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Hands on with Launch Center app
Mar 11, 2025
AppCubby's David Barnard gives a tour of his Launch Center shortcut app. It's like Automator for iPhone.
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okay I'm here with David Berard at mwell
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ield and David is one of the earliest
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app developers he had a big hit early on
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with gas cubby when the App Store first
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launched um uh but uh you know you got
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to keep it coming right got to keep the
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hits coming yeah I got to keep working
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so gas cubby did well for a while and we
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just keep working on new apps and um you
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know hoping people get excited about him
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right so David's got a new app today
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called Len it just uh is in the top 100
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which is a big deal yeah yeah just hit
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number uh last time I checked it was
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number uh 88 in the app store which is
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huge for us it's been years since we've
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had one uh Crest in the top 100 so we're
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really excited you make a couple of
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grand today or something like that
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probably maybe even a little more but
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you know tomorrow it may make five bucks
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so that's kind of the way the App Store
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rolls all right well let's do it then
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can you show it to us yeah sure so uh
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the app is called launch
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Center and uh one of the one of the big
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use cases is I text my wife you know
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probably 10 times a day so in order to
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text my wife I launched the messages app
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now I've been texting Justin a friend of
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mine well so now I got to go back to
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messages now I got to hit new and then I
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got to find her name right yeah so it
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takes so long so we launch CER and I've
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got it here in my dock um is I created a
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shortcut so now all I do is launch
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launch Center and um and hit message my
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wife and there you go boom and so it's
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it's super fast you can create uh launch
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apps and do all sorts of stuff and
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what's really cool is you can even
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schedule notifications so like uh let's
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say you visit the Drudge Report every
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morning uh you set it up Drudge Report
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The Drudge Report it back oh of
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course um and then you can schedule it
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so you can schedule it for uh you know
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tomorrow morning morning in the a.m. and
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then when you wake up in the morning
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there'll be a little notification in
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your lock screen and you just swipe that
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it takes you right to the site so it's a
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really handy way to get shortcuts and
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schedule phone calls and things like
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that so you know if you set a calendar
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reminder then you still got to go launch
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the app and find the contact and do all
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that instead it's like I have a call at
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5:00 with Bob well as soon as you swipe
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the notification you're calling Bob so
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it's a really handy way to uh schedule
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shortcuts and and get around your iPhone
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cool all right yeah it looks really
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useful I it looks like a nice up we'll
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definitely have to check it out thanks a
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lot David at it
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