Waiting For Review

A fortnightly show between two iOS indie developers, David Gary Wood and Daniel Jilg

About the show

The show is a fortnightly catch up between David Gary Wood, and Daniel Jilg!

David is the longtime host of the show, an iOS development coach based in Wellington, New Zealand. His side project applications include GoVJ, and he is currently working on several small projects.

Daniel is an establish independent developer based in the south of Germany. He is the founder of: Telemetry Deck, "Lightweight Analytics That's Not Evil", an analytics service for apps that provides speedy and accurate analytics whilst keeping user's data private and anonymised.

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Episodes

  • S4E5: Reaching your potential… (customers) ! 🤝

    February 18th, 2024  |  Season 4  |  52 mins 20 secs

    We discuss balancing sales/marketing and development... and going where your customers are

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    S4E4: DMA-rama! 🦙

    February 10th, 2024  |  Season 4  |  56 mins 41 secs

    We get into the nitty gritty of the DMA, alternative app stores, and what opportunities and impacts this might mean for the future of development on Apple Platforms!

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    S4E3: Weed-whacking that codebase 🪚

    February 3rd, 2024  |  Season 4  |  55 mins 23 secs

    Daniel has finally found the root casue of his Thorny Data issues in TelemetryDeck's stack 🙌

    Dave is weed-whacking the codebase in GoVJ Original, ahead of getting into development of GoVJ Pro ...

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    S4E2: All The Formats!

    January 27th, 2024  |  Season 4  |  58 mins 56 secs

    Daniel has thorny data again, and we check back in on where the GoVJ Pro landing page has... landed 🛬

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    S4E1: “You suddenly feel quite seen” 🎞️

    January 20th, 2024  |  Season 4  |  58 mins 31 secs

    Dave and Daniel discuss how to balance automated testing, and other good coding practices as an indie, when you're dev team of one...

  • S3E41: Please turn me into a sticker 🏷️

    January 11th, 2024  |  Season 3  |  1 hr 6 mins

    Dave apologises profusely for last episodes's audio quality and his audio interface woes 🥺
    Daniel is absorbed by Kerbal Space Program! 🛸🚀
    And we manage to talk about indie development somewhere in here 😀

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    S3E40: Hoist the Sales! ⛵️

    January 3rd, 2024  |  Season 3  |  1 hr 2 mins

    Dave has been adding nodes to his video engine. Daniel has been refocusing on sales rather than dev, trying to split his time and stay focused on what will fuel new business 💪

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    S3E39: Switching Hats 🎩

    December 29th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  52 mins 54 secs

    📣 TelemetryDeck has passed 3 Billion signals! Dave has added a recording node to his video pipeline! Join us, while we're Waiting For Review 🚀

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    S3E38: An extruded Mac Mini 🏎️

    December 10th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  51 mins 11 secs

    Daniel has a new Desk!
    Dave has an extruded Mac mini!
    GoVJ has a node based development tool!
    TelemetryDeck has a new UI!

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    S3E37: A thorn in my data 🌵

    November 28th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  1 hr 4 mins

    TelemetryDeck had a thorn in it's data... meanwhile Dave has been tweaking GoVJ's subscription pricing, and finding a great balance

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    S3E36: "Boy, I got vision..."

    October 31st, 2023  |  Season 3  |  1 hr 3 mins

    Dave's mic went caboom, and four letter words were said... and Daniel went to a second vision lab ! 😎

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    S3E35: Out of the non-dev cocoon 🦋

    October 9th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  51 mins 8 secs

    Dave is out of his non-dev cocoon, Daniel has been playing with advertising… join us while we’re Waiting for Review 🧑‍💻

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    S3E34: "Gravelly Dan" 🤠

    September 6th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  48 mins 53 secs

    Dave is moving house... and suffering from side-project coding withdrawal 🫨

    Meanwhile, Daniel had a last minute trip to Munich to an Apple Vision Pro laboratory. Taking many types of transport, and arriving fashionably late, he tells us as much about it all as he possibly can 🤫

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    S3E33: Lego Apps 🧱

    August 8th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  52 mins 2 secs

    Dave is applying a modular approach, and breaking out common components in his apps into Swift Packages, a process he's describing as "Lego Apps".

    Daniel is hard at work on the TelemetryDeck's web sdk ⚒️ and has started to advertise TelemetryDeck in places you may have seen 👀

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    S3E32: The AirPod Odyssey 🎧

    July 30th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  1 hr 2 mins

    Daniel has the AirPods of Theseus, TelemetryDeck is gaining web analytics support... Then we discuss the iOS dev community online and recognising less famous devs

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    S3E31: MIDI! 🎹🚀

    July 23rd, 2023  |  Season 3  |  54 mins 45 secs

    Reddit implosion (Goodbye Apollo 😢), Dave has shipped GoVJ's MIDI feature at long last... but had an issue with his CloudKit based remote config 🤦‍♂️