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We have Adam Wulf, the creator of Loose Leaf as our guest for today’s show.  Adam was the former co-founder of the company Jotlet, an online calendar tool, before Jive Software acquired his company.

At a very young age, he started programming in 4th grade with the Q-Basic programming language.  His first exposure to programming was modding the nibbles game.  In high school, he was programming games on a TI-82 graphing calculator.  After college, Adam learned web programming on his own.  

Starting up Jotlet, Adam’s first lesson in startups was: 

“It doesn’t matter how good your product is or how good you think your product is…product is only half the equation.  You've really have to nail the marketing side and you've really have to understand who your customers are and how to talk to your customers and how to get customers."

After realizing that their product was dead, Jotlet focused on the marketing side and stop building new features.  Features that they didn’t know if their customers wanted it.

Jolter’s first marketing dollars were focus on going to conferences and that’s where they met Jive Software which led to selling their company and acquired by Jive Software.  Adam noted that it was luck selling the company but its about creating the opportunities where you can be lucky.  The more opportunities you create the luckier you’ll be.

Another lesson he learned was that sometimes you just have to pull your head up and look and see if their are any opportunities available.

One of the things Adam struggles with is validating the idea first before investing too much time or money on the project.  It’s easy to get wrapped up in the project but without checking to see if it is what the customers want, you could waste the time and effort building the app.

After working 4 years at Jotlet, it took Adam 2 years to develop Loose Leaf.  Loose Leaf is  a brain storming scratch paper app for the back of the napkin idea.  He built it to quickly get the ideas on paper.  Through out the development of Loose Leaf, Adam made parts of the app open source and on top of that he created a YouTube channel where he talks about the development.  Adam believes in sharing the technology.

For the beginner indie developer, Adam recommended to just get started.  Use starter codes to get you started and then build from there.  

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EP005 - Do you think you have what it takes to see your ideas come to life? - Adam Wulf

Cofounder and CEO Alex explains the iOS 9 privacy changes, how Universal Links work, and what it means for existing app features. 

Answering: Why did Apple kill the method call canOpenURL:? Do Universal Links make up for it?

Learn more at https://branch.io

Playlist: #MobileFirst Minipods https://soundcloud.com/branchmetrics/sets/mobile-first-minipods
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On canOpenURL:() and Universal Links

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In this episode, we’re joined by Devin Becker, eSports commentator and indie game designer to chat about the emerging mobile eSports market. He shares insider knowledge about a variety of topics surrounding the world of competitive gaming, and offers tips for mobile developers who are interested in breaking into the eSports development arena.

For more information on Enhance - enhance.co

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Source: www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/338693

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05: How to Develop Mobile eSports Games

In this episode of the EnhanceMyApp podcast, we sit down with a panel of mobile app industry experts to discuss the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that went into effect in May this year. We know there’s still a lot of confusion out there pertaining to these new policies, especially regarding how it will affect mobile developers and their apps, so we hope you enjoy this very insightful roundtable on the topic.

The experts joining us today are:
Eldad Ben Tora, CEO of KIDOZ
Eric Dawson, Advertising and Game Analysis for Concrete Software
Zachary C. Strebeck, Attorney at Law
Bruce Gustafson, CEO of Developer’s Alliance

For more information on Enhance - http://enhance.co

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Source: https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/338693

07: A Mobile Developer's Guide to GDPR

We are here to talk about a new technology that’s taken the mobile advertising industry by storm. Header bidding is one of the biggest buzzwords of 2018, and we’ve invited VP of Publisher Platforms at InMobi to chat with us today and to help our listeners better understand this new technology, what it is, how it works and ultimately how this will affect mobile developers. 

Joining us today are:
Andrew Gerhart VP of Publisher Platforms, InMobi

For more information on Enhance - enhance.co

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08: Is Header Bidding Replacing The Waterfall?

We speak with Enhance’s Co-Founder and CEO Chris Hughes and CTO Luke Mitchell to discuss SDK fatigue, which is an industry term coined to embody the overall feeling a developer has when having to spend time managing yet another third party SDK.

Joining us today are:
Chris Hughes CEO, Enhance
Luke Mitchell CTO, Enhance

For more information on Enhance - enhance.co

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Source: www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/338693

09: How to Avoid SDK Fatigue

devPod Diaries: A weekly check-in retelling experience as I struggle and succeed as I learn iOS Development.

gitHub: https://github.com/tiannahenrylewis

Check-In #3: Wi-Fi Woes

devPod Diaries: A weekly check-in retelling experience as I struggle and succeed as I learn iOS Development.

gitHub: github.com/tiannahenrylewis
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Check-In #4: Focus

Talking #MobileFirst #MobileOnly #Deep Linking and #Mobile Growth. We cover Linking (Deep Links, Deferred Deep Links, Contextual Links), the platforms that support them (iOS, Android, Facebook, Twitter...), and Mobile Growth strategies (onboarding, organic user growth, virality, app store optimization and more...).

Answering questions from Twitter #AskAlex @branchmetrics

devPod Diaries: A weekly check-in retelling experience as I struggle and succeed as I learn iOS Development.

A developer’s guide to all the great services, tools and information available to improve your mobile app.

Tune in for tips and tricks and hot industry trends around monetization, analytics, game design, UA and more!

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