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Mac Power Users

690: Better Touch Tool with Andreas Hegenberg

Mac Power Users

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Tech, Technology, David, User, Stephen Hackett, Sparks, How To, Help, Power, Workflow, Ios, Mac, Set Up

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2023

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

BetterTouchTool developer Andreas Hegenberg does his first-ever podcast interview about how he wanted to learn to make iPhone apps and stumbled into making one of our favorite Mac utilities, how the app has grown over the years and making a go of it in the software business.

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0:00.0

Mac Power users, episode 690, better touch tool with Andreas Heggenberg.

0:12.6

Welcome to the Mac Power users. I'm David Sparks. Today Steven can't be with us today. He's out on assignment, but I do have a super Mac Power user with me.

0:21.7

Welcome to the show, Andreas Heggenberg.

0:24.3

Hello David. I'm very glad to be here.

0:27.8

I'm very sorry about Steven, so yeah, it doesn't sound very good, but at least he's fine.

0:33.8

Oh, yeah, he's doing good. He's doing good. He just, you know, had a little thing and he's okay, but he just couldn't be here today.

0:39.5

But it's all good. And Andreas, I am going to be butchering your name throughout the show. I'm just going to apologize in advance.

0:46.8

I'm super bad at German pronunciation. I'm not sure why that is totally fine. That is totally fine.

0:52.6

And one thing I wouldn't say I'm a super power user. I'm somebody who creates applications for power users, but myself, I'm not sure.

1:03.6

So, of course, I used to make a lot and but some users of my apps are much more advanced than I am even with my own apps.

1:13.1

Well, I will say that you are a super power user because Andreas and I kind of buried the lead here gang.

1:19.1

Andres is the developer of better touch tool, which is I think one of our Hall of Fame apps because it just comes up so often.

1:27.1

And I am so excited to share the background of how Andreas got into this is development story.

1:34.6

We're going to talk about better touch tool in more power use today, which is the ad free version of the show.

1:40.6

We're going to actually talk about Andreas' decision to go indie and really put all his effort into this application.

1:46.6

We got a lot to talk to you about today, but we're going to focus a lot today on better touch tool with the man himself who created it.

1:54.6

And I just honestly can't wait to get started with the show.

1:58.6

A little housekeeping though. Andreas has been kind enough to offer a discount to Mac Power users listeners.

2:04.6

This is a bit time sensitive, I believe. How long do people have to use this Andreas?

2:09.6

Oh, I haven't decided yet. So, I think at least a week or two. Let's see.

2:15.6

Okay. All right. Well, that's cool. The reason I say that is because sometimes when folks do that on the show, years later people come back and listen to the episode and they're like, well, why didn't I get my discount?

2:25.6

It's part of the curse of making an evergreen podcast. People discover it for a long time.

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