My Dream App

Phew. That was an interesting experience.

I wrote a long blog entry. Expressing, with careful thought and considered verse, my thoughts on reaching the final.

However, I accidentally hit apple-Q and Safari vanished with impressive speed. Safari development team. how about not quitting instantly if a user has typed a lot of text into a website form?

My previous post in rapid form! :

All things revolve around compensation. We were stressed, relieved, excited & even on occasion, ambivalent. So even if there is the disappointment of Whistler not making the final cut. It’s inspiring to think of how Whistler sparked a fair few thoughts in a lot of minds.
I’ve also learnt a lot about marketing, PR. Mainly how much work they are and the significant part they play in the modern world. I assume the next round of MDA if it occurs will be even more competetive than this one. Good luck to anyone who finds themselve embroiled in that! It will be emotional.

Regarding the future of Whistler. Well the site is still there.
Whistler Website. See?

It’s interesting to see the other strong but non-winning ideas publicly lurch hopefully towards some kind of development process. I’ve been told many times via email that I should be pushing to get Whistler made. Well this puts me in an interesting dilemna. I didn’t enter mydreamapp.com to get intto the world of software development. The entire remit of the competition is to take that burden away from budding imagineers.
Believe it or not, the mydreamapp conceptualising experience was a fair amount of work. Which as deep a learning experience as it was, I was glad to see come to an end so I could return to my other projects which had been deserted 2 long months ago.

So the idea of taking Whistler even further and becoming deeply involved in the long-term, logistial aspects & risks of a non-MDA related, actual software development project doesn’t factor into my plan for the next few years.

Of couse that doesn’t mean I don’t want to see Whistler made by a team of highly paid, reputable code-design-ninjas (some with beards) who I could hassle on a weekly basis with the minutiae of my auteuristine Whistler visions. :) (and made up words).

So yeh. Again with the ‘phew’.

Now it’s my turn to make demands. Someone take on Puppeteer. It’s an awesome idea.

I’ll just point your attention to some interesting posts regarding Whistler.

Forum poster leoinnyc wrote an interesting rebuttal to the judges opinions. It certainly sums up the base concept behind Whistler perfectly. I’m glad somebody gets it! :)

leoinnyc on whistler

Someone has posted Whistler to *that* website. tssk tssk! ;)

Digg it I guess

Lastly an interview with me on a Brazilian website. I don’t think I’ve ever been
translated before…an appreciated first.

Interview

Not much to say really. It’s the main window but greatly simplified.

As it’s so simple. They key is to really drive home the current mode of the software via expressive animation. Letting the user know the tempo via the whole interface illuminating for instance. The Whistler icon letting you know he’s listening away…

Click for full version.

Someone mentioned an alternate, brighter interface. I’m not against that idea at all. In fact I like the idea a lot. However I’m not sure introducing a very different interface concept & style would be a good idea at this point.

Thank you all for your support so far. I”m trying to fit in as much Whistler time as possible before…JUDGEMENT DAY. etc.

Whistler Website

Haven’t been too bloguacious recently. I decided to take the voting period as a chance to chill out a little bit, seeing as the work to get the message out should be done before voting.

I’ll be back on the track that leads to a new mockup/updates/refinements soon.

Some interesting Judge comments. But nothing we haven’t heard/delt with before. Will be taken on board of course.
I want to make sure that the next round of Judges/Voters get the concept straight off the bat.

Lots of other similar programs have been popping up. Aside from the cool little concept testing app MIDIfier (see Whistler forum) I’ve been aware of all of these since before I came up with this idea. They are all too clumsy, too expensive, too not-working-on-osx and aimed at the wrong market.

Whistler is all about the Apple difference. Technology and fun in a tidy little package.

I think it’s best to be open about these things. A great article about the potential depth and breadth or Whistler by Rageous Music. Digg it so people can learn more about the potential of my ickle app idea. Whistler.

Digg Article

arigatou gozaimasu innit.