In summer 2006, the My Dream App site was launched: it was a new concept, the purpose being to collect everyone’s ideas about a dream app on Mac OS X, make a first selection of the best 24, and, after multiple rounds of a voting process, choose the best three, that will be developed from professionals into real applications.
Unsurprisingly, the Mac community replied en masse to the call: over 2.500 projects have been presented, and find the best 24 has been really hard for the staff! And, only three of them will end up on our Macs, while the others… well, they’re still good ideas, otherwise they wouldn’t have made the top, so why not develop (some of) them too?
Those were my thoughts: I am a professional Mac programmer, so I definitely have the skills to contribute to many of them. However, I’m also full-time employed, so I definitely didn’t have the time to follow properly the most complex ones (pity!).
Then, BubbleFish hit my imagination: it wasn’t a revolution, in a sense, some of it was already there, some on other platforms, but it had the potential to become a really useful nice utility for all of us. Plus, it could be a good tutorial of many technologies embedded into OS X (some coming even from NEXTSTEP): coupled with a blog, to illustrate the development process and collect the ideas, the potential is even higher.
After some exchange with Peter, the author, and the other guys on the MDA forum, here we are, ready to start! The Sourceforge project is up, I’m heading forward, let’s see what comes out…
