Build for Yourself: A Top App Dev Interview with Drew Wilson
Check out our interview with Drew Wilson, prolific indie software developer. Learn how he works, how he got started, and his best piece of advice! By Cesare Rocchi.
To Infinity and Beyond
Can you give us a glimpse of your next product?
Filtron! The tag line is: “Create and share your own photo filters.” The idea is to make Filtron THE platform for photo effects.
Filtron
For now, this means creating them and sharing them with others for free. Later, it will mean that anyone can integrate with Filtron to have access to tens of thousands of filters for their apps. That might seem like too many filters, but we already have discovery and search stuff built in. So you can easily surface the best filters or newest, etc.
There is a lot planned, and this really is just the beginning. I stripped out a number of features just so I could get this thing out. So there will be more added to it once it is out.
What advice would you give to a teenager who wants to build software products for a living?
Start now. Spend time learning and practicing. The best way to do that is build things for yourself.
Also, build small so you can finish things. Eventually you will be able to build bigger things. Just start building!
Where To Go From Here?
And that’s a wrap for the interview! Many thanks to Drew Wilson for letting us peek into his work. It’s always interesting to see where devs got their start, how they work now, and what’s in their future. Good luck with all your projects, Drew!
We hope you all enjoyed the interview, and … why are you still reading? Didn’t you read Drew’s advice? Start building!
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