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
#82: How Many Legs Are We Up To?
WatchKit was recently announced to permit apps to be developed for the Apple Watch, so today we discuss what we got and what business opportunities might now be available to us. We discuss why Joe’s excited for the Apple Watch and Charles isn’t,
#81: We’re Doing a Conference
Today we finally get to announce Release Notes, a conference about the business of iOS and Mac development. Release Notes will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA on October 21-23, 2015, and we hope that you’ll plan to join us.
#80: I’ve Got Some PowerPoints to Sell
Today we take a look at Merchant Consumer Exchange (MCX) and CurrentC, the contactless payment system that is positioned as a competitor to Apple Pay. We use MCX and CurrentC as a lens to examine our own behavior and customer hostile behavior.
#79: Justin Williams (part 2)
We’re joined again this week by Justin Williams to continue our postmortem of Glassboard, the messaging service that he recently shut down. This week we talk about the importance of solving customer problems with your product,
#78: Justin Williams
Understanding why products fail is often just as valuable as knowing why they succeed. To help us with that, we’re joined today by Justin Williams who recently shut down the Glassboard service which he owned.
#77: So Was the Cube
Joe recently returned from speaking at the inaugural CocoaLove, held in his old stomping grounds of Philly. Sadly, Charles wasn’t able to attend, so we use this opportunity to let Joe share his experience at the conference.
#76: James Dempsey
James Dempsey of James Dempsey and the Breakpoints joins us today to talk about his history working at Apple, his transition to life as an indie contractor and trainer and, oh yeah, his new hit album Backtrace.
#75: Figure Out What the iPad Is… Then Tell Us
With stories of declining iPad sales in the headlines, Apple last week announced its refreshed iPad line-up as well as some other new hardware. Today we discuss this event, the absence of a coherent iPad use story from Apple,
#74: Safe and Boring Money
Every year, just like clockwork, Apple releases new features for iOS. And every year, just like clockwork, developers have their apps rejected from the App Store for using these new features in ways that Apple didn’t anticipate. So today,
#73: Convince All My Friends to Buy One
Today we look at the new iPhones, our reaction to them now that we’ve actually held them, and how we think the new display sizes will affect what and how we develop. We consider the nature of the iPhone 6 Plus,