133: Collective Bargaining
The challenge of trying to form a union or other collective action group for developers.
Episodes
Under the Radar
From development and design to marketing and support, Under the Radar is all about independent app development. It's rarely longer than 30 minutes. Hosted by Marco Arment and David Smith.
Episodes
132: Accessibility
Considering accessibility as part of usability, and testing with the most common iOS accessibility APIs.
131: Dot-App and Microsoft's 95%
Whether you need one of the new .app domains, and the ramifications of Microsoft's lower app-store commissions.
130: Lightning Round V
Lessons from Android's success, hot new things from past WWDCs that didn't pan out, and trying to improve or avoid social problems with our apps.
129: Lightning Round IV
Planning out our apps before writing any code, deciding which ideas NOT to pursue, a converged "Marzipan" world, and accessibility.
128: Lightning Round III: Servers
In our third Q&A episode, we address the many questions we received about running servers.
127: Lightning Round II
Our second-ever Q&A episode, including questions on React Native, reusable code vs. duplication, learning beyond Hello World, and the art of packing lightly for travel.
126: Retention
The fast drop-off of typical usage over time, and how to improve our customer-retention rates.
125: Privacy Policies and GDPR
Minimizing the collection and storage of your users' personal data, and high-level strategies to think about in the dawn of the EU's new GDPR law.
124: Sleep++ and Permission Prompts
The development and release of Sleep++ 3.0, and best practices for prompting the user for permission to access iOS-protected data or features.
123: WWDC 2018 Preview, Watch Stats
Whether to sign up for a WWDC 2018 ticket and what to do if you don't get one, and the ramifications of David's latest Apple Watch usage stats.
122: Ten Years of the iPhone SDK
Celebrating the ten-year anniversary of the first iPhone SDK release, imagining alternate timelines that could have been, and remembering what we were doing ten years ago.
121: Fear and Change
Considering the temptation and pitfalls of developing features out of fear of missing an opportunity. Also, how best to communicate changes to customers.
120: Productivity by Inefficiency
Adopting inefficient hacks to save developer time, since hardware is so fast that it's often a worthwhile tradeoff.
119: Second Locations
Considerations for travel, coffeeshops, offices, vacations, and other secondary work setups.
118: Original Research
Tackling complex math, data analysis, or other challenging problems to give your app a competitive advantage.
117: The iMac Pro
Desktops vs. laptops, single vs. multiple monitors, and how we're enjoying our iMac Pros so far.
116: The Going Indie Spreadsheet, Part 2
A two-part crash course in starting an indie business. In part 2, we cover health insurance, retirement planning, professional services, and other common expenses.
115: The Going Indie Spreadsheet, Part 1
A two-part crash course in starting an indie business. In part 1, we cover business entities, taxes, and income.
114: Platform Wish List for 2018
What we're hoping to see from Apple's APIs and developer platforms in 2018.
113: Grading the App Store in 2017
How the App Store's 2017 changes have panned out so far, and our hopes for 2018.
112: Ideal vs. Pragmatic
Being pressured by users or reality into features or choices we don't think we should need to do.
111: Universal Mac Apps?
Considering the potential benefits and ramifications of the rumored unified app framework between macOS and iOS.
110: Workouts++ 2.0 Launch Diary
David keeps a diary of what the day was like while he launched Workouts++ 2.0. It didn't turn out exactly how he'd hoped.
109: Search Ads in Practice
Our experiences and best practices we've found for App Store Search Ads after a year of use, and whether to use the new Search Ads Basic.
108: Punch-List Mode
Getting from when you think it's 99% complete to being actually releasable.
107: Free with Benefits
Possibilities for value when apps don't bring in money directly.
106: Long Projects
Getting through long projects while maintaining motivation and perspective.
105: iPhone X Reality
Rethinking designs now that we have the iPhone X in-hand.
104: Public Beta Testing with Slack
Lessons from Overcast's public beta, and using Slack as a feedback and bug-reporting channel.