There are only a few web apps I think can be useful within this 3 hour construct. I think it's much better to develop a web app that takes about a weekend or maybe 2 to complete. You get something with a lot more value and can truly extend your ideas outward. Furthermore, a weekend still provides the construct of "fast."
Building a web app in 3 hours will leave you at best with something like threewords.me or its clones. While those can go viral, they rely heavily on luck. Why not spend 2 hours and build a beautiful and captivating launch page for an idea that would take you a weekend or two to build. Then, spend 1 hour reposting it everywhere and try to get feedback. This way, you can see if the concept itself gets any traction.
We would like to think it should be possible to create useful webapps in Akshell within 3 hours and are working to create a set of libraries and standard components to make this possible. See our (old) screencast for an example: http://vimeo.com/11831303
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There are only a few web apps I think can be useful within this 3 hour construct. I think it's much better to develop a web app that takes about a weekend or maybe 2 to complete. You get something with a lot more value and can truly extend your ideas outward. Furthermore, a weekend still provides the construct of "fast."
Building a web app in 3 hours will leave you at best with something like threewords.me or its clones. While those can go viral, they rely heavily on luck. Why not spend 2 hours and build a beautiful and captivating launch page for an idea that would take you a weekend or two to build. Then, spend 1 hour reposting it everywhere and try to get feedback. This way, you can see if the concept itself gets any traction.
We would like to think it should be possible to create useful webapps in Akshell within 3 hours and are working to create a set of libraries and standard components to make this possible. See our (old) screencast for an example: http://vimeo.com/11831303