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App Story

English, Technology, 1 season, 15 episodes, 8 hours, 37 minutes
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Vic Hudson talks to other independent developers about bringing their apps from concept to product, and everything in between.
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Episode 14: HoursTracker With Carlos Ribas

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!
4/16/201551 minutes, 8 seconds
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Episode 13: Wants And Needs With Marco Napoli

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.
1/29/201541 minutes, 17 seconds
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Episode 12: Drafts With Greg Pierce

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.
1/15/201543 minutes, 39 seconds
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Episode 11: Mingle With Sam Ghobril

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.
12/11/201430 minutes, 11 seconds
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Episode 10: avTag With Simon Wolf

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.
11/27/201441 minutes
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Episode 9: Stand Up! With Jim Biancolo

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.
6/19/201435 minutes, 21 seconds
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Episode 8: Number Tap With Dean Murphy

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.
6/5/201435 minutes, 12 seconds
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Episode 7: Sunlit With Manton Reece

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.
5/22/201433 minutes, 57 seconds
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Episode 6: Simple In/Out With Bill Burgess & Brandon Medenwald

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.
5/8/201441 minutes, 11 seconds
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Episode 5: Dringend With Josh Garnham

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.
4/24/201427 minutes, 17 seconds
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Episode 4: Unread With Jared Sinclair

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.
4/10/201443 minutes, 3 seconds
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Episode 3: Numerical With Andrew J Clark

Andrew talks about his new update for Numerical and his marketing efforts.
3/27/201430 minutes
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Episode 2: Simbol With Amit Jain

Amit Jain tells us the story behind his productivity app, Simbol.
3/16/201428 minutes, 38 seconds
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Episode 1: Triangulon With WeyHan Ng

WeyHan Ng tells us about his iOS game Triangulon
2/26/201435 minutes, 25 seconds
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Coming Soon

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 also follow the podcast. If you're a developer interesting in telling your app's story, fill out the form here. Also feel free to check out this little promo clip introduction to the show, myself, and the show's music.
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