Daniel talks to Manton about his new podcast, Timetable. The two discuss unmet goals and the risk of perpetually failing to meet one’s own expectations. They affirm the merits of releasing software updates often, and minimizing friction for procedures that companies should do often in order to succeed. Manton discusses his App Store rejection for a forthcoming product, and Daniel tries to talk him into changing his approach to marketing the paid version of his upcoming microblogging service.

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• Timetable – Manton’s new podcast featuring short thoughts about indie business.
• Kickstarter – Crowd-funding site on which Manton plans to launch a campaign.
• Done! – Advice from 37 Signals about decisions being temporary.
• FlexTime 1.3 – Daniel ships an update with changes that were mostly done a year ago.
• Panic 2015 Report – Year-end summary from one of the Mac’s most beloved indie software companies.
• Wii Transfer – Mantons’ discontinued Mac app for managing Nintendo Wii content.
• Purchasing and Currencies – Sections of Apple review guidelines pertinent to Manton’s app rejection.
• MarsEdit – Daniel’s Mac desktop blogging app.
• WordPress for iOS – Open source iOS blog editing app from WordPress.org.

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Manton talks to Daniel about re-releasing Shush as Swish and the value of trademarking an app’s name. They discuss comments on blogs, and pros and cons of mixing business and. personal blogging. Finally, they recognize Manton’s partial return to Twitter and whether it constitutes Daniel winning a 3-year-old bet.

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• Swish on the App Store – Daniel’s white noise app for iOS.
• TESS – The US Patent Office’s trademark searching system.
• Like Watching Paint Dry – Release Notes episode #140 on splitting company and personal blogs.
• Red Sweater Blog – Daniel’s company blog, which used to be more of a personal blog.
• Leaving the Mac App Store – Bohemian Coding with an example of a company blog post that criticizes Apple.
• Pieter Omvlee – Founder of Bohemian Software and speaker at the Release Notes Conference.
• Panic Blog – A company blog done well.
• Manton.org – Manton’s personal blog, which incorporates business oriented articles.
• Bitsplitting – Daniel’s personal, technology-oriented blog.
• Indie Stack – Daniel’s personal, programming-oriented blog.
• Civil – Portland, OR startup dedicated to increasing civility of online discourse.
• Webmention – IndieWebCamp’s proposal to modernize “pingback” style notifications of URL linkage.
• Disqus – Popular plug-and-play commenting system.
• @manton2 – Manton’s second personal account on Twitter.
• Not Back On Twitter – Brent Simmons on his decision to remove Twitter from his daily life.
• I’ll Leave You With This – Manton Reece’s last tweet from his first personal account.

Daniel and Manton reflect on their experience at the Apple TV tech talks, brainstorm app category ideas for Apple TV, and discuss the use of Twitter for customer support and how a 10K text limit might impact that. They also talk about Apple’s iOS 9.3 preview, rumors of a new iPhone 4-inch model, and speculate whether WWDC would ever move from Moscone in SF.

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• Apple TV Tech Talks – Apple’s official page for the talks.
• Session Resources – Compendium of Apple TV developer resources from the talks.
• Clipstart – Manton’s Mac-based video management utility.
• Living Room Engagement – Daniel’s thoughts about Apple TV app genre opportunities.
• Airbnb for Apple TV – Preview of the now-available app.
• iOS 9.3 Preview – Apple’s early marketing of the forthcoming release.
• Google I/O Venue – The company announced they will hold the event at Shoreline Amphitheatre.

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Manton and Daniel react to Twitter’s rumored plan to support 10K of text in tweets, answer listener Q&A about product versioning and milestone strategies, and check with thoughts on Swift upon Daniel’s completion of “reading the fine manual.”

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• Twitter is Public Messaging – Jack Dorsey defendes the 10,000 character text attachment concept for tweets.
• Welcome to the Dark Side – Manton Reece reacts to the 10K text proposal with comparison to Facebook.
• Six Colors – A repository of Jason Snell’s (and Dan Moren’s) writing that lives independent of Twitter.
• Milestone Strategies – Listener question from Sander van Dragt, whose name we pronounce many ways.
• Swift Language Guide – Apple’s primary, high-level documentation about the many features of Swift.

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