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
#122: Way Too Intuitive
In this episode we discuss the business implications of the recent Apple Event and announce a partnership between our conference and App Camp for Girls. Conference We’re planning a conference! Release Notes will be held October 21-23,
#121: Eleven Topics
Today we are excited to announce the topics that each of our eleven amazing speakers will be addressing on stage at Release Notes in October. We chose these speakers for Release Notes because of their background and experience in building successful so...
#120: Go Down to Costa Rica
Today we talk about our recent trip to 360|iDev where we both presented. We talk about some of our favorite talks that we witnessed, give overviews of our own talks, and share some of the lessons we learned during our time there.
#119: John Saddington
Today we’re joined by John Saddington, who will be speaking at Release Notes this October. John is the creator of the app Desk, which helps its customers publish to their blogs. John speaks to us today about his background in entrepreneurship,
#118: An Overbloated Monster
Got an idea for an app? When you look in the App Store, chances are you’ll find someone already beat you to it. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that you shouldn’t pursue your idea. Today we discuss under what circumstances it’s wise to take on establ...
#117: Chris Liscio (part 2)
This week we continue our discussion with Chris Liscio about the lessons he’s learned in his ten years as an indie selling products like Capo and FuzzMeasure. We discuss pricing, the Mac App Store, selling to businesses, marketing, and more.
#116: Chris Liscio (part 1)
Chris Liscio is a long-time indie with award winning apps like Capo, Capo touch, and Fuzz Measure, and this October he’ll be joining us on stage at Release Notes. Today Chris joins us on the podcast to talk about his background as an indie,
#115: The Special Sauce is Applied with Tweezers
Today we follow up on last week’s discussion about trials in the App Store, before shifting gears to discuss marketing. What’s ethical? What’s tasteful? Does it matter? How far dare we push our marketing message before we actually start driving custome...
#114: Handing Out Flyers in Dirty Nightclubs
Apple doesn’t make it easy to do free trials of App Store apps, and in at least some cases forbids them by policy. Today we look at free trials, how Joe’s team has implemented them in their new app, what others have done,
#113: The Brains Behind Bombing Brain
A lot of indies work alone, but what happens when you have someone to help share the load? To explore the dynamics of partnerships, we’re joined today by Tim Cochrane and Gene Whitaker, Joe’s business partners in Bombing Brain Interactive.