January 2017 marks the tenth anniversary of being an independent developer. It all started in August 2006, when I got laid off by my employer\u00a0and found another job\u00a0that turned out to be very bad for me. So bad that I thought I would end up with a nervous breakdown so I had to do something about it.<\/p>\n
I resigned later in December, took a few weeks off during the holidays and started being my own boss in January 2007. Then a few weeks later the iPhone was announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n I still had to work\u00a0as a contracting web developer, which I hated but not as much as that last job. It wasn’t up until April 2008, when my application to the Apple Developer Program was approved, that I could finally do what I wanted: make my own<\/em> apps.<\/p>\n I was able to release two apps<\/a> for the July 11 App Store launch<\/a> and since then, I’ve been very fortunate to do what I love. Every year brings its challenges but I wouldn’t be doing anything\u00a0else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January 2017 marks the tenth anniversary of being an independent developer. It all started in August 2006, when I got laid off by my employer\u00a0and found another job\u00a0that turned out to be very bad for me. So bad that I thought I would end up with a nervous breakdown so I had to do something […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,3,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucvandal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucvandal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucvandal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucvandal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucvandal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucvandal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucvandal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucvandal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucvandal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}