My Dream App
Posted by Brett Tackaberry on September 6th, 2006
There’s an interesting contest just getting underway called My Dream App. What is it? The contest hopes to attract hundreds (but likely thousands) of ideas for new Mac applications and have the community - the site’s users and a team of judges - cull the entrants into a short list of finalists. When it’s all said and done, finalists will walk away with prizes like iPods and Macs but three lucky winners will receive a contract to develop their ideas into full-blown shareware applications with royalties for life. Sounds like a great concept and I’m certain more than three new stellar Mac apps will come out of it.
What really attracted me to the contest was one of the first three finalists selected today. Herald, by Bogumil Giertler, is an RSS feed aggregator (wait - don’t stop reading!) that lets users build “newspapers” out of their feeds using a drag-and-drop technique. Create, share, export to PDA or iPod - brilliant. I’m a big fan of anything that can help flatten out the RSS learning curve and bring it a bit closer to the masses.
