Under the Radar
Under the Radar is a podcast focused on independent app development, covering topics from design and development to marketing and support. Episodes are typically under 30 minutes and are hosted by Marco Arment and David Smith. The show offers insights into the challenges and successes of building and running apps independently.
Episodes
331: Reflection
330: Engaging with Reddit
329: Zero Utilization on Your Brain
328: Five Years of Enough
327: Ready for Distribution
326: Tree-Planting Features
325: Upswing
324: Design Despair
323: The Tidal Wave
322: Requiring iOS 26?
321: WWDC 2025 Aftermath
320: Before the Barrier
319: Unfreezing Your Brain
318: The Forgotten Customer
317: Optimizing for Battery Life
316: Job Security
315: Self-Sufficient Apps
314: Optimism vs. Pessimism
313: What's In Our Circles
312: Our Changing Relationship with Apple
311: The Long Term
310: What's In Our Toolbox: Task Management
309: What's In Our Toolbox: Code Assistance
308: What's In Our Toolbox: Simulators & Source Control
307: What's In Our Toolbox: Code & Design
306: Overcast "Wrapped"
305: Selling Apps
304: Onboarding
303: Raising Prices
302: Artificial Walls
301: Pending Apple Release
300: The Aftermath
299: Mid-Summer Update
298: The Storm
297: The Storm Before The Storm
296: Summer Plans
295: WWDC 2024 Interview
294: WWDC Excitement
293: Butterflies in the Garden
292: You Can Always Come Back Later
291: An Inclusive Mindset
290: Pillar III: Retention
289: Vision Pro Numbers
288: Feelings & Opportunities
287: Pillar II: Monetization
286: First Hire
285: Recreational Computing
284: Pillar I: Acquisition
283: Fifty Roles
282: Revert to Defaults
281: The Weirdest Parties
280: Upstream Decisions
279: Rest and Recovery
278: Unforeseeable Issues
Encountering bugs and feedback that our development and beta testing didn't or couldn't uncover.
277: Go Time
The rush to submit our iOS 17 apps for its general release, and the last window of opportunity to prepare our test devices for last year's OSes.
276: Preparing for iOS 17
Our final plans and preparation for iOS 17's launch, now that we can confidently predict its timing.
275: What's New In This Version
How to communicate new features to new and existing customers — and which features are worth communicating.
274: Does It Work, and How Does It Feel?
Splitting your time between iOS 17 and visionOS development, and tips for attending a visionOS lab.
273: Backpack-Driven Development
The value of exploration and experimentation.
272: Feeling Behind
Examining the constant anxiety of feeling like you're falling "behind" in your app's development.
271: Developer Prospects for visionOS
Our expectations for the visionOS app market when Apple Vision Pro launches next year.
270: WWDC 2023
An interview with Josh Shaffer and Chris Thielen about Swift macros, SwiftData, interactive widgets, and more, recorded at Apple Park during WWDC 2023.
269: Preparing for WWDC 2023
Our annual pre-WWDC episode: practical advice for those attending the event, and how everyone — virtual or in-person — can make the most of the week.
268: Fancy Work
Controlling the urge to over-invest in details that won't proportionally benefit our customers.
267: Don't Run Servers
Modern Apple devices offer incredible power — use it!
266: The Middle Path
We talk ourselves into, and then back out of, hiring more people.
265: Old App, New Subscription
Updating a decade-old app to a new subscription business model, and how the change has performed so far and been received by the existing users.
264: Scaling Support
Strategies for self-help channels in your app to minimize support email.
263: Pedometer++ 5.0
A huge update to Pedometer++ including a complete UI rewrite and significant new features.
262: Managing Change
Taking risks to move an old app forward.
261: A Vacation to the Basement
The benefits of a work-"vacation" and the discipline of shipping.
260: Subscription School
Understanding subscription metrics and the inherent limits they impose.
259: Plans for the Season
Our plans for the first half of this year, which may include the launch of a new platform from Apple.
258: A Less-Cloudy Outlook
Abandoning the CloudKit plan for Overcast in light of new information.
257: Working in Public
How publishing our processes and open-sourcing our code help us build our skills, clarify our thoughts, and produce better outcomes.
256: Optimizing Paywalls
Refining and improving the most boring and rudimentary experiences in our apps, and testing variations on Widgetsmith's paywall.
255: The Discontinuity Principle
Considerations for feature removals in the context of the Overcast website player.
254: New and Different
Reflections on launching a new app that's extremely different from our usual work.
253: Motivation Slumps
Feeling unmotivated, inspiration vs. motivation, and techniques to get moving again.
Be kind to yourself.
252: Apple Watch Ultra
David's experience taking the Apple Watch Ultra into its natural habitat.
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