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App Story

15 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 9 years ago - ★★★★ - 95 ratings

Vic Hudson talks to other independent developers about bringing their apps from concept to product, and everything in between.

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Episodes

Episode 14: HoursTracker With Carlos Ribas

April 16, 2015 16:23 - 51 minutes - 24.9 MB

Carlos Ribas joins me to discuss his app HoursTracker. We discuss hobbies turned pro, the fact that there is still success on the App Store, iOS widget security considerations,  Watch apps and more!

Episode 13: Wants And Needs With Marco Napoli

January 29, 2015 20:07 - 41 minutes - 21.4 MB

In App Story’s first ever Release Day Special, Marco Napoli joins me to talk about his brand new app Wants And Needs, an app dedicated to helping keep your life balanced and in perspective. We discuss the philosophy behind the app and go into some technical details of it’s implementation, as well as Marco’s thoughts on marketing and important strategies to succeed.

Episode 12: Drafts With Greg Pierce

January 15, 2015 21:09 - 43 minutes - 27 MB

Greg Pierce joins me to talk about creating his app Drafts, iOS app extensibility and automation based on URL Schemes, creating the x-callback-url standard, and the future of iOS App and system extensibility.

Episode 11: Mingle With Sam Ghobril

December 11, 2014 18:29 - 30 minutes

19 year old self taught developer, Sam Ghobril, joins me to discuss creating his action based contact app Mingle, teaching himself to code and being the only coder he knew growing up around his home in Lebanon.

Episode 10: avTag With Simon Wolf

November 27, 2014 21:19 - 41 minutes

Simon Wolf joins me to talk about creating his media tagging and annotation app, avTag. We discuss major redesigns for iOS 7 and dip into marketing woes, and even do a little brainstorming regarding Simon's future plans for the app, and spinning it off to it's own company.

Episode 9: Stand Up! With Jim Biancolo

June 19, 2014 18:08 - 35 minutes - 21.1 MB

Jim Biancolo, half of Raised Square, joins me to talk about creating their first app, Stand Up!, a work break timer for reminding us all that we need to occasionally get up from the desk and move around.

Episode 8: Number Tap With Dean Murphy

June 05, 2014 05:21 - 35 minutes - 21.9 MB

Dean Murphy joins me to discuss creating math challenge game Number Tap. Relatively new to development, Dean used the Corona SDK to build the app and learn programming fundamentals.

Episode 7: Sunlit With Manton Reece

May 22, 2014 16:46 - 33 minutes - 21 MB

Manton Reece, iOS, Mac & web developer, as well as also co-host of popular indie developer podcast, Core Intuition, joins me to talk about developing his photo sharing app/service, Sunlit.

Episode 6: Simple In/Out With Bill Burgess & Brandon Medenwald

May 08, 2014 15:46 - 41 minutes - 25.1 MB

Bill Burgess & Brandon Medenwald, two of the original founders of Simply Made Apps, join me to talk about creating Simple In/Out, and launching their company from it.

Episode 5: Dringend With Josh Garnham

April 24, 2014 12:53 - 27 minutes - 17.1 MB

Josh Garnham joins me to talk about his app Dringend. Dringend is an iOS development environment for the iPad, the lets you create, edit, build and run Xcode Projects right on your iPad.

Episode 4: Unread With Jared Sinclair

April 10, 2014 16:45 - 43 minutes - 21.2 MB

Jared Sinclair Joins me to discuss his wildly popular RSS client Unread. Unread is one of my favorite apps and having Jared on the show was a real pleasure.

Episode 3: Numerical With Andrew J Clark

March 27, 2014 12:09 - 30 minutes - 19.1 MB

Andrew talks about his new update for Numerical and his marketing efforts.

Episode 2: Simbol With Amit Jain

March 16, 2014 17:17 - 28 minutes - 17 MB

Amit Jain tells us the story behind his productivity app, Simbol.

Episode 1: Triangulon With WeyHan Ng

February 26, 2014 21:07 - 35 minutes - 21.5 MB

WeyHan Ng tells us about his iOS game Triangulon

Coming Soon

February 06, 2014 03:22 - 19 seconds - 1.33 MB

My name is Vic Hudson and I'll be your host. I look forward to bringing you the exciting stories behind many apps made by independent developers. Join me, as we meet a new developer in each episode, and learn about how & why they decided to make their app, as well as sharing insights into some of the creative user experience and design decisions that played a role in shaping the apps. This podcast will be launching in February. In the mean time you can follow me on twitter for updates, and ...

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