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Side Project Spotlight is a podcast for app builders, documenting the process of producing real apps for the Apple App Store using Swift, SwiftUI, and other technologies.
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Signup to Generate a PitchSide Project Spotlight is a podcast for app builders, documenting the process of producing real apps for the Apple App Store using Swift, SwiftUI, and other technologies.
Side Project Spotlight is hosted by Philly CocoaHeads. The show has published 122 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "#122: No App Like Home...View" (19 October 2026, 47 minutes), "#121: Finding the Fun with AI and Mohammad Azam" (5 October 2026, 58 minutes), and "#120: Mike Zornek Fights For the Users" (21 September 2026, 72 minutes).
Side Project Spotlight publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 56 minutes across 122 episodes.
Booking probability for Side Project Spotlight is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Side Project Spotlight requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Side Project Spotlight's contact route on record: verified email.
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Philly CocoaHeads hosts Side Project Spotlight, a technology podcast with 122 episodes published.
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Episode #122
Apple has a new home screen, but where does that leave app developers? The Trio sizes up HomeView, the Apple Home Collection, and the cost of going all in on a smart home. Steve needs to replace a misbehaving HomePod...
Episode #121
Mohammad Azam turned a childhood game into Block Bop with AI and three days of work. He joins The Trio to talk expressive blocks, playtesting, and paid level packs, with a detour through a 3,000-line ContentView.swift...
Episode #120
Mike Zornek wants your software to keep working even when the company behind it disappears. He joins The Trio to explain local-first software, Automerge, and CRDTs, then shares what he learned building LocalCents, an...
Episode #119
John Ternus is Apple’s new CEO, and The Trio have a wish list ready. Kotaro, Steve, and Aaron size up his practical hardware legacy, imagine a stronger developer story for the age of bespoke AI-built apps, and ask...
Episode #118
Bill Atkins put a Mac mini in his spare room so local models can handle the coding chores he would rather skip, all without sending Stylebook's code to the cloud. Bill joins Kotaro, Steve, and Aaron to unpack his setup...
Episode #117
The desktop has barely changed in decades, even as we’ve all become digital hoarders. Scott Jenson’s Local-First Conf talk, “How the Desktop UX Needs to Evolve to Keep Up With Local First,” gives The Trio a jumping-off...
Episode #116
Steve puts BentoFit in the loop, using agentic coding to add themes and straighten out the app's Swift package structure. The Trio digs into Mike Zornek's three-year AI-coding journey, the skills and harnesses shaping...
Episode #115
Steve drops serious cash on an M5 Max MacBook Pro right as Apple's Rampocalypse price hikes hit, then immediately bricks his iPhone 14 Pro Max installing iOS 27 Beta 3. The Trio unpacks Apple pulling the liquid glass...
Episode #114
Steve is back from a Royal Caribbean cruise to Bermuda just in time for the WWDC26 wrap-up, and Kotaro wastes no time YOLOing onto the macOS beta to demo Siri AI live. Things go sideways fast when Siri deletes Kotaro's...
Episode #113
Recorded thirty minutes after the WWDC26 State of the Union keynote ended, The Trio delivers a hot-take reaction to everything Apple just announced. Steve makes his boldest claim yet: 2026 is the year the "Universal UI"...
Episode #112
<p>With WWDC26 just around the corner, The Trio burns off some Google I/O feelings before getting to the speculation they actually care about. Steve breaks down why AI-slopified search might be quietly destroying the...
Episode #111
<p>Steve finally fixed phillycocoa.org, and the journey from broken CircleCI pipelines and hijacked S3 buckets to a blazing-fast Cloudflare Pages site took one Side Project Saturday and an embarrassing number of Codex...
<p>Tim Cook is stepping down in September, and The Trio has plenty of thoughts on what the Ternus era means for Apple. Kotaro dives into his embedded systems rabbit hole (Raspberry Pis, ESP32s, and a Godot refresher)...
Episode #109
<p>The Trio tests Google's new Gemma 4 model running locally on an iPhone and gets an instant wrong answer, which sets the tone for a sprawling conversation about AI hype, Anthropic's Mythos release, and the social...
Episode #108
<p>iOS 26.4 just dropped and Steve is thrilled that the keyboard finally works again. The Trio digs into the new Music app concerts feature (powered by Bands in Town, probably), which leads Steve into a passionate case...
Episode #107
<p>The Trio declares this an AI-free episode and dives into Apple's latest hardware announcements. Kotaro, Steve, and Aaron break down the new MacBook Neo, its surprisingly capable A18 chip, aluminum build, colorful...
Episode #106
<p>The Trio kick off with the rumors about Apple's March 4th event and the possible return of a budget 12-inch MacBook on an A18 chip, which leads to a very poorly researched price analysis and a pitch for a MacBook...
<p>In this episode, Alex Hillman, co-founder of Philadelphia's legendary coworking space Indy Hall, takes us through his journey building a sophisticated AI executive assistant using Claude Code. What started as a...
Episode #104
<p>The Trio meet to discuss two of the talks (ours!) from the recent in-person PhillyCocoa meetup called "Beyond the Simulator: Perspectives on Modern App Development" that took place on January 29 at the Vanguard...
Episode #103
<p>#103: 2026 Vibes</p><p><br></p><p>We're back! In this season 6 premiere, Steve struggles to speak after being sick, but still manages to talk a lot about the current hype around Claude Code and Opus 4.5 and the...
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