Today was all about getting started. I had a UI in mind so that’s what I started with implementing with placeholder data. Good thing about AI tools like ChatGPT is they give you some starting point however its strange how quickly GPT loses context across 2 screens within a new chat. Totally crazy. (It does not do this with text/writing/social media etc. type of chats, only coding.) Anyways, we’re still early in building Checklistd — the job-search-focused to-do app I’m learning to build in SwiftUI — but even in just a couple of days, I’ve realized something:...
I’ve started building a proper iOS app. This is not going to be a resume only project. This one has a purpose. It’s called Checklistd — a to-do list app. Ewww…another to-do list app? Yuck. Hear me out, this is not just another random to-do list app. This one’s made for job seekers. If you’ve followed me on Instagram or YouTube, you know I talk a lot about careers, job searching, switching roles, and figuring stuff out....
When I started learning Swift and iOS development, I did what everyone does — opened Udemy and bought a course. Then another. And another. And before I knew it, I had started like 3 different beginner courses… and still had finished not one of those. Midway I had gotten bored in each one because the thing they were teaching was too boring, too basic. It was nothing like the billion dollar iOS app that I wanted to build....
The urge to create something beautiful for iPhone I didn’t think I’d be learning how to build iPhone apps at 30. Not while juggling a product marketing career, masters in data science, a family life, and the sinking feeling that I really should have taken coding more seriously 10 years ago. The unfortunate reality is that the way coding was taught (electronics engineering degree), especially how “pointers” in C++ were taught made me believe coding wasn’t for me....