Keir recently came up with a really fun web app idea … so the whole team is taking a week off to build it. It’s going to be called ‘Matt’ and it’ll be built in Django on a popular API, include a desktop AIR app, and will be hosted on an elastic computing cloud (probably Flexiscale, but yet to be determined).
Those of you who have been following us for awhile will remember that we did something similar recently called Idea Week where we built HugMyMac.com. It was a blast and we’ve decided to do something similar again.
We’ve never built anything in Django, AIR or used elastic computing, so it’ll be fun to learn. It’ll also be a difficult but fun challenge for Mike to come up with a complete visual identity, site, web app interface and desktop interface - all in four days. Yikes.
We’ll be starting on June 30th, so I hope you’ll tune in for the adventure. If anyone is stopping by Bath, come on over to Carsonified HQ to say hello.
P.S. Thanks for the photo Scott
P.P.S. Any affiliation with Matt Mullenweg, WordPress extraordinaire, is entirely coincidental :)
David S.( @seemsArtless on Twitter )
June 19th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
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Hm, M.A.T.T.
Mac Air Twitter Tracker ?
Midford Ashwicke Tadwick Twerton ?
Gotta give this one more thought, but I’m looking forward to hearing about the progress and seeing the result.
Judson Collier
June 19th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
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Mullenweg is officialy creeped out :D.
Have fun, it sounds interesting.
Also, you should blog about your experience using django (vs whatever you usually use).
kevin
June 19th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
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ryan and the team - I look forward to following you guys on this project.
django is an amazing web framework, so you’ll have fun with that one.
Ryan
June 19th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
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Thanks guys - look forward to sharing how things work out.
Yaili
June 19th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
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More Apps To Twitter?
Jonathan Lane
June 19th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
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I’m betting on a Facebook app.
I haven’t a clue what it will do, but it will be foxy.
Andy
June 19th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
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This sounded like an excellent idea, can’t wait to give it a go. Good luck chaps.
Dave Stevens
June 19th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
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Me And The Team
Storming collaboration tool, that’s my guess.
Looking forward to following along :)
Nathan
June 19th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
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I’m thinking that we’re looking at a comms app. Connecting people called Matt from all over the globe.
Either that or some sort of cover for your Windows laptops made from used door mat(t)s. Mmm…
Michael Grinstead
June 19th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
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I’m just envious of anyone who’s a carsonite. Look forward to reading more about it.
As for the invitation to stop by, I’m about an hour & half drive away, it would be worth the trip (coffee included?) ;)
Ryan
June 19th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
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@Michael G. - You bet! Come on by, we’ve got coffee on tap :)
Matt
June 19th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
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Can I get a sneak preview? :)
Michael Grinstead
June 19th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
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Cool, well I might take you up on the offer :)
Ryan
June 19th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
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@Matt - thanks for stopping by. I’d be happy to give a litte preview. Hope you’re well - thanks again for the WordPress shirt for Jackson :)
Matt Lee
June 19th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
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Maybe, M.A.T.T? Kinda like D.A.R.Y.L, but without the Michael McKean…
Brad M
June 19th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
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Ryan - great news about the app - look forward to seeing it.
I’ve seen from recent tweets that a number of the team (the most established members to my knowledge) have left the company. How is that affecting the balance and has it made you review the company?
Ian S
June 20th, 2008 at 2:21 am
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It’s impressive the way you do this, constantly putting yourself and the company up there in the firing line, Ryan. The upside is that the business gets great exposure, but if your efforts go wrong, or are less than impressive (you know how critical “we” can be), it could really backfire. For what one person’s opinion is worth, I really admire your approach, and clearly you have many more hits than you have misses. What’s really inspiring is that you have an idea and see it through to completion - you “execute”. To me it’s fun, fresh, innovative, and exciting, and why your newsfeed remains in my list. A big “thank you” to you and the team.
Rob Mason
June 20th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
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There’s a worrying new trend here. First we get a TV channel called Dave. Then a yoghurt called Paula. Now a web app called Matt! When will the madness end?
Luke Anderson
June 20th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
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[…] To start off my blog properly first of all, I’m going to talk about web-apps. What are web-apps? Web-apps are normally small applications that run on the internet using online technology for example PHP or Ruby on Rails. Web-apps are normally quite interesting and Carsonified are going to release their new web-app “Matt” in a few days so here are some web-apps that I think are quite cool […]
Ryan
June 20th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
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@Ian S - Thanks for the kind words. We thought it’d be fun to set ourselves a real challenge and see what we learn. It’ll be fun.
cjagers
June 21st, 2008 at 4:03 am
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I’m all for fast messy iteration … but why the time constraint. Why not do it “right?”
Ryan
June 21st, 2008 at 8:37 am
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@cjagers It’s a very simple app so we’ll be able to do it right, don’t worry.
SuggestionBox.com
June 21st, 2008 at 8:53 am
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Cool to see another site developed in django.
Elliott
June 21st, 2008 at 12:24 pm
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Hopefully the next one we make will be K.I.T.T.
Roberto Alamos
June 24th, 2008 at 12:08 am
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Will really love to see this new django app. Django is such an amazing web dev framework, and its facebook api is so fine (I suspect this new carsonified app will go on facebook), that I’m sure the final product will be really great.
BTW, I have some years of experience on django development, if you need some help don’t hesitate to ask ;)
Ollie Kavanagh
June 25th, 2008 at 9:52 am
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Will check this out whilst I’m on holiday, sounds great….. wish we did stuff they like this at our work ;-/