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?

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