Coffee & Coding: the App Developer Podcast

Today's guest is Tracy Lee - Serial Entrepreneur & founder of Coding Consultancy This Dot Labs

In this episode we discuss:

• Starting businesses
• Being a serial entrepeneur
• What startup life in the Bay Area is actually like
• ThisDot
• and much much more!

🌎 Connect with Tracy Lee
You can find Tracy on Twitter @ladyleet & you find This Dot Labs @thisdot.co

🌎 Connect with Mitch
You can find Mitch on Youtube @ youtube.com/codingwithmitch & on Twitter @mitch_tabian

Today's guest is app development studio founder, Adedayo Omosanya.

In this episode we discuss:

• How he started his app development studio
• Finding his first clients
• His hiring process & finding the right developers
• How he communicates with clients
• and much much more!

🌎 Connect with Adedayo
You can find Adedayo on LinkedIn & you can find his app studio @ ingenious-app-studios.co.uk

Today's guest is Veteran turned Cyber Security Expert - Jon Helmus.

In this episode we discuss:

• How he got into Cyber Security
• The difference between Government Cyber vs Commercial
• What his day to day looks like
• What is Red Teaming
• Vulnerabilities of third party developer tools like Firebase
• and much much more!

🌎 Connect with Jon
You can find Jon on Twitter @Moos1e_Moose, on LinkedIn & on his website.

🔎 Resources discussed in the show

• Aws Pen Testing book
• Wireshark
• Security Onion

Today's episode is a rebroadcast of my recent appearance on the Code Story podcast, hosted by Noah Labhart (guest on episode 10 of this show).  The interview is focused on one of my most popular apps, ReadItToMe, and my journey through building that app in 2011 as a newbie android developer to where it's at today.

🌎 Connect with Noah
You can find Noah on LinkedIn & on his website @ noahlabhart.com.

🔎 Resources discussed in the show

• CodeStory
• ReadItToMe (my app)

Today's guest is João Dias - developer behind legendary Android automation app Tasker.

In this episode we discuss:

• Why he started developing apps
• Quitting his job to earn a living as a full time independent developer
• App monetization models
• Deciding which features to build
• The mess that is the Android permissions system
• Working around OS restrictions
• Dealing with negative reviews
• Advice to aspiring developers on marketing their apps
• and much much more!

🌎 Connect with João
You can find João on Twitter @joaomgcd, on Patreon here & on his website @ joaoapps.com.

🔎 Resources discussed in the show

• Tasker
• Join
• ReadItToMe (my app)

Today's guest is Benedict Seyer - co-founder of IAP price optimization tool Mage

In this episode we discuss:

• What the most popular apps on the store have in common
• What part app reviews play in store ranking
• What is dynamic pricing
• How Mage works
• How you might be losing out on 20% more revenue by sticking with static pricing
• Launching on Product Hunt
• and much much more!

🌎 Connect with Benedict
You can find Benedict on Twitter @SeyerBenedict

🔎 Resources discussed in the show

• Mage
• Mage on Product Hunt
• My zoom talk with students @ Grand Canyon University

Today's guest is Simon Lightfoot - Flutter Developer & CTO of Dev Angels London

In this episode we discuss:

• His software engineering journey to Flutter
• What Flutter is
• How it works under the hood
• Why it's better than Native apps
• The ONE drawback it has
• The future of Flutter Development
• and much much more!

🌎 Connect with Simon
You can find Simon on Twitter @devangelslondon & you find his development agency at devangels.london

🔎 Resources discussed in the show

• The video version of this episode
• Simon's Droidcon Talk
• Flutter Architectural Overview

🌎 Connect with Mitch
You can find Mitch on Youtube @ youtube.com/codingwithmitch & on Twitter @mitch_tabian

Today's guest is Olivier Bloch - Principal Program Manager for Microsoft Azure.

In this episode we discuss:

• His journey from embedded software to iOT
• What IOT actually is
• What it can be used for
• Interesting products using it today
• How the cloud factors into IOT products
• Small ML (Machine Learning)
• The future of IOT
• and much much more!

🌎 Connect with Olivier
You can find Olivier on Twitter @OBloch & you find the IOT show he hosts on Youtube.

🔎 Resources discussed in the show

• IOT Blog
• Microsoft Azure
• Sensoria Fitness

In this episode me & my co host for the day, the all powerful Mitch Tabian (episode 11), speak with Android developer Frederyk Linhares.  We talk about:

• App development in Brazil
• His journey into mobile development
• Building embedded tablet apps for tractors
• How he rebuilt & revived a legacy app with millions of downloads
• Backend to Frontend architecture
• and much much more!

🌎 Connect with Frederyk
You can find Frederyk on Twitter @fredelinhares.

🔎 Resources discussed in the show
 • The video version of this episode

Today's episode is ALL about Freelancing.  Having been a freelance app developer since 2012 I answer your questions about freelancing & cover topics including:

• What is Freelancing?
• The Pro's & Con's of Freelancing
• The differences in Freelancer vs Employee
• Risk vs Security
• Do Freelancer's earn more money?
• What experience do you need to be a Freelancer?
• Why I ONLY freelance
• How I got started with ZERO experience (and you can too!)
• Why I don't use websites like UpWork
• My top hack for finding your next gig
• and much much more!