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S0 · Episode 19

What I found testing my own app before App Store launch

filmed 8 September 2026 · 1:45 · filmed in private, before the series went public

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Every episode before this one was a walkthrough on my laptop, so landscape. Tonight I recorded on the phone instead, because I'm looking into releasing the app on the app store and I need to be using it myself. Setting it up I found a pile of bugs: things not aligned, mechanisms running on web that were never added to the app, and no visible timer. I also gave it the topic of filming seven days in a row, and after the back and forth of the podcast mode, the prepared interview questions came back repetitive and robotic.

The episode, in writing

by Richard Lovatt · from the episode above, checked against what was said

I'm just checking things out. You'll have noticed every episode I did prior to this has been a walkthrough on my laptop, so kind of landscape, and now I'm using the phone because I'm looking into releasing the app on the App Store. And of course that means I've got to start using this.

Through this whole setup I've already noticed a bunch of bugs, things are just not aligned. There are mechanisms that are running on web that haven't been added to the app for some reason. I do want to keep this aspect of the app more basic, just more for shooting. I want the app for people if they're on the move, not at the desk, whatever, they can still just shoot like this and show the things on the wall. But obviously lots of things I want to change.

Right now as I'm looking at you guys I can't see the timer, I think it's in a different form, but anyway I've got two minutes.

There was something I didn't quite like. Now that I've experienced the podcast aspect, where I'm in a dialogue with it, it feels like a human. When you then move back to the interview style questions, where you've given it a topic and it's prepared questions for you, it just feels so robotic. I gave it a topic, the topic was I filmed for seven days in a row, and it created stuff around that, and they were just really repetitive. It's like you wouldn't listen to all of that.

So, food for thought.

Read the transcript

So I'm just guys I'm just checking out the you'll you'll have noticed every episode I did prior to this has been a walkthrough on my laptop So kind of a landscape and now I'm using the phone because I'm looking into releasing the app on the app store And of course that means I got to start using this So through this whole setup I've already noticed you know a bunch of bugs things are just not aligned There are mechanisms that are running on web that haven't been added to the app for some reason I do want to keep the app like this kind of aspect more basic just be like more for just shooting really you know I just want the app for people like if they're on the move or you know not at the desk whatever they can still like just shoot like this and show the things like on the wall you know but obviously lots of things I want to change And obviously right now as I'm looking at you guys I can't see the timer I think it's in a different form but anyway I say I've got two minutes And there was there's something I didn't quite like you know now that I've experienced the podcast aspect where I'm like in a dialogue with it feels like a human um you see me you want to say hi to my dog Yes My dog who is it Now I've experienced that you know that back and forth dialogue When you then move back to like this interview style questions where it's you've given it a topic and then it's kind of prepared questions for you you're like it's just feels so robotic you know And it I gave it a topic of you know the topic was I filmed for seven days in a row and then it created stuff around that And they were just really kind of repetitive and it's like you wouldn't listen to all of that So you know food for thought

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