I agree, it is VERY cool. I thought of Tracks immediately when I read
the notice this morning too. Anyone writing a rails app at the moment
(and who isn't?!) will be having palpitations at the thoughts of the
now vastly expanded audience for their app...
On 2/05/2007, at 9:34 AM, Luke Melia wrote:
> Far out!!! This is very cool.
>
> How do we decide how much time to spend on this versus the next
> release?
I don't know what's in the next release (bsag's movie looks good
though). I'm thinking Slingshot does bring a quite different emphasis
- for new people downloading it, it'll may well be a desktop app
first and foremost. This is a different proposition than a web app,
and to make a success of this aspect of it, it's possible that we
need to think a bit more about what this really means. For example,
desktop app users will have different expectations than web app users
about how to use it, which may suggest UI and other changes.
Unfortunately I can't think of concrete examples right now. But if
bsag and Luke and the other contributors are keen to try Slingshot,
then my suggestion would be to first push out a stable release
containing all the new goodies... then some prototyping of the
updated stable version Tracks on Slingshot and observing how others
are using Slingshot with *their* web apps. This is ground-shifting
stuff, and maybe an extra step or two now will lead to World
Domination later. :-)
It does also suggest some variations on the hosted-Tracks model,
whereby new users could download the app, start using it locally...
and the first act of syncing creates the hosted, web-based version of
Tracks on a server. Alternatively, the user starts with the hosted
version, but at any time can have a "take me home" link where they
can download a version to use offline, complete with data and the
ability to sync back.
Dizzyingly cool, and I'm off to download Slingshot now... Other than
tracks, I'd love to see if this will work with something like Junebug-
wiki :-)
My 2% of $1.
later
Alan
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