Delicious Monster


Wow. It's great to see that there are still programmers living the dream, that they're not all grinding away writing tedious functional specs for some convoluted bag of features that somebody thinks will magically coalesce into the next killer app...

Whine about software offshoring if you must. But before you do, take a good look at what the guys from Delicious Monster put together. According to this Apple Developer Connection article, founder Wil Shipley put together their Delicious Library product in about 8 person-months of programming effort. When you look at the innovations this product boasts, such as its polished super-easy GUI, and integrating iSight camera software to scan the bar codes of your books, CDs, and DVDs, that's one breathtaking achievement.

But hey, it's just the little Apple market, right? Maybe so, but that means that the Big Software Companies have almost ignored it, making it a great frontier for small, clever development shops like Delicious Monster. According to the Apple article, Delicious Library pulled in $250,000 in its first month!

Read about this company, and remember the dream.

Myself, I need to read up on those Cocoa bindings. It sounds like these could really clean up some of the code TinyELF uses to keep the debug windows all synchronized with the current virtual CPU. Wish there was some money in it...

Posted: Mon - January 10, 2005 at 07:54 AM          

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