253: Motivation Slumps
Feeling unmotivated, inspiration vs. motivation, and techniques to get moving again. Be kind to yourself.
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
252: Apple Watch Ultra
David's experience taking the Apple Watch Ultra into its natural habitat.
251: Be Where Your Customers Are
How our iOS 16 launches went, and what we're focusing on next.
250: From Left Field to the Home Stretch
Last-minute preparations for the imminent launch of iOS 16 and the iPhone 14 series.
249: The Nature of Advertising
Balancing the needs of your customers with your needs as a business.
248: Limits of Indie Life
We don't have the capabilities of larger staffs, and we can't do everything, so we must keep our scope and expectations within the capacity of what one person can do.
247: Different, But Not Worse
Are SwiftUI apps destined to be mediocre, or can we still make great apps? Introducing the famous App Development Pentagon.
246: Hard Forks
Rewriting major parts of your app with aggressive new targets while keeping the old code around for compatibility.
245: Slope of Enlightenment
With the dust settling from WWDC, we have more realistic expectations of the new APIs and can make achievable plans for the summer.
244: WWDC 2022 Special
In this special extended episode, we interview Serenity Caldwell and Andreas Wendker from Apple in the new Developer Center from WWDC 2022.
243: Workplace Christmas
Mentally preparing ourselves for WWDC 2022.
242: Setup Update
An update on our hardware and software setups for development, considering Apple's current lineup.
241: Farewell, Feed Wrangler
The decision to shut down a service, and how to best take care of its customers.
240: File Edit WWDC Window Help
A collection of mini-topics: the WWDC announcement, Phased Release for Automatic Updates, and the value of in-app Help documentation.
239: Overcast Redesign
Considerations that went into the Overcast redesign, and its initial reception.
238: A/B Testing
The benefits and pitfalls of data-driven choices.
237: The Spring Collection
A big update to Widgetsmith, and two developers giving fashion advice.
236: Be A Little Annoying
Our perceived ideals of quality don't always win.
235: Color-Picking
How we choose and manipulate colors as non-designers.
234: Should You Do It?
So you have an idea to make an app. Is it available, is it worthwhile, and will you feel good about doing it? What happens if it works?
233: The Road (Still) Ahead
How our expectations for 2021 panned out, and the kind of work we're planning to do in 2022.
232: SF Symbols
Our icon-design journeys over time have led us to lean heavily into SF Symbols today.
231: Support Expectations
Managing customer support, customer expectations, and frequently asked questions.
230: Tackling the Redesign
Finally starting the Overcast redesign, and pragmatic considerations when tackling modernization of older codebases.
229: Money, Time, and M1 Max Macs
A healthy balance for subscription-expiry grace periods, and how the new MacBook Pro helps our development workflows.
228: Ask For Money
Getting over shyness to ask your app's users for money in more prominent and direct ways.
227: Adopting High-Profile iOS Features
How we decide whether, when, and to what degree we should adopt the headlining features of each iOS release.
226: A Quiet Fall
We were given a reprieve with a lack of new developer-facing features in the iPhone 13 line and Apple Watch Series 7, but with the continuation of the Series 3, we all lose.
225: The Fragmented Future
The effects of legal settlements and regulations on independent iOS developers, and how we can ensure that we still have a place in the scary potential futures that may come.
224: Mr. Day One
Needing to offer different features and experiences to different parts of your userbase due to hardware limitations and OS differences.