Guest

•  Manton Reece
  • Micro.blog
  • @manton - Micro.blog
  • Core Int - Podcast with Daniel

Sponsors

• Specialize in helping businesses build apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch
• 10 years of experience developing for a variety of Apple platform
• Helping dev shops which lack experience with Apple platforms and Swift

• Do you have a product or service which can target our ever growing community of developers as well as technology and business leaders? 

Micro.blog

• Self-Hosted and Indie Web Focus
• Dealing with Twitter Issues
  • Developer-Friendly
  • Privacy
  • Community Issues

Marketing to an Audience

• Reach Out and Let People Know
• Starting a Mailing List and Blog to Reach Out
• Slow Growth Allows For Intermittent Improves Based On Audience Feedback
• Maintaining Engagement
• Using Automation with Mailchimp and other Mailing Lists
• Using Kickstarter for Funding a New Project
• Finding the right niche or niches
• Providing value outside of comparing yourself

Developing for Multiple Apple Platform

• Hosting through Linode using Sinatra + Ruby
• How Micro.blog works behind the scenes
• Having a Public API and Dealing with Third-Party APIs
• Adopting standards
• Dealing with Multiple Different UIs
• Building Frameworks for other Developers
• Differences between developing for the Mac vs. iPhone
• Catalyst vs SwiftUI on the Mac
• Constantly Releasing Updates

Apple September Event

• What the new iPhone might mean for developers?
• Maturity of the iPhone
• Emphasis on Photography with third lens
• Independence of the Watch App

Social Media