Getting Started

I want to make an iOS app. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a while now. It’s on my 30 before 30 list, which I put together back in 2018, but iOS development has been on my mind for more years than that.

I want to build and launch something that I create with my own hands start to finish. Put something out into the world that starts as an idea and becomes something real and polished that a stranger I’ll never meet can download and benefit from. I want to make things that solve my own problems. Maybe even make something that someone somewhere will be willing to pay money for someday. Something that’s all my own.

I have some programming skills, and it honestly kinda feels like a waste that I haven’t been using them to make cool shit in my spare time.

I had an internship doing iOS app development back in college, and I really enjoyed it. That was during the iOS 5/6 days shortly after Apple introduced automatic reference counting for Objective-C. No Swift yet. Definitely no SwiftUI yet. iPhones still had bezels and home buttons. That was 2012-2013, which feels like forever ago now.

I haven’t worked on any iOS projects since then. I miss it. It was a fun platform to develop for. I’m an iPhone user, and I love downloading and playing around with new apps on the App Store. It’s inspiring to see the cool stuff people are building every day for that platform. It’s a community I want to be a part of.