Mobile App Makers
21 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago -The podcast for SaaS CEOs who want to create a mobile app version of their service. You'll learn about everything it takes to make a successful mobile app. You hear experts in fields like security, UX design, recruitment, product design, and more to help you move forward in your mobile app project.
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#19 App monetisation with Steve Young
May 18, 2022 15:00 - 22 minutes - 15.5 MBIf you think that trying to increase your download numbers is the best way to monetize your app, then you’re wrong. Steve P. Young is an app developer and consultant who helps app makers to earn money from their creations. He specializes in unconventional strategies that boost app monetization. Today on the Mobile App Makers podcast, I interview Steve and pick his brains on all things related to app monetization. You’ll learn the counterintuitive app monetization strategies that actually de...
#18: No code app with Justin Halfpenny
December 08, 2021 15:00 - 18 minutes - 12.9 MBOn today’s episode of the Mobile App Makers podcast, I talk no-code mobile apps with the CEO of Caddify, Justin Halfpenny. Caddify is a SAAS company that offers companion apps for physical devices such as cars and household appliances. They offer a platform for other companies to build an app from a spreadsheet, with customizable options to help you launch an app cheaply and quickly, without any developer knowledge. Justin and I discuss the potential of no-code apps, which are a game chang...
#17: Growing an App From the Ground Up with David Eberle
November 23, 2021 07:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MBToday I interview David Eberle, one of the founders of Typewise, the app that set out to redesign how we enter text into our phones. This presented many logistical challenges, from coding a keyboard in many languages to finding a way for the app to nest within other apps and be compatible with Android and Apple software. David and I discuss the story of Typewise, from its inception as a two-person operation to where they are today as a 15-person company. David talks about his hiring process...
#16: Mobile App Testing with Rachael Lovallo
November 08, 2021 23:00 - 20 minutes - 14.1 MBIn today’s episode of the Mobile App Makers podcast, I talk with Rachael Lovallo. Although Rachael stumbled into mobile app testing by accident after completing a degree in mathematics, she has gone on to flourish in the field. She now works as a senior test engineer at Pulsara, a software company in the healthcare industry, and will also give a talk and host a panel at this year’s Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference (PNSQC). Rachael has 10 years of experience in mobile app testing...
#16: Mobile App Testing with Rachael Lovalo
November 08, 2021 23:00 - 20 minutes - 14.1 MBIn today’s episode of the Mobile App Makers podcast, I talk with Rachael Lovalo. Although Rachael stumbled into mobile app testing by accident after completing a degree in mathematics, she has gone on to flourish in the field. She now works as a senior test engineer at Pulsara, a software company in the healthcare industry, and will also give a talk and host a panel at this year’s Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference (PNSQC). Rachael has 10 years of experience in mobile app testing ...
#15: Talking App Stores with Mike Hudson
October 25, 2021 22:00 - 18 minutes - 12.7 MBIn today’s episode of Mobile App Makers, I chat with Mike Hudson about app stores and app distribution. Mike has been involved in many areas of app development for over 15 years, beginning when he was still in school. Mike is now the CEO of GameBake, a game distribution software company that he co-founded. Mike and I discussed how the world of app stores has changed, particularly in light of the recent rulings concerning antitrust lawsuits brought against Apple and the Google Play store. T...
#14: App Store Optimisation with Diana Moura
October 12, 2021 06:00 - 18 minutes - 12.9 MBIn this episode of Mobile App Makers, I have the chance to sit down with the talented Diana Moura, who has built up more than 7 years of expertise in the field of app store optimization (ASO). Diana is the ASO specialist for Kurve, a digital marketing agency and consultancy, where she has created ASO strategies to maximize ROI for her clients’ marketing budget. As she explained to me, even though ASO is crucial to promoting an app, some start-ups don’t put enough time into developing their ...
#13: Monetization with Yoann Deshaies
September 28, 2021 06:00 - 14 minutes - 9.93 MBToday I talk with Yoann Deshaies, a mobile app monetization expert who’s currently working as a product manager at Purchasedly, a company dedicated to building and optimizing in-app subscription funnels for developers and corporations. Yoann has been in the field of apps for a long time, beginning first as a developer and then moving across to roles in-app products, where he aims to understand app user needs. Yoann used to work as a product manager at the popular dating app Happn. He joine...
#12: Lessons learned building a video streaming platform with Olivier Chiabodo
September 14, 2021 06:00 - 26 minutes - 18 MBIn this episode, I interview Olivier Chiabodo CEO at The Explorers about his experience leading and creating the platform and apps for The Explorers. We touch on: His takeaway on building his team How he received the AppTV award from Apple in 2019 How to do video streaming "right" What he learned about handling community submitted content on a video platform What his business model is His plan to reduce the carbon footprint of video streaming =============Bio=============== Olivier ...
#11: Should you build your own backend for your mobile app with Wandrille Pruvot?
August 31, 2021 06:00 - 23 minutes - 16.2 MBIn this episode, I interview Wandrille Pruvot (CEO at XtraLife) about mobile app backends. We touched on: How XtraLife differs from other MBaaS? What are the upsides and downsides of using AWS, Firebase or Azure for your backend? How to know if you should build a custom backend? How does expanding to multiple market impact this decision? =============Bio=============== Wandrille is the CEO of XtraLIfe. XtraLife provides backend as a service for games. He lived in 4 different countries ...
#10: Hiring and training your developer team post COVID with Greg Lhotellier
August 17, 2021 06:00 - 18 minutes - 13 MBIn this episode, I interview Greg Lhotellier about hiring and training during and past the pandemic. We talked about: what has changed in the mobile developer job market with the COVID pandemic how to keep a team cohesive while working remotely why developers mostly self-train. =============Bio=============== Greg has been an iOS developer for 10 years in early-stage startups in Paris and New York. In 2015, shortly after Swift was announced, he started going to lots of iOS meetups and ...
#9: Mobile Application subscription and purchases with Jean François Grang, CEO @ Purchasely
August 02, 2021 22:00 - 27 minutes - 19 MBIn this episode, I interview Jean François Grang, CEO @ Purchasely about mobile app subscriptions. We covered topics such as: why are subscriptions all the rage right now how much effort it takes to implement subscriptions he gave his advice on how to implement subscriptions Is Apple/Google/Amazon's cut from the store worth it How to A/B test paywalls =============Bio=============== Jean François Grang is the CEO of Purchasely. He was one of the first 500 developers on the iPhone SDK ...
#8: Lessons learned while creating a mobile app for poker establishments with Idriss Bellamine
July 20, 2021 04:00 - 27 minutes - 18.9 MBIn this episode, I interviewed Idriss Bellamine about his experience building a mobile app geared toward casinos. He shared some great insights into how he built his development team, how rewriting part of the project is not always the best option, the importance of a great user experience and finally how going international changes a few things. =============Bio=============== Idriss Bellamine is the CEO and cofounder of WeOpt. =============Links============== LinkedIn: https://www.l...
#7: Product design for mobile app in the airline industry with Mike Slone
July 06, 2021 04:00 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MBIn this episode, I interview Mike Slone about product design for mobile apps in the airline industry. We explain what is Customer centricity, how being on the go impacts the expectation of travelers when it comes to mobile apps and how mobile can fit in a company's digital strategy. =============Bio=============== Mike Slone is VP, Principal-Travel Retail at Pros (NYSE: PRO) after the acquisition of Travelaer SAS in August of 2019. Mike has been working in the digital space for 20+ years...
#6: Improve your mobile app security with Sven Schleier and Jeroen Willemsen
June 22, 2021 04:00 - 23 minutes - 16.2 MBIn this episode, I interview Sven Schleier and Jeroen Willemsen about how to drive improvement to your mobile app security, the OWASP Mobile Application Security Verification Standard (MASVS). =============Bio=============== Jeroen Willemsen is a Principal Security Architect at Xebia. Jeroen is more or less a jack of all trades with an interest in infrastructure security, risk management, and application security. With a love for mobile security, he enjoys sharing knowledge on various sec...
#5: UI design for Mobile Apps with Jeremy Paul
June 08, 2021 09:00 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MBIn this episode, I interview Jeremy Paul about UI design for mobile apps. We talked about the difference between UX design and UI design, atomic design and whether you'll want a visual designer who specializes in mobile apps or not. =============Bio=============== Jeremy's job consists of fighting chaos so humans can enjoy using the products he designs. To achieve this, he carefully crafts mobile & web user interfaces with simplicity and consistency in mind, using atomic design — a compone...
#4: Mobile app monetisation with Michael Blood
June 08, 2021 09:00 - 19 minutes - 13.3 MBIn this episode, I talked with Michael Blood about mobile app monetization. We cover topics like how to pick the best monetization, some of the latest trends and when do you have to pay Apple's and Google's cut. =============Bio=============== Michael Blood is a serial entrepreneur and President of Matraex, a software development company located in Boise Idaho. With 20+ years of experience in computer software and developing websites and applications, Michael is a true industry leader and ...
#3: How to build an app customers love with Robi Ganguly
May 11, 2021 07:00 - 23 minutes - 16.2 MBIn this episode, I interview Robi Ganguly about how to make an app that customers love. =============Quotes============ On how to create an app that customer love in the early days of an audio based fitness app: "I'd be focused on: did you get through this like the first step of listening to one of these workouts? Did you do understand it? Did it makes sense what I was trying to get you to do, you know, and if people tell you along the way that it wasn't clear to them or didn't make sense...
#3: How to build an app customers love with Robi Ganguli
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#1: Technology and recruiting for mobile app projects with Maks Mayer
April 25, 2021 18:00 - 23 minutes - 16.3 MBIn this episode, I interview a mobile application developer and specialist recruiter, Maksymilian Majer. Maks and I discussed many aspects of mobile application development, beginning with his experience working with mobile app technologies such as Objective C, the Xamarin framework, Ionic, Cordova, React Native and Flutter. He also had a chance to share his opinions on working with Ionic React versus React Native and Flutter, and which of these he would pick to use for different mobile appl...
#2: Mobile App security: a money game with Anastasiia Voitova
April 25, 2021 18:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBIn this episode, I interview Anastasiia Voitova about mobile security and the trade-offs it involves (cost, user experience, team collaboration). She has some great advice about how much to invest in your project. We talk about early start-up and try to give a good rule about how much to invest in security. =============Bio=============== Anastasiia Voitova, Head of customer solutions, security software engineer at Cossack Labs, is a software engineer with 10+ experience years. She builds...