In episode 12 of the Supertop Podcast, Padraig and Oisin discuss gifts, Castro’s surprisingly good performance in December, thoughts on Swift and New Year’s resolutions.

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Show Notes

Christmas presents (00:40)

• More socks than any man deserves.
• Live unboxing of Oisín’s gift to Padraig
• Wireless Headphones

Oisin’s AirPods Q&A (07:14)

• Padraig asks a bunch of obvious questions.

Business Update: Not so doomy (15:05)

• Castro had a great 2 weeks
• NY Times named Castro 2 as one of their ‘Best Apps of 2016’
• App Santa went well

iTunes Connect Analytics (22:45)

• Padraig complains about them.

Charts & Sales Anxiety (31:17)

• Good news is that the top 2-3 podcast apps do make more than enough revenue to survive.
• Anxiety tip: Yesterday’s sales reports are out around 10:00pm PST
• It’s weird, as an indie developer, that successful sales feedback happens so separately from the work.

Starting to learn Swift (42:02)

• Re-writing Buscouver.
• Contract work needing Swift gives us a deadline
• Is the fussing about 'nil’ worth it?
• Working for the compiler vs it working for you.
• Apple’s Swift book, The Stanford Course
• Oisin launching a PCalc competitor
• Some good things about Swift

New Years Resolutions (60:03)

• Oisin’s gunna run.
• Padraig’s not gunna run (for political office).
• Oisin’s going to take a holiday.