Release Notes is a weekly podcast about building online businesses and financial freedom. We discuss inspiration, design, marketing, promotion, business, trends, and tools – everything but the code. Each week, we cover topics for the new or curious independent developer looking to launch or grow online business. Whether your business is SaaS, desktop software, mobile apps, consulting, or a productized service, here you’ll find tips for success as well as warnings about the pitfalls we’ve encountered along the way. The show is hosted by Charles Perry, owner of RelaNet, and Joe Cieplinski, Creative Director of Bombing Brain Interactive.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 10 days 18 hours 31 minutes
#152: Hey, Why Did My Price Go Up?
On today’s episode we discuss the recent changes with TextExpander and their customers’ response to those changes. We ponder the nature of recurring payments, try to construct a theory of when recurring payments are acceptable to customers,
#151: Our 2.0.1
Tickets for Release Notes 2016 are now on sale, so today we share some of the details of what we have planned for the conference this year. We talk about the venue, travel, the dine around, our partnership with App Camp for Girls,
#150: A 5-Year-Old BMW
After chatting about Joe’s recent speaking engagement at mdevcon, we dive into the recent product announcements Apple made in their town hall event. We discuss the role customer feedback plays in Apple’s products,
#149: Most Press is Good Press
On today’s Release Notes we discuss Press Kits – what format they should take, what to include in them, and how to make them available to the press. We also talk about encouraging the press to write about your product,
#148: A B2B Situation
On today’s show we talk about a new subscription app maintenance service called AppCare which was recently launched by Fifteen Jugglers Software. We go on to consider the role of sales in an app business, lessons iOS and Mac developers could learn abou...
#147: To Quote Spock, I Guess
Today we discuss shipping code. We talk about weighing the bugs and incomplete features that exist towards the end of a project and how we decide whether those problems are significant enough to delay a launch,
#146: Cool, I Got a Sticker!
Today we talk about Just Landed which was recently removed from the App Store by its developer. We use Just Landed as a jumping off point to discuss some of the special challenges that certain App Store categories face,
#145: Do-si-do
Today Joe talks to Charles about his app MetaTax and the change in strategy that Charles is preparing for. We spend some time analyzing the performance of MetaTax, consider some theories for why MetaTax didn’t meet expectations,
#144: I Shipped It, Is What I Did
Today we talk about juggling all the different responsibilities that we have to balance as indies. We discuss the challenges of balancing different roles (such as development, design, and QA) within a project,
#143: Regular Humanitarians (part 2)
Today we continue our conversation about the shutdown of Parse and third-party dependencies in general. We talk about the opportunity costs of running your own backend, about balancing risk and opportunity, and about making contingency plans.