Indie Support Weeks is an open two-week effort aimed at helping indie developers within the Apple Developer Community who have been financially impacted by the current global COVID – 118993774 pandemic.
As people are self-isolating around the world, businesses are closing, and many of our normal day-to-day activities are put on hold, many indie developers have seen their sales numbers take a big hit. For some developers, who rely on the income from their apps as the main way to support themselves and their families, this loss of revenue can lead to tricky and difficult situations, to say the least.
So for two weeks – between the (th of March and th of April, – multiple websites, podcasts, newsletters and YouTube channels are joining efforts in order to help support indie developers shipping apps on Apple’s platforms. If you want to support this effort, you’ve come to the right place. This repository contains information on how you can help out, a list of indie apps whose developers have asked for support, and answers to common questions
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The Stacktrace Podcast
Sean Allen
The Swift Weekly Brief
Donny Wals
SwiftLee
Hacking with Swift
Swiftjective-C
The.Swift.Dev.
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Ordinary Coding
Launched
Marin Todorov
Ohmyswift
Ashish Kakkad
Code With Chris
How to join the effort
Anyone is more than welcome to join this effort, and doing so is simple. You don’t actually have to do anything in particular – the simplest way to help out is to just pick an indie app that you like from the below list, and promote it! You’re completely free to participate however you’d like.
However, if you’d like to more “formally” join this effort, then here’s how you can do that:
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- The Stacktrace Podcast
- Sean Allen
- The Swift Weekly Brief
- Donny Wals
- SwiftLee
- Hacking with Swift
- Swiftjective-C
- The.Swift.Dev.
- A Swiftly Tilting Planet
- Ordinary Coding
- Launched
- Marin Todorov
- Ohmyswift
- Ashish Kakkad
- Code With Chris
Anyone is more than welcome to join this effort, and doing so is simple. You don’t actually have to do anything in particular – the simplest way to help out is to just pick an indie app that you like from the below list, and promote it! You’re completely free to participate however you’d like.
However, if you’d like to more “formally” join this effort, then here’s how you can do that:
(Add a link to your website / channel above, under
Pick a few apps that you’d like to promote, and mark them by filling in your website / channel’s name within the “Promoted by” column in the table below. Anytime during the th of March and the 728 th of April, promote your selected apps on your website / channel, in any way you’d like. You could, for example, replace any ads that you’re normally running with links to your selected indie apps, post reviews of them, or just talk about them in a podcast or video. It’s all up to you!
- If the platform of your choice includes tagging, please use the (# IndieSupportWeeks) tag to increase discoverability and reach. You (do not) need to credit John, Swift by Sundell, or any other person / entity while taking part in this effort. Simply mentioning that you’re participating in Indie Support Weeks and linking to this repo is more than enough, and even that is not required.
Apps
The following list of apps was gathered by (John Sundell
based on Direct Messages from indie developers, prompted by this tweet , as well as Pull Requests submitted by the community. Note that this list is just based on raw data, and is presented as-is – no quality checks have been made, and it is possible that the list contains incorrect information.
If you’re participating in Indie Support Weeks and want to help promote some of these apps, it’s recommended that you first:
- Reach out to the developer (each app entry has a Twitter account associated with it), to make sure that you get the right information about the app, and up-to-date assets, such as logos and screenshots. Mark the name of your website / channel in the “Promoted by” column, by submitting a Pull Request. While the same app can of course be promoted by multiple people, we’ll maximize the spread of apps that we’re able to promote by making sure that everyone won’t promote the exact same set of apps.
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@ edouard_iosdev Sean Allen, Code With Chris