Under the Radar

231: Support Expectations 23.11.2021 29:53 ↓

Managing customer support, customer expectations, and frequently asked questions.

230: Tackling the Redesign 10.11.2021 29:53 ↓

Finally starting the Overcast redesign, and pragmatic considerations when tackling modernization of older codebases.

229: Money, Time, and M1 Max Macs 27.10.2021 29:23 ↓

A healthy balance for subscription-expiry grace periods, and how the new MacBook Pro helps our development workflows.

228: Ask For Money 14.10.2021 29:35 ↓

Getting over shyness to ask your app's users for money in more prominent and direct ways.

227: Adopting High-Profile iOS Features 29.09.2021 29:41 ↓

How we decide whether, when, and to what degree we should adopt the headlining features of each iOS release.

226: A Quiet Fall 17.09.2021 29:49 ↓

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 01.09.2021 29:38 ↓

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 18.08.2021 29:47 ↓

Needing to offer different features and experiences to different parts of your userbase due to hardware limitations and OS differences.

223: Defaults 04.08.2021 29:46 ↓

The power of default settings and choices, and the impact of changing your app's default behavior.

222: Fingers in the Dam 21.07.2021 29:41 ↓

When fixing a simple visual bug unexpectedly becomes a much larger problem.

221: Optional Fun 07.07.2021 29:58 ↓

How we're spending our summers so far.

220: The Danger Zone 23.06.2021 29:49 ↓

Approaching a change with very, very high stakes.

219: WWDC 2021 09.06.2021 29:53 ↓

The second digital-only WWDC, how iOS 15 and watchOS 8 impact our apps, and what we'll be tackling first this summer.

218: Making the Most of a Virtual WWDC 26.05.2021 29:56 ↓

What to expect from WWDC, how to prepare for the virtual event, and how to follow the material.

217: Feature Regrets 12.05.2021 29:16 ↓

Dealing with features we wish we'd never added.

216: Shark Battle 29.04.2021 29:44 ↓

When big-company maneuvers hit the little fish like us.

215: Group Therapy Session 14.04.2021 29:16 ↓

Forgiving ourselves for a year of greatly reduced productivity.

214: From Subscribe to Follow 01.04.2021 29:38 ↓

WWDC 2021's announcement, and whether Overcast should adopt a terminology change along with Apple and Spotify.

213: A Server Disaster 17.03.2021 27:51 ↓

You should totally run your own servers. It'll be fine! Well, most of the time.

212: A Watchsmith Adventure 03.03.2021 29:49 ↓

A _DavidSmith Story Half-Hour on the surprising journey to build a simple photo complication for Apple Watch. How hard could it be?

211: Logging 18.02.2021 28:45 ↓

Deforestation, timber production, and wood preparation. [taps earpiece] What?… Oh, sorry. Scratch that. Writing lines of text to files for diagnostic purposes.

210: Thinking Like A Business 03.02.2021 29:44 ↓

Trying to remove emotion and assumptions from indie business decision-making.

209: Binary Stars 20.01.2021 29:29 ↓

Copying someone else's work as a learning exercise, and the tricky balance between copying and inspiration.

208: The Road Ahead 06.01.2021 29:17 ↓

The kind of year we expect 2021 to be for Apple-platform developers, and an update on Overcast's SwiftUI progress.

207: Privacy Labels and Analytics 22.12.2020 29:01 ↓

Apple's new privacy labels in the App Store, and how we've designed our custom analytics frameworks for minimal data collection.