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

  • S3E14: Open source the things! 🤘

    October 2nd, 2022  |  Season 3  |  58 mins 3 secs

    TelemetryDeck's Swift Apps are now open sourced šŸŽ‰, whilst Dave has started a new jobby job

  • S3E13: Funemployment 🄳

    September 7th, 2022  |  Season 3  |  46 mins 5 secs

    Dave is debating how to spend his holiday before starting his new jobby job, and Daniel is building a new site for TelemetryDeck šŸ› 

  • S3E12: I've experienced carousal šŸŽ 

    August 16th, 2022  |  Season 3  |  48 mins 51 secs

    A lower baseline of sales starts to form for Dave for GoVJ, meanwhile Daniel is now employed by Telemetry Deck as his company reaches it's next stage

  • S3E11: Post-launch blip šŸ“ˆ

    July 31st, 2022  |  Season 3  |  43 mins 30 secs
    2.0, analytics, app, app store, daniel, deck, funnels, go, govj, indie, jilg, launch, new, post, sales, spike, store, telemetry, telemetrydeck, tql, vj

    Dave talks about his blip of extra sales, after launching GoVJ 2.0.

    Daniel is getting into Funnels, and TelemetryDeck's custom query language (TQL!), and sprucing up some documentation šŸ“–

  • S3E10: Dave has finally released GoVJ 2.0 to the world šŸŽ‰

    July 16th, 2022  |  Season 3  |  51 mins 27 secs

    Releasing 2.0 ! šŸš€

  • S3E9: Excuse my Language!

    July 2nd, 2022  |  Season 3  |  45 mins 22 secs

    Echos of WWDC22, Magical Keyboards, and preparing apps for App Store release. Oh, and our first ever bleep for language šŸ˜…

  • S3E8: Banned from touching my Mac ā›”ļø

    May 31st, 2022  |  Season 3  |  1 hr 10 mins

    Daniel has destroyed his keyboard and is exploring the world of clackety key caps with lots of options. Meanwhile, Dave is resting and recovering and is banned from the use of his Mac, so of course, he's fallen into Mastodon and the Fediverse. Ideas for apps are of course front of his mind.

  • S3E7: Have co-working space will code šŸš²šŸ§‘ā€šŸ’»

    May 15th, 2022  |  Season 3  |  56 mins 23 secs

    A wide ranging episode this time. Dave adds in-app purchases and subscriptions to his app GoVJ, meanwhile Daniel shows off TelemetryDeck's live signal stats, and talks about his new co-working space!

  • S3E6: To test, or not to test? āœ…

    April 15th, 2022  |  Season 3  |  1 hr 13 mins

    Daniel quizzes Dave on how he approaches automated testing in his day-job vs his solo indie app endeavours.

    How much is too much for a solo developer? What's a good depth of testing for different sizes of project and team?

  • S3E5: ProductHunt and TestFlight šŸš€

    March 29th, 2022  |  Season 3  |  39 mins 50 secs

    Daniel launches TelemetryDeck on ProductHunt, learning lessons along the away šŸš€ and Dave has sent GoVJ 2 out to TestFlight, as he starts trying to progress version 2.0 towards release šŸ”œ

  • S3E4: Just keep shipping šŸ›³

    March 13th, 2022  |  Season 3  |  1 hr 3 mins
    2, analytics, daniel, david, deck, go, govj, jilg, macos, magnum, performance, project, query, server, side, swift, swiftui, telemetry, vapor, vj, wood

    Dave has hit a mental block with "Project Magnum", with a lagging ARView... Meanwhile, Daniel has been super productive improving performance in TelemetryDeck

  • S3E3: Will Bishop, building Pestle from a van 🚐

    February 27th, 2022  |  Season 3  |  1 hr 1 min
    app, bishop, chef, daniel, dave, david, develop, developer, development, indie, ios, jilg, macos, pestle, road, swift, van, will, wood

    Daniel and David are joined by Australian special guest Will Bishop. Will is the developer of the cooking and recipes app, Pestle. Will is currently on the road in Australia, travelling by van. He takes time out to catch up with us and tell us all about his apps, lifestyle, and developer journey.

  • S3E2: Asynchronously Awaiting For Review

    February 12th, 2022  |  Season 3  |  1 hr 8 mins
    app, apple, async, await, dev, development, indie, ios, magnum, rtc, server, swift, telemetry, testing, ui, unit, vapor, web, webrtc

    Daniel shares a cautionary tale. We talk about testing, Swift on the Server (Vapor), Async / Await and a little bonus WebRTC!

  • S3E1: WFR Reboot! šŸš€

    January 27th, 2022  |  Season 3  |  48 mins 57 secs

    Join David Gary Wood, and new co-host, Daniel Jilg! We catch up about our development lives, Daniel's recent time split on marketing, and Dave's thoughts around Augmented Reality

  • S2E15: Daryl Baxter

    November 16th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  56 mins 1 sec

    Daryl Baxter joins me on the show to talk about what makes for a good approach for indie developers when reaching out to the press, M1 MacBook Pros, and his new book: The Making Of Tomb Raider!

  • S2E14: David Gary Wood ✨

    October 23rd, 2021  |  Season 2  |  1 hr 20 mins

    The lovely smooth talking Daniel Jilg of TelemetryDeck turns the tables, hosts the Waiting For Review, and interviews me!

    Daniel talks to me about my entry into iOS development. We cover indie development, moving to New Zealand, how I develop and test apps and what I’m shipping next šŸš€