Two Years To Make (This) App: What
Homie has been two years in the making. I’m proud to finally have it out of my head (and desk and computer), to on my phone (via the App Store).
I started Homie two years ago, as the first app I worked on by myself after just starting out learning how to code for iOS and feeling comfortable enough running on my own.
Learning to code and making Homie are so intimately intertwined that I guess I’m writing about both because they happened in such close proximity to each other.
I knew zero about programming when I stared,
I still feel like I could say I know zero about programming, even after having done it a lot the last two to three years,
But anyway, in regards to learning…
I was at a point where I realized if I wanted to add more to the projects I would be doing, then I just had to learn to program for iOS. There was no other choice. You can work on projects in a bunch of different roles, but unless you can actually make them come into existence (i.e. program), you’re kind of at the mercy of everyone else. Not a news flash to most people, but, ya know.
So thats been one of the burning desires in my one big desire to learn to code. It’s a small part of what started me out on this whole learning thing.
But when we’re talking about what really started and kept me going all of this time, its definitely the idea behind Homie that really started and kept me moving.
I wanted it to exist. It had to exist. It didn’t need to change the world or anything. I just wanted it for a few minutes of my day.
Most SELFISH app I could think of making basically.
It’s all about me being a sports obsessed fan. Giving the ability to strip out all the link bait news outlets with BS articles, and just sit down with the teams I love.
Let the interface, interactions-guessing, and popup/banner ads chill out.
Just sports.
So I felt like I needed to write about the process today and tomorrow if I could, for my own good I guess ha. So up next I think I’ll write about how feeling like throwing up was a constant companion during the process-
