In this edition of the AppleVis Extra, David Nason speaks to Jianfeng Wu, also known as Jeff, the creator of Voice Vista, winner of Developer of the Year in the 2024 AppleVis Golden Apple awards.

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Hello there, and welcome to another episode of the AppleVis Extra Podcast.

I am David Nason.

I'm delighted to be with you again talking about the 2024 Golden Apple Awards.

The awards were held at the end of 2024 on appleviz.com with the AppleViz user community voting and winners announced in December.

Today we are talking about and talking to the winner of the Developer of the Year award.

So delighted to be having that opportunity.

Today we had 12 nominees in this category and they were.

We had Act Nun AB who make the Eldrum Untold app or game.

Agile Bits Incorporated who make one password.

Ben Hills from the Anytime Player podcast player app.

Benvision Inc. who makes Speakaboo.

Jianfeng Wu who makes Voice Vista.

Junyu Quang, the creator of Mona for Mastodon and Spring for Twitter.

Seyvan Sukiasyan who makes Asmar Quest, another great game.

Sparkling Design who make Pixiebot.

Split Atom Labs, great name for a company, and they make the Land of Livia game.

Tapit Music GmbH who of course make Tapit.

Touchmint LLC who make the Adventure to Fate Lost Island game.

And No Stranger to the Golden Apples, we had Weather Gods LLC who of course make the Weather Gods weather app.

So great list of nominees there 12 and we have two honorable mentions, two runners up first.

And they were Pixiebot and Mona from Mastodon slash Spring for Twitter.

So congrats to those two runner up developers.

But our winner was Jianfeng Wu who makes as we said the Voice Vista navigation app.

And I'm delighted to be joined by Jianfeng today to talk about his app and his work.

Hello, Jeff, and welcome to the podcast.

How are you?

Good, thank you.

And firstly, congratulations on winning the Developer of the Year award, which is voted by the Appleviz community.

Yeah, it's great news.

Yeah, I'm glad too and thank you very much.

Thank you all my friends to vote.

Thank you.

Yeah, it's brilliant.

And for those maybe you don't know or haven't used it yet, do you want to start by just telling us a little bit about Voice Vista?

Oh, yeah, I can.

I like coding as platform on my spare time.

There are some side projects for myself in the case, for example, some turn-based games, some traditional chess, card games, or practice tools for the elementary and middle schools.

And I have some radio and the television station, but all that's for my side projects.

I have some other work.

So one of my strategy games I built, a lot of people, we sort of impaired played it because it's lucky it's accessible.

So one day, one of my friends, Greg, he sent me an email.

He said Microsoft will discontinue the app Starscape.

He said I may have interest to continue it.

It's about time…

In conversation with the creators of Voice Vista, Winner of Best Developer in the 2024 Golden Apples

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In conversation with the creators of Voice Vista, Winner of Best Developer in the 2024 Golden Apples