AppBizDev Podcast

Episode 16: Pitch Perfect with Daniel

feedback@appbizdev.com (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich) — Tue, 07 May 2013 23:27:13 PDT

This week we don’t talk about Ben's new Surface Pro, but Alan does some howling about how to make your app stand out from the crowd.

We turn the tables on Daniel Rubino, editor-in-chief of WP Central and interview him on the topic of how to pitch an app to a news site.

We then surf the web with WebApps in the under the radar section.

And finally a loyal fan whose name we butcher wins 250k ad impressions on AdDuplex.

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Show notes

Daniel Rubino interview

WPCentral

Daniel Rubino on Twitter

Under-the-radar app

WebApps

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Facebook liker of the week

Charbel Zaghrini

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Episode 15: James Owns Golf

feedback@appbizdev.com (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich) — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:32:58 PDT

James Vertisan joins Ben and Alan to talk about his success building and promoting his number one golf app on Windows Phone called Shotly (previously known as Executive Caddie).

Also we talk about what it means to be a professional indie developer.

We take a snapshot view at Piktr an already great Instagram app on Windows 8 in the Under the Radar section.

And finally a wonderful human being wins 250k ad impressions on AdDuplex.

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Show notes

How to Make it as a Professional Indie Game Developer

Follow up: Response to "8 keys to indie success"

James Vertisan interview

Under-the-radar app

Piktr for Instagram

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Twitter follower of the week

Ryan Miller @intranoggin

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Episode 14: René Did It All

feedback@appbizdev.com (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich) — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:20:44 PDT

Microsoft Windows Phone MVP, Nokia Developer Champion and community hero René Schulte joins Ben and Alan to share his experience building popular apps.

René Schulte is an internationally recognized, independent expert and was honored for his community work with the Microsoft MVP Award and as Nokia Developer Champion. He blogs about many topics of Windows Phone, .NET and Windows development in general and writes articles. Sometimes he can also be found at various events as a speaker including the Microsoft and Nokia Windows Phone launch events and he takes part as a judge for Mobile Development Contests (Microsoft Imagine Cup, AppCampus, Core77).

René Schulte is a Windows Phone developer since day one and develops highly acclaimed apps such as Pictures Lab, Funny Faces, Face Lens, Helium Voice, Cloud Recorder and more. He combines the advanced algorithms of computer graphics, image processing and computer vision with a great user experience. René Schulte also created and maintains several popular open source libraries for WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone and WinRT, such as WriteableBitmapEx or the Augmented Reality library SLARToolKit.

René Schulte also works for IdentityMine, an outstanding interactive design, software development, and user experience (UX) company.

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Show notes

René Schulte interview

Apps

Pictures Lab

Twitter: @PicturesLab
Facebook: http://facebook.com/PicturesLab
Press Reviews: http://bit.ly/PicturesLabReviews

René on twitter

Under-the-radar app

PlusPoints Pro

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Facebook fan of the week

Rudy Rodarte III

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Episode 13: Jeff Turns Memories into Collages

feedback@appbizdev.com (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich) — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 01:46:41 PDT

Jeffrey Harmon the creator of Memorylage – one of the first apps featured in our Under-the-radar segment (Episode 6) joins Ben & Alan to talk about how he went from releasing his first app ever just few months ago to getting major features in Windows 8 and Windows Phone stores.

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Show notes

Jeffrey Harmon Interview

Under-the-radar app

5 Pics 1 Word

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Twitter follower of the week

LinderMotion

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Episode 12: Marios Builds Monsters Up

feedback@appbizdev.com (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich) — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:06:49 PDT

Marios Karagiannis from Karios Games joins Ben and Alan on the show to talk about his Monster Up and other games, MonoGame, Unity, Amiga, PhD and more.

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This episode is brought to you by Fortumo.

Show notes

TechDays Belgium, TechDays Netherlands
Mobile World Congress
Unity 4 Early Access for Windows Store apps
@joebelfiore: Curious about Unity engine on WP8? Here's the first #WP8 game built on their SDK (beta) http://t.co/9HsERPVhkD
https://twitter.com/joebelfiore/status/311145251777683456

Marios Karagiannis interview

250,000 impressions on AdDuplex go to…

Rod Galanga for feedback and Nikolay Petrov for liking us on Facebook. Congratulations!

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Episode 11: Flurry with Jarah

feedback@appbizdev.com (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich) — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 03:58:15 PST

This week we go deep about price changes and how to be profitable with in-app purchase.

We also interview Jarah Euston - Director of Analytics from Flurry. And she surprises us with some good news about how Windows Phone is doing.

We put some coins in the Slot Machine and come up a winner in the Under the Radar section

And finally a cloud-based lifeform wins 250k ad impressions on AdDuplex.

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Show notes

Banter

News

Interview with Jarah Euston

Under-the-radar app – Slot Machine

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Twitter follower of the week

@darrix. Congrats!

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Episode 10: MarkedUp Aaron

feedback@appbizdev.com (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich) — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:44:57 PST

Aaron Stannard talks to the guys about his analytics startup MarkedUp, metrics and app stores in general.

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Show notes

Banter

AdDuplex Turns 2! – get 2X more impressions and an extra 30% off using coupon code APPBIZDEV2

News

Aaron Stannard Interview

MarkedUp

Under-the-radar app

No under the radar app this week! Send us a link to your app and what you did to promote it or improve monetization, user retention, etc. to feedback@appbizdev.com and get featured on the show + 250,000 ad impressions on AdDuplex.

Facebook friend of the week

Rich Hopkins. Congrats!

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Episode 9: Joakim Knows His Metrics

feedback@appbizdev.com (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich) — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:25:04 PST

Joakim Achrén was instrumental in the success of the recent superstar iOS game company called Supercell. He shares his experience implementing analytics to measure the success (or lack of) of your games and apps.

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Show notes

New jingle by Gerai Gerai

Orai – Lithuanian weather app

Codemash

News

2ND APPCAMPUS -FUNDED APP IS OUT

HERDING CODE 154 – AARON STANNARD ON MARKEDUP, FOUNDING A STARTUP, AND WINDOWS 8 DEVELOPMENT

Interview

Under-the-radar app: The Next Line

The Next Line in Windows Phone Store

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Twitter follower of the week

Manuel Alvarado @zBuLe

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Episode 8: Atta + Tweetro + MetroTube + Drama

feedback@appbizdev.com (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich) — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 01:03:01 PST

Atta Elayyan from LazyWormApps – creators of 2 iconic apps for Windows Phone and Windows 8 (MetroTube and Tweetro+) – has joined Ben and Alan on the podcast to talk about all the drama they went through developing apps for 3rd party platforms and the effect that had on their business strategy.

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News

Great Big War Game made £52 in a week on Windows RT, while iOS and Android versions made thousands

Follow up: War is over: Developer 'shitstorm' results in big push by Microsoft for Great Big War Game

Atta Elayyan interview

LazyWormApps

Tweetro

Under-the-radar app

quiz4couples

quiz4couples in Windows Phone store

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Episode 7: Chanse unpacks Nokia

feedback@appbizdev.com (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich) — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 01:03:22 PST

Chanse Arrington Head of Developer & Content Marketing for Nokia joins the show to cover a myriad of programs Nokia runs to support, encourage and reward Windows Phone developers.

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Show notes

News

Chanse Arrington interview

Nokia Premium Developer (video)
DVLUP

Under-the-radar app

No under-the-radar app this week. Send us information about your published app and what you did to promote it and we may feature it on the show. And if we do you will also get 250,000 free ad impressions on AdDuplex.

Episode 6: Matt runs WPUG

feedback@appbizdev.com (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich) — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:39:45 PST

Matt Lacey – the leader of Windows Phone User Group in London joins Ben and Alan to talk about his user group and how it could help you improve as a developer, meet other like-minded people and learn from others on how to improve your chances in the store.

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Show notes

News

Matt Lacey Interview

Under-the-radar app: Memorylage

Episode 5: Elbert Perez and BUILD

feedback@appbizdev.com (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich) — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 05:02:47 PST

Ben and Alan meet for the first in-person episode and are joined by one of the most prolific Windows Phone game developers – Elbert Perez.

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Show notes

News

Elbert Perez interview

Episode 4: Analyzing Distimo

feedback@appbizdev.com (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich) — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 04:02:53 PDT

This time Ben and Alan are joined by Remco van den Elzen and Hendrik Koekkoek from Distimo – a company making app space transparent by providing the best and most actionable insights for anyone who wants to compete in the app market.

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Show notes

News

Strategy Letter V

Distimo interview

Under-the-radar app

Funny Faces

Episode 3: Gergely and Simon rotate some ads

feedback@appbizdev.com (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich) — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 00:07:26 PDT

In this episode Ben and Alan sit down with Gergely Orosz and Simon Jackson to talk about their open source project Ad Rotator which helps developers maximize the performance of the ad space in their apps.

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Show notes

News

Ad Rotator interview

Ad Rotator for Windows & Windows Phone on CodePlex
Gergely Orosz
- Blog
- Twitter: @gergelyorosz
- Team Distinction
Simon Jackson
- Blog
- Twitter: @SimonDarksideJ

Under-the-radar app

Episode 2: Second to none

feedback@appbizdev.com (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich) — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 23:22:51 PDT

In this episode Ben Riga joins as the lead host of the AppBizDev podcast and together we interview Paolo Borella – director of AppCampus – a program to help developers finance their awesome Windows Phone app development.

We also discuss a couple of news items and introduce a new section called “Under-the-radar app”.

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Show notes

News

AppCampus interview

Under-the-radar app

Episode 1: The First and The Worst

feedback@appbizdev.com (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich) — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:35:08 PDT

Welcome to the first episode of AppBizDev Podcast! This is a bi-weekly podcast about Windows Phone and Windows 8 app marketing, funding and monetization.

My name is Alan Mendelevich and I’m a temp lead host for the podcast. Hopefully by the next show we will have a new lead host and you will be able to enjoy a nice voice with correct English.

Are you interested in apps as a business? Are you a native English speaker? Do you want to be the lead host of this podcast? Don’t hesitate and contact me at feedback@appbizdev.com and hopefully you’ll be on the air in 2 weeks.

The file is here: AppBizDev Podcast – Episode 1: The First and The Worst.

And don’t forget to subscribe to the RSS feed to get the next, much better episode.

Please let me know what you think about the idea of the show, subjects you are interested in, people you want us to interview, etc. Use the comments below or email to feedback@appbizdev.com

Show notes for this episode

AppCampus.fi – *CORRECTION* I’ve incorrectly stated the URL for AppCampus program. The correct address is AppCampus.fi

Appcampus Invests First Million Into 30 Companies – ArcticStartup
James Mundy on Twitter

The fall of Angry Birds – Trey Smith
Can Microsoft afford to ignore in-app purchasing on Windows Phone 7? – Ewan Spence, All About Windows Phone