Under the Radar
From development and design to marketing and support, Under the Radar is all about independent app development. It's rarely longer than 30 minutes. Hosted by Marco Arment and David Smith.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 326
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
126: Retention
The fast drop-off of typical usage over time, and how to improve our customer-retention rates.
00:29:41 |
Thu 05 Apr 2018
125: Privacy Policies and GDPR
Minimizing the collection and storage of your users' personal data, and high-level strategies to think about in the dawn of the EU's new GDPR law.
00:29:34 |
Thu 29 Mar 2018
124: Sleep++ and Permission Prompts
The development and release of Sleep++ 3.0, and best practices for prompting the user for permission to access iOS-protected data or features.
00:29:43 |
Fri 23 Mar 2018
123: WWDC 2018 Preview, Watch Stats
Whether to sign up for a WWDC 2018 ticket and what to do if you don't get one, and the ramifications of David's latest Apple Watch usage stats.
00:29:06 |
Fri 16 Mar 2018
122: Ten Years of the iPhone SDK
Celebrating the ten-year anniversary of the first iPhone SDK release, imagining alternate timelines that could have been, and remembering what we were doing ten years ago.
00:27:53 |
Thu 08 Mar 2018
121: Fear and Change
Considering the temptation and pitfalls of developing features out of fear of missing an opportunity. Also, how best to communicate changes to customers.
00:27:53 |
Thu 01 Mar 2018
120: Productivity by Inefficiency
Adopting inefficient hacks to save developer time, since hardware is so fast that it's often a worthwhile tradeoff.
00:29:16 |
Fri 23 Feb 2018
119: Second Locations
Considerations for travel, coffeeshops, offices, vacations, and other secondary work setups.
00:29:28 |
Thu 15 Feb 2018
118: Original Research
Tackling complex math, data analysis, or other challenging problems to give your app a competitive advantage.
00:29:25 |
Fri 09 Feb 2018
117: The iMac Pro
Desktops vs. laptops, single vs. multiple monitors, and how we're enjoying our iMac Pros so far.
00:29:29 |
Thu 01 Feb 2018
116: The Going Indie Spreadsheet, Part 2
A two-part crash course in starting an indie business. In part 2, we cover health insurance, retirement planning, professional services, and other common expenses.
00:29:48 |
Thu 25 Jan 2018
115: The Going Indie Spreadsheet, Part 1
A two-part crash course in starting an indie business. In part 1, we cover business entities, taxes, and income.
00:29:40 |
Thu 18 Jan 2018
114: Platform Wish List for 2018
What we're hoping to see from Apple's APIs and developer platforms in 2018.
00:29:39 |
Fri 12 Jan 2018
113: Grading the App Store in 2017
How the App Store's 2017 changes have panned out so far, and our hopes for 2018.
00:29:46 |
Fri 05 Jan 2018
112: Ideal vs. Pragmatic
Being pressured by users or reality into features or choices we don't think we should need to do.
00:28:09 |
Fri 29 Dec 2017
111: Universal Mac Apps?
Considering the potential benefits and ramifications of the rumored unified app framework between macOS and iOS.
00:29:18 |
Thu 21 Dec 2017
110: Workouts++ 2.0 Launch Diary
David keeps a diary of what the day was like while he launched Workouts++ 2.0. It didn't turn out exactly how he'd hoped.
00:29:29 |
Thu 14 Dec 2017
109: Search Ads in Practice
Our experiences and best practices we've found for App Store Search Ads after a year of use, and whether to use the new Search Ads Basic.
00:29:42 |
Fri 08 Dec 2017
108: Punch-List Mode
Getting from when you think it's 99% complete to being actually releasable.
00:29:36 |
Thu 30 Nov 2017
107: Free with Benefits
Possibilities for value when apps don't bring in money directly.
00:29:44 |
Wed 22 Nov 2017
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