Thanks and credits

My thanks to the following individuals for their support of MDM Deals:

• The Club Members who keep the lights on!
• MDM Deals’ ability to post on Mastodon was courtesy of the awesome Matt Birchler – developer, podcaster, YouTuber, and a great guy.
• The gorgeous logo and background image you see was developed by Max Design. Max did excellent work at a reasonable price and I’d recommend him to you.
• I’ve appreciated help on the business side of things from Karsten & Nikita Engelbricht of Hoolatron Studios as well as Zach Cichy of The Menu Bar.
• Jooble provided free advertising to MDM Deals.
• Beta testers, including Jon F., Matt B., Daryl B., and others who hide behind internet aliases so I don’t know their names. Thanks for your feedback.
• My wife and kids, who have allowed me to spend WAY too much time on the site, including time every evening posting deals.

Special thanks to those who have graciously allowed MDM Deals to use their app icons & logos here and across our social media sites, in alphabetical order:

• 1Password by AgileBits – top-of-the-line password manager
• AnkiMobile by Damien Elmes – powerful space-repetition flash cards
• Associate by Squibner – easily generate Amazon affiliate links
• Be Focused Pro by XwaveSoft – stay focused and productive all day long
• Blink by Squibner – easily generate iTunes & App Store affiliate links
• Camera+ 2 by LateNiteSoft – powerful manual camera and filters
• Fantastical by Flexibits – gorgeous calendar with time-saving natural language input
• Goodnotes 4 by Time Base Technology – gorgeous handwritten notes & annotations
• Launch Center Pro by Contrast – automate tons of actions on your iPhone and iPad
• Linky by Pragmatic Code – post to multiple social media networks at once
• Overcast by Marco Arment – incredible podcast player with silence-skipping Smart Speed
• PCalc by TLA Systems – a delightfully powerful calculator
• Pleco by Mike Love – the best Chinese dictionary out there
• Pretty Regex by Chris Hannah – a beautiful native iOS app to write and test regular expressions
• Reading Plan by Pricejh – a free app to keep track of your Bible reading plan
• Remote Control by Evgeny Cherpak – control your Mac from your iOS device
• Scanbot by Scanbot – accurately scan documents and images on your iPhone and iPad
• Soulver by Acqualia Software – a fantastic cross between a calculator, notepad, and spreadsheet
• Sudoku ME by Hoolatron Studios – beautifully designed Sudoku puzzles
• Unlox by Kane Cheshire – unlock & automate your Mac with FaceID or your Apple Watch
• Yoink by Eternal Storms Software – powerful drag & drop for iPad

Deals I curate are formatted, generated, and propagated to all MDM Deals channels using an immensely complex Shortcut–thanks to the Workflow (now Apple) team behind that; MDM Deals wouldn’t be possible without it. Likewise, MDM Deals propagate via dozens of IFTTT applets and Zapier actions, as well as Buffer. Thanks to those groups.

The MDM Deals website runs on WordPress’ business plan (recommended!) and utilizes the following plugins:

• Jetpack – excellent all-around plugin for stats, spam protection, security certificates, RSS feeds, and more
• Redirection – the best, free, URL redirector of when I mess up my posts and slugs
• Install Headers and Footers by WPBeginner – simple, easy, free, code-free way to add necessary code into your site’s header and footer
• Publish to Apple News – Dead-simple plugin for publishing from WordPress to Apple News. Highly recommend.