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After creating my course, "From Side Project to Going Indie", I proudly announce a new podcast: "Going Indie with Antoine van der Lee". In this podcast, I'll be inviting Indie Creators who have already gone independent to let them share their story, experiences, challenges, and learnings. A new episode will ...

Many engineers dream of indie development, leaving a full-time job behind, embracing freedom, and solely focusing on personal apps. While it's a dream, it's also a difficult step to take, especially if you're going indie cold turkey without having any sources of income yet. Therefore, after announcing my decision to ...

Switching careers from having a full-time job to going fully independent after transforming multiple side projects into six-figure revenue. In March 2024, I decided to leave WeTransfer after 7,5 years, fully focusing on SwiftLee, RocketSim, and courses. The journey starts by introducing my first course, From Side Project to Going ...

Statistical significance tells you whether the result from an experiment is likely attributable to the specific change you did. It's an essential quantification when running app experiments, and it prevents you from concluding too early about a change you've made. I've been running hundreds of experiments throughout my career and ...

Time flies when you're having fun, and 2023 has definitely been one of those years. It's been a year full of achievements, international conferences, and many articles & newsletters. It's also been the year of Apple Vision Pro, Xcode 15, and Swift 5.9. If you follow my newsletter, you'll know ...

Another year passed by, and we're close to getting into 2023. It's been a year with a single Swift 5.7 release, Xcode 14, new SwiftLee products, and many articles. I always enjoy looking back on the year and realizing what I've achieved, hopefully inspiring others for the year to come ...

One of the best years for Swift is close to reaching its end. Time flies when you're having fun, and I can tell you that we've had enough reason to enjoy developing with Swift this year. Big releases like Xcode Cloud and the new Swift Concurrency changes have set the ...

With 2019 coming closer it's time to review SwiftLee in 2018 and list the top swift development blog posts of this year. The best thing about this all is that I can say that I've reached thousands of fellow Swift developers and possibly inspired or taught them with something they ...