About

I'm Matt and in 2009 I launched this blog to write about building iPhone apps at the beginning of the Apple App Store in 2008. People where eager to learn how to code apps and how to market and sell apps on the App Store. Everyone was excited to have the oppurtunity to create an independent app or game company from their garage, bedroom, or local coffeeshop.

The first post on this blog was written on January 16th, 2009 after I had spent the past nine months learning how to use a Mac, program in Objective-C, and launch my first app on the Apple App Store.

One of my goals with this website was to promote a new book I was working on that at time have people a blue print to help them develop, implement, and build an app for the time time. This was inspired by my mentors at Internet Business Mastery who had encouraged me to take a chance to start my own company and leave my 9-5 job which I did in the previous November.

This blog, the ebook, and the apps I built led to publishing contracts with Apress and teaching contracts with iPhone Boot Camp. This all gave me an opportunity to travel and meet software developers from all over. It was a formative experience for me as a person and as a coder. I managed to keep the momentum going until 2014, but by then the market had shifted and I was burned out so I pivoted to a career as a data scientist, winded down the business, and let the blog go.

After a few years had passed and I had recharged, I came to regret letting go of my business and all I had accomplished. Especially this blog. Other people took over the URL and basically used it as a link farm and that always bothered me.

This brings us to today and the end of the story. In the Spring of 2024 I was distracted at work and found out that this URL was once again available. So I did my best to outbid everyone and secured howtomakeiphoneapps.com once again.

As I'm writing this in the early Fall of 2024, I've managed to get most of my old content back from old backups and the Way Back Machine. I'm working on restoring what I already have and considering some new projects as well.