I just got finished with DevLink 2010. DevLink is a yearly conference for software developers in Nashville. This was my first year at DevLink and I was truly inspired by the experience. In fact, I’m so inspired that I decided to get serious about an app idea I’ve been batting around. I’m posting this here for accountability. I need your help to stay on task. If you like the idea, let me know you expect to see something from it. I’m pretty sure if I know people are counting on me, I will work hard to be sure I don’t let them down!
I’m tired of saying to my friends, “I want to see that movie,” and quickly forgetting. I might even say that I want to see it when it comes out on video, but I don’t make a habit of going to the video store so I miss it that way as well. Then, five months later I’m the only guy at a party who hasn’t seen it. So, my idea is to create an app that helps me remember movies I want to see and reminds me when they are available (and on what medium).
My plan today is to produce this app in stages. Here’s a break-down.
- Create a web app.
- Add a mobile-friendly implementation of the same web app.
- Re-use code from web app’s domain for iPhone app.
- Re-use code from web app’s domain for Android app.
- See where that takes me.
I’m going to be developing this app using .NET 4.0 and C#. My reason for that, besides the fact that the .NET stack is my back-yard, is because I can create a great, well-designed, loosely-coupled, web app using ASP.NET MVC2 and then turn around and re-use my domain layer on nearly any other platform with Mono.
You are my customer. If you’re reading this, I’m talking to you. Let me know what you think. Shoot me an email, a DM @sommardahl, and a comment. Expect to see something on this soon!
For sneak peeks, check out http://flicktrap.com.
Source can be found on GitHub at http://github.com/bsommardahl/FlickTrap.
