I can not tell you how many people thought we were lunatics when they found out that Josh had quit his job, our only source of income, AFTER we had gotten married. We didn't have a place of our own, and we couldn't afford a place of our own either. And we made an agreement with Josh's father that after we had gotten married, we would move out. When Josh sent his boss an email stating that he would be leaving in a couple of weeks, his boss offered him a promotion making almost $10,000 more a year and to work from home every other Friday. Josh considered taking him up on the offer and working for 6 more months to get rid of more debt. When he texted me back and forth from his desk asking "What do you think I should do?" I answered "I think you should quit."
This is the life of an App Developer's Wife.
Josh quit his job to pursue his dream of being a self employed app developer. He wanted to create something that people loved and would want on their iPhone, and he wanted to do it for money. His goal was to live off of what he created. I supported his dream, and I had faith in him and what I knew he could do.
Josh inspired me when I first met him, and he continues to inspire me even now. And I've always believed that he could do something really outstanding. He's too smart to work for anyone else but himself, and he doesn't have a High School Diploma.
Yes. I told him to quit. Because we're too young to put our dreams on hold and pick them back up once we retire. There's too much beauty in the world to see. There's too many people we haven't met, encouraged, ministered to, laughed with, etc... There's too much life to be had to hang it on a hook to enjoy later. Plus he studied iOS Development for years! And here we were with a lump of money given to us from the wedding that we could easily live off of for a couple of months and pay off a chunk of our debt. It doesn't get any better than that. What we needed was time to learn, time to build, time away from distractions. So, Josh quit his 9 to 6 job, and we packed our stuff and moved out of his father's house, and ran away to Tennessee for a couple of months and stayed with Josh's mother and other siblings.
Josh buckled down and finished over 15 tutorial videos (some lasting an hour) over the 3 weeks. He looked at his old app that he had asked to take off of someone else's hands. iTextspeed. And decided to rebuild it, translate it into a more readable language (Swift), and make it easier to use. He decided to make an iTextSpeed 2.
And the nights have been long, and mornings were non-existent. I struggled to stay awake with him, as he typed away long past 2 in the morning. Josh's determination was made of steel.
I made a attempt to learn Swift and quite a few tutorials on Core graphics, UIDynamics, and other animations (because that's the part of coding that interests me, plus I love the math that's involved.) I am rather proud to say that I am the one that made the graph on the results page of iTextSpeed. And in the upcoming iTextSpeed 2, I made the speedometer that can be found on the results page. Yes, you've read that correctly, we haven't submitted iTextSpeed 2 yet. Our goal was for it to be out and in the App Store by the beginning of August... it is now August the 25th and down to our last week in Tennessee. We are tying loose ends, catching last minute bugs, and trying to learn marketing overnight. You have to be crazy to want to be an App Developer, but mind you, me and Josh are a couple of lunatics.
Since I know you guys must be curious by now to see who is this magnificent man I married, I invite you to take a look at him. He's rather adorable but over all, very inspirational. I'm excited to see what he does with his very own webpage especially when he writes the story of how he got a hold of iTextSpeed which I promise, IT'S WORTH READING!
The App Developer's Wife. She's a dame at home for sure. She's massaging her husband's shoulders when he gets stuck on a "Build Fail" issue. She's spreading butter over bread for him when he says he hasn't eaten anything yet. She wakes up in the middle of the night and notices that he's not in bed yet, and goes fishing for him in the dark.
Yes. Hello World. We are The App Developer's Wives.
