My Story & iOS Dev Career Advice - Launched Interview at Deep Dish Swift
I was on Charlie Chapman's Launched Live podcast at the Deep Dish Swift conference in Chicago in May of 2024. In this interview we discuss the story of how I became a developer, started my YouTube channel/business. We also dive into why I built my app, Creator View and how I got my first iOS Dev job. There's a lot of great iOS dev nuggets in here. Hope you enjoy! My iOS Dev Courses: https://seanallen.teachable.com/?vide... My Source Code: https://seanallen.teachable.com/p/sou... X (Twitter): Sean Allen - / seanallen_dev Hired.com: https://hired.com/x/1n01g Book and learning recommendations that help out the channel if you decide to purchase (Affiliate Links): Mark Moeyken’s SwiftUI Books: https://www.bigmountainstudio.com/a/f... Paul Hudson's Hacking With Swift: https://gumroad.com/a/762098803 RocketSim - Enhance Your Xcode Simulator: https://gumroad.com/a/51797971/ftvbh Objc.io Books (Thinking in SwiftUI & Advanced Swift): https://gumroad.com/a/656585843 Timestamps: 0:00 - I Was Charlie's First iOS Tutorial 2:32 - How I Learned to Code 6:00 - My iOS Dev Bootcamp Experience 6:44 - How I Got my First iOS Dev Job 9:19 - Startups Paint a Pretty Picture 11:36 - I Thought I was Better Than I was 12:35 - Why I Started This YouTube Channel 17:04 - Growth of my YouTube Channel 21:07 - YouTube Business 28:43 - Why I Built Creator View 33:53 - Creator View's Grand Marketing Plan (Failed) 35:55 - I Lost my Cofounder 36:58 - Am I Proud of Creator View? 38:26 - My new Job at PodcastAI 40:50 - Audience Goodwill 42:20 - Who Inspires Me as a Dev? #swift #softwaredeveloper #iosdeveloper

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