WOW - Blossom is a top favorite, thanks to your Round 1 votes!
To all Blossom voters: Let me know of features you would like to see in Blossom. I’ll review them from this and past comments in the next post. And, please get the word out to your friends for the next round of voting. Let’s move into the top three and see this Dream App get built!
Blossom was also a favorite of Jacqui Cheng at Ars Technica:
“Personally, the Atmosphere app and Blossom already kinda’ have me hot & bothered. What can I say, I’m a sucker for stuff on my desktop.”
Wow. Thanks Jacqui!
And check out these quotes from the Blossom Judge’s Comments:
Cabel Sasser - “I’m always thinking about clever ways to solve the problem of work procrastination. I’m one of these guys who will accomplish a task on my to-do list, then immediately take a reward of ten minutes of stupid web browsing, like a mouse eating a piece of e-cheese. Thus, I think this idea is really quite clever — if I know I’m going to be killing a beautiful flower on my desktop by arguing about video games on the internets for twenty minutes, I honestly (honestly!) might think twice about it and go back to work. It’s a great way to try to exercise on-task self-control in a fun way…”
Gus Mueller - “Wow, I really like this idea, and I can’t think of anything else out there like it. Nothing is cooler than an untapped area for programmers to explore.
Where I think Blossom would take root (haha) would be in the UI obviously. There’s so much room for neat ways to get the point across that you’re not living up to your own standards.”
And I can’t leave out David Watanabe’s comment:
“Weird enough to be great. That’s all I can say.” Word.
Thanks to all the Judges for your comments. If you’ve not had a chance to read them all, have a look here. Thanks again to everyone. Look for UI concepts and your favorite features listed in the next post.
