Daniel and Manton discuss 37signals becoming Basecamp, spreading one’s self too thinly, choosing a product lineup, time management, and App.net’s new Kickstarter-like system: Backer.

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• Downton Abbey – The British period soap opera set in a very large house.
• Two Big Announcements – 37signals announces its name change to Basecamp.
• Basecamp.com – New site centered around, you guessed it, Basecamp.
• Paper: Stories From Facebook – The new app from Facebook with a controversially generic name.
• Black Ink – Daniel’s Mac-based crosswords app.
• Gus Mueller – Our friend and the developer behind Flying Meat.
• Flying Meat – Gus’s company, which recently changed its focus exclusively to Acorn .
• VoodooPad – Gus’s former desktop wiki app, now a product of Plausible Labs .
• Backer – New crowdfunding service from App.net directed at financing specific software features.
• Kickstarter – The popular crowdfunding service geared more towards physical rewards.
• My Nightmare App – Daniel’s 2006 critique of an overly-ambitious crowd-specified app design contest.

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Manton and Daniel celebrate 30 years of Mac, compare Apple and Nintendo, talk about balancing features you use vs. features you don’t, and discuss the wealth of iOS and Mac oriented podcasts.

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• Thirty Years of Mac – Apple celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Mac.
• The Mac Keeps Going Forever – Macworld interviews Apple executives about the Mac.
• Macintendo Family Values – Daniel’s post from 2006 about shared values between Nintendo and Apple.
• I Want the Basics Solid – Marco Arment’s tweets and Daniel’s replies about the challenge of identifying an app’s “basics.”
• Bloatware and the 80/20 Myth – Joel Spolsky’s article supporting the idea that each user favors a different 20% of an app.
• A Feature You Don’t Give a Damn About – My tweet about the reality of working on features you don’t personally use.
• iOS Dev Tools – A collection of resources for iOS developers, from A.
• Maximum Viable Products – Cabel Sasser of Panic on building substantial products.
• Cabel Sasser & Steven Frank – The whole &yet interview with Cabel and Steven of Panic.
• Edge Cases – Developer podcast with Wolf Rentzsch and Andrew Pontious.
• The Record – Brent Simmons and Chris Parrish’s interview podcast with members of the Mac and Cocoa community.
• NSBrief – Saul Mora’s interview podcast with Cocoa developers.
• Debug – Developer interview podcast with Rene Ritchie and Guy English.

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Daniel and Manton celebrate the release of Sunlit, discuss paid vs. free business models, revisit our privacy policy advice, and discuss the letter and spirit of App Store guidelines.

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• Sunlit – iPhone storytelling app from Manton Reece and Jonathan Hays.
• Storehouse – iPad storytelling app from Mark Kawano and friends.
• No Coincidence – Manton’s blog post acknowledging the unexpectedly synced releases of Sunlit and Storehouse.
• Collecting Underpants – John Gruber on the sinking feeling that a free app or service gives him.
• Exposure App – Another pictorial storytelling service.
• Core Intuition Glassboard – Join us on Glassboard for conversations and feedback about the show.

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Manton and Daniel discuss Sunlit’s release status, App Store rejection shenanigans, a revived Glassboard, and answer Q&A about in-app usage analytics and the value of a privacy policy.

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• Average App Store Review Times – Shiny Development’s crowd-sourced App Store review time estimator.
• Glassboard – A private social network for groups. Use the code “coreint” to join our board.
• What I’d Do With Glassboard – Justin Williams on what he’d do if he acquired Glassboard.
• Glassboard Acquired by Second Gear – Boom! Justin Williams acquired Glassboard.
• Iterate 60 – Relinking Justin’s appearance on Iterate 60.
• Windows Azure – The Microsoft cloud-services backend to Glassboard.
• In-App Usage Analytics – Tweet from Brian Yamabe suggesting a show topic.
• VitalSource – Manton’s employer in the e-Textbooks industry.
• New Relic – Popular in-app analytics solution.
• App.net Developer Incentive Program – Terms of the App.net program including a privacy policy requirement.

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App Store submissions shenanigans and techniques, the challenge of calling something 1.0, the possible fallacy of a bad first impression, discussion of new and reorganized tech news sites.

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• Sunlit – Manton’s forthcoming photo-journaling app.
• Vesper – Note-taking iOS app from Q Branch.
• The Talk Show 65 – John Gruber and Guy English discuss the decision to ship Vesper 1.0 without sync.
• Carpe Aqua – Justin Williams’s blog.
• Iterate 60 – Justin Williams appears on the Iterate podcast.
• Glassboard – The private group social network service acquired by Justin Williams.
• Re/code – The tech news site from the team formerly behind All Things D.
• Yahoo Tech – David Pogue’s new tech site at Yahoo.
• Yahoo Food – Yahoo’s all-new site dedicated to food-related journalism.

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Manton and Daniel observe the end of 2013, Manton’s rising Twitter fortune, and our borderline New Years resolutions. They also chat about Manton’s iPhone 5C, MarsEdit for iOS, and the challenge of choosing between Mac and iOS development.

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• Clipstart – Manton’s Mac-based video-management software.
• Real Artists Ship. Eventually. – Daniel’s Çingleton talk addressing ongoing challenge of shipping for iOS.
• Movable Type – The legendary blog-hosting software that Manton currently uses.
• WordPress – The extremely popular blog-hosting software that Manton is considering.
• MarsEdit – Daniel’s Mac-based blog-editing software.
• Octopress – Popular static-publishing system for blogs.
• Second Crack – Marco Arment’s static-publishing system for blogs.
• iPhone 5C – The consumer-oriented phone that attracted Manton’s attention.

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Daniel and Manton talk about the Waze navigation app and Apple’s missed opportunity in not acquiring it, the risks of pre-announcing release dates, and how to balance attention to detail with shipping the darned 1.0.

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• Waze – Innovative navigation app that captures live feedback from its network of users.
• Outsmarting Traffic Together – Google’s June, 2013 blog announcement about its acquisition of Waze.
• Topsy – Social web search engine recently acquired by Apple.
• Apple E.g. – Scant reference to one of Apple’s previous ventures in search.
• Lucene – Search product by Doug Cutting that came out of Apple’s V-Twin technologies.
• Coming this November – Product teaser page for Manton’s forthcoming Sunlit app.
• Jonathan Hays – Manton’s partner in the development of Sunlit.

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Manton and Daniel discuss Salesforce’s botched hackathon, the risk of relying upon third-party adulation, and searching for a viable business model after releasing a product.

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• Dreamforce Hackathon – Salesforce’s promotional page for their recent hackathon.
• Dirty Secret – Marco Arment’s commentary on perceived problems with the Salesforce hackathon.
• The Integrity Prize – Daniel’s reaction to the Salesforce hackathon aftermath.
• $2 Million Compromise – News article about Salesforce’s decision to award two $1M winners.
• $1 Million – Mattt Thompson’s post encouraging folks to participate in the hackathon.
• AFNetworking – Mattt Thompson’s excellent Mac and iOS networking library.
• NSHipster – Mattt Thompson’s excellent Cocoa engineering blog.
• Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud – The novel startup incubator from Pinboard founder Maciej Cegłowski.
• Tweet Marker Paid Only – Post from Manton announcing the adjusted business model for Tweet Marker.
• Non-Developer App.net API – Announcement from App.net of a new limited API access for non-developer accounts.

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Daniel and Manton discuss the Thanksgiving holiday, possible defects in the iPad Mini screen, and Yahoo’s hiring of Katie Couric and general increases to their mojo.

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• Walt Disney World – Orlando based theme park.
• Mophie Powerstation – Universal battery for portable device charging.
• Duncan Davidson – Photographer, software developer and nice guy.
• Logitech PowerShell – Game controller for iOS that doubles as a device-recharging battery.
• Trading In For Air – Matthew Panzarino observes color saturation problems in his iPad mini.
• Switch To Gray – Marco Arment’s checkerboard screen retension test.
• T-Mobile Free Mobile Data – 200MB free for life, on the network nobody raves about the coverage of.
• Anchors Aweigh – Marissa Mayer welcomes Katie Couric to Yahoo!
• Gadget Geek – Mayer’s similar welcome from last month about David Pogue joining the company.

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Manton gets a new iPad mini retina, while Daniel continues to imagine uses for his. We talk about the economic challenges of indie software, diversifying or unifying product lineups, and pricing conundrums.

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• Gazelle – No-nonsense buyer of old electronics.
• My_Feedback.ppt – Merlin Mann joins John Gruber on The Talk Show.
• Reeder for iPad – Manton’s preferred iPad RSS app.
• PlaintText Plan (2) – Jesse Grosjean of Hog Bay Software makes a difficult decision to stop developing PlainText.
• Hog Bay Notebook / Mori – The vestiges of a previous app Jesse developed and then passed along.
• Unfortunately – Kevin Hoctor tweets about his company’s downsizing.
• The Future of Software Pricing – Kevin Hoctor’s piece about software economics, from earlier this year.
• In-App Purchase – The Future is Here – More recent post from Kevin Hoctor on MoneyWell’s IAP.
• Small Empires — Video series from The Verge.
• Paper – iOS drawing app from FiftyThree, Inc.

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