code":200,"num_records_imported":1,"status":"OK"} implying that it was successful. But no matter what I try, nothing ever appears in the events panel in my dashboard. What am I doing wrong?

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George

Here's a sample curl I've tried (with my project ID and token redacted)

curl --request POST \
     --url 'https://api.mixpanel.com/import?strict=1&project_id=ID' \
     --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --user 'TOKEN:' \
     --json '
[{"event":"recipe_created","properties":{"time":1727771163,"distinct_id":"user-4","$insert_id":"created-recipe-331233"}}]]

I am 100% definitely using the right ID and token. And the request gets this response:

{"code":200,"num_records_imported":1,"status":"OK"}

So why doesn't an event appear in my dashboard?

George
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I have been stuck on this for hours and it is driving me insane