Release Notes

Today we’re joined by Justin Harter, owner of SuperPixel and author of What Does Your Website Do All Day? We talk about how Justin has built a business serving “the vast middle” – successful small businesses that need web, design, and marketing services, but don’t have this talent in-house. We also talk about Justin’s new […]

Today we talk about what’s on our gift lists for 2018. We talk tech, gadgets, travel gear, and even a some cooking equipment. Mailing List Every month there are more great articles and content about the business of Mac and iOS development than we have time to discuss on the show. If you’d like to […]

Today Charles talks to Joe about subcontracting. We talk about the role that subcontracting (as opposed to direct contracting) plays in Joe’s business, how he handles communication with the end client, and the fine line that sometimes must be walked in balancing his relationships with the end client with the contractor that hired him. Mailing […]

Today Charles mines Joe’s experience on how to handle deadbeat clients – those customers that seem happy with the product, but just won’t pay. We talk about how to avoid these sorts of clients to begin with, and steps to take once you have a client in your debt. Joe briefly indulges Charles’ revenge fantasies, […]

Today we talk about Charles’ decision to remove his last app from the App Store. We talk about the background of the decision, the change that made him finally remove the app, and what’s next now that he’s out of the App Store. Mailing List Every month there are more great articles and content about […]

Today we talk about ways to build up enough of a financial “runway” to allow your new business to take off. We talk about ways that both Charles and Joe have used to support our new businesses; Charles’ current strategy of cannibalizing one business to build another; and newer options like Tiny Seed, a newly […]

Joe is joined again today by Ariel Michaeli of Appfigures. They talk about making it easy to consume complex data, tracking the financial performance of subscription-based apps, and Appfigures’ soft-launch strategy for their new product Explorer. Mailing List Every month there are more great articles and content about the business of Mac and iOS development […]

Charles is out sick today, so Joe is joined by Ariel Michaeli of Appfigures. Joe and Ariel talk about how Appfigures got started in the mobile developer financial data space, how Appfigures addresses its customers’ privacy concerns, and Appfigures’ new product “Explorer” which lets Appfigures customers make informed decisions when exploring new markets and new […]

Today we continue our discussion with Joe about the rough road his new app RECaf traveled into this world, Joe’s efforts to fix the problems that occurred, and some of the things he’d do differently next time. Mailing List Every month there are more great articles and content about the business of Mac and iOS […]

We’ve all been there. The difficult launch. Today we talk to Joe about the rough road his new app RECaf traveled into this world, Joe’s efforts to fix the problems that occurred, and some of the things he’d do differently next time. Mailing List Every month there are more great articles and content about the […]

Today we deliver on the promise we made last week by weighing in on the recent event where Apple announced their new fall line up for mobile. We talk about the Apple Watch as your “health guardian,” racing stripes, the iPhone XS, XR, XYZ, and any other letter combinations Apple can invent. Mailing List Every […]

Today we get an update from Joe about his new app RECaf. We talk about beta testing, marketing preparations, subscriptions, and more. Mailing List Every month there are more great articles and content about the business of Mac and iOS development than we have time to discuss on the show. If you’d like to receive […]

Apple has announced that all apps submitted to their App Store must have a privacy policy as of October 2018. With that as background, we talk about privacy policies for mobile apps, websites, and SaaS products. We talk about why they are important for legal reasons and marketing reasons, how to account for third-party integrations […]

Today we talk about two conferences that we recently attended. We spend most of the episode talking about 360iDev which Joe spoke at in Denver, and discuss his talk as well as some of the presentations that he sat in on. We also talk briefly about a conference for accountants that Charles recently spoke at, […]

Today we’re talking about an email promotion that Charles recently ran in support of his RelaNet business. The promotion was an email sent by a professional organization to its membership on behalf of RelaNet. We talk about the approval process, the responses it garnered, and Charles’ follow-up process. Mailing List Every month there are more […]

Today we talk about RECaf, the new caffeine tracking app that Joe is working on. We talk about RECaf, what it will do, where the idea came from, the value of side projects, as well as RECaf’s target market, pricing, and landing page. Mailing List Every month there are more great articles and content about […]

Apple recently started removing apps from individual developers that implement gambling or “simulate a gambling experience. Today we use this development as a starting point for a discussion on mitigating the risk that third-party platforms and dependencies bring to our businesses. Mailing List Every month there are more great articles and content about the business […]

We’re joined again by Mike Taber, founder of Bluetick.io and co-host of the podcast “Startups for the Rest of Us.” Last time we talked to Mike about his start in entrepreneurship. Today we talk to him about his new email follow-up product, Bluetick.io. We talk about how the conception and validation of Bluetick.io differed from […]

Today we’re joined by Mike Taber, founder of Bluetick.io and co-host of the podcast “Startups for the Rest of Us.” We talk to Mike today about some of his background, his start in entrepreneurship, and how he almost founded CompUSA. We also discuss the importance of choosing the right market, “product-founder fit,” and all the […]

Today we talk about top-level domains like .com, .biz, .app, and others. How important is it to get a .com these days? From there, our conversation wanders into the importance of having an SSL certificate for your site, Google’s role in the new .app top-level domain, and we find and purchase a domain for Joe’s […]