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 and a top-secret video orientated one ("Magnum")
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
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162: Lockdown
April 3rd, 2020 | 30 mins 20 secs
With both of us in lockdown on our respective sides of the globe, we discuss how we're adjusting, keeping up with our development projects and think about what lasting good could potentially come from this terribly sad situation.
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161: Happy Thoughts
March 27th, 2020 | 34 mins 51 secs
We hope you're all staying safe and well. With everything going on right now, we decided to take some comfort in the shiney new Apple toys that landed recently, and to indulge ourselves in the details of it all.
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160: I Bumped My Head
March 20th, 2020 | 25 mins 17 secs
Dave Wood returns to the show after taking some time out to recover from a bump to head. We catch up with how Dave is recovering.
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159: Charlie Chapman
March 13th, 2020 | 44 mins 43 secs
With Dave Wood still recovering from a concussion, Charlie Chapman is here to fill in. We chat about gaming, managing side projects around being a parent, how WWDC might turn out and of course, we discuss his fantastic new podcast, Launched.
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158: Baxter Saves the Day
March 6th, 2020 | 58 mins 42 secs
In a suprise turn of events, (Daryl) Baxter joins Dave Nott for an impromptu episode as Dave Wood recovers from a concussion. They discuss the state of the iPad ten years in, whether WWDC will go ahead and how Dave Nott has jerry-rigged a gaming setup out of his 16" MacBook Pro.
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157: Navigating Personal Identity
February 28th, 2020 | 17 mins 13 secs
It's easy to hold on to a personal identity for longer than you should. After a hard nudge from the universe, Dave Wood considers if his has changed since moving to New Zealand and ponders his next app development move.
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156: An Untapped Seam
February 21st, 2020 | 32 mins 16 secs
Dave Wood gets an unexpected upgrade to a Series 5 Apples Watch, which sparks a new Apple Watch app idea. Dave Nott wins a battle with SwiftUI, but was it the right battle to have picked?
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155: Go Back to UIKit?
February 14th, 2020 | 42 mins 11 secs
After another week of frustration, Dave Nott begins to doubt the merits of continuing development with SwiftUI. Would it be easier to down tools and move back to the safety of UIKit to get the job finished?
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154: Is it broken?
February 7th, 2020 | 26 mins 15 secs
Dave Wood is in week 3 of moving his app from paid to freemium, and is beginning to have some regret. He's discovered some confounding factors, and maybe the opportunity is not what he thought it was.
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153: SwiftUI - I Have Feelings...
January 31st, 2020 | 32 mins 12 secs
Both Daves have spent the last week working with SwiftUI. Is it the right technology to choose when starting a new app? Or will we regret jumping in on the new shiny?
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152: Hitting a legal wall, and going Freemium
January 24th, 2020 | 36 mins 56 secs
Dave Nott discovers some upcoming legislation that could have a big impact on an app he's making. Meanwhile Dave Wood catches up with his app's performance since making it free, and where the app is heading next.
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151: The Going Free Trial
January 17th, 2020 | 26 mins 27 secs
Can an app do better in the App Store by moving to a freemium model? Dave Wood is running an experiment with his video mixing app, GoVJ
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150: Raring To Go
January 10th, 2020 | 37 mins 1 sec
After a contemplative festive period, we check back in (after recounting Dave Nott's latest set of USB-C woes) and discuss our plans and direction for 2020.
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149: 2019 In Review
January 3rd, 2020 | 34 mins 45 secs
As we reach the end of 2019, we take a look back at our favourite Apple releases and products from this year, and cast a thought ahead at what may be coming up in 2020.
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148: Losing Your Mojo
December 27th, 2019 | 38 mins 5 secs
Dave Nott is struggling to find a groove with indie app development.
We discuss ways to get new ideas going, minimum viable products, and splitting projects up into manageable chunks to get user feedback sooner rather than later.
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147: MVVM and SwiftUI
December 20th, 2019 | 31 mins 8 secs
Dave Wood has been on an adventure, working out how to architect a new project in SwiftUI. Dave Nott has many questions ...