![]() Cause I did a, I did this open-source framework, mail core that made it easy to do IMAP and SMTP. And the consulting I did was actually email apps on iOS. So I ended up leaving, Garmin and ended up doing consulting. So I knew I really wanted to go that direction. and I toyed around with lots of different ideas over the years side projects that I would charge for. I mean, I had been involved in the shareware scene early on, on the Mac and like the nineties and early thousands. know, and I’d always been entrepreneurial in nature too. We’re able to add the full mapping, which was super. So it was a whole, like how do we host this thing within an iOS app? It was, it was so we eventually pulled it off. And that was quite tricky because it runs on its own. GPS units they had for the that had mapping functionality in it. I can’t remember the name of the devices right now. Well, and yeah, what we eventually did is we built in a bunch of ‘em. Like there are people that just prefer it and I still see it in a lot of Like it is, it is not a, it is not a zero use app. There’s a contingent in the pilot community of Garmin fans. They were doing, they were just doing amazing.Īnd I mean, I’m still really proud of the work we did too. Did that for a while, but ultimately kind of got frustrated being in the big, slow company and watching, like, ForeFlight just like, They were just crushing it. So we’re really crossing over now, but, but yeah, that was, that was tons of fun. was the one that built the subscription infrastructure for Garmin This was my first introduction to in-app purchase subscriptions as well. And actually another, another crossover here. Which I, they had like 16 kilobytes of Ram or something like this. And this was, we started on the iPad too. You have to engineer around all that stuff, and it’s taken a number of years. There’s lots of stuff that make it a difficult operating system for a hardened environment, like a cockpit. ![]() You know, iOS is designed for consumers, right? So, apps jetison randomly, notifications are an issue. And it has to be, I mean, talk about constraints on iOS. Just all this stuff I didn’t know, and working on the mapping, the mapping was a lot of fun, and pretty hard, actually pretty hard to I would see different things hooked up to ForeFlight. I probably saw that somewhere along the lines and didn’t know it was you. That was 2012, or something.īut, it was my side gig for a while. In a past life, I made software that connected Garmin Pilot and ForeFlight to Flight Simulator. Let’s go test it,” and we’d get in a little plane. So, we’d be like, “Alright, we’ve got a new approach feature. It was fun just to learn a ton about aviation. ForFlight, in general, kicked Garmin’s butt. So, we were kinda neck and neck with ForeFlight for a long time. They brought me in to work on the iPad app, and they really wanted to compete with ForeFlight. Yeah, and that was tons of fun because I didn’t know anything about aviation going into it. It was like the one, like switching incentives. I think you had the vectorized maps very early. ![]() You guys had maps right before ForeFlight did. I worked at a startup, and then eventually I joined Garmin. He went to Apple full-time for five years or so, and I did other things. I was an intern there, two summers actually. To go back even a little earlier, I think it was about 2006, I was a intern at Apple. So, you were at Garmin for a while, and then took a break from that and launched Astropad. Well, I wanted to kick off just, having a founder on, we can’t miss the opportunity to hear the founding story. You’ve got a lot of fun stories to talk about today.Īlright. Yeah, I’ve been looking forward to chatting with you. Why offering lifetime subscriptions might not be a great option, and what it’s like when Apple Sherlocks your product. On the podcast, we talk with Matt about how not to screw up switching your app to subscriptions. Having worked at Apple, Garmin, and founded several companies of his own, Matt is an experienced engineer and entrepreneur with a passion for building creative tools. Our guest today is Matt Ronge, co-founder and CEO of Astropad. With me as almost always, RevenueCat CEO, Jacob Eiting.
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