So, it finally happened. My team and I got Codeless into the App Store. I started writing Codeless off the side of my desk in I had a couple weeks between projects, and I thought there was no way this could take more than a couple of weeks to prove the concept. It got decent laughs last night and tonight.
Twice a week I go to a bar, have someone mis-pronounce my name, and then face the gauntlet of public speaking engagements. The waiting. This morning it went into review. Everybody cross your fingers. I just got back from a couple of weeks in Peru. Today is the 20th anniversary of the iMac.
Those gumdrop coloured balls of joy that brought the Mac back to being trendy. But I remember seeing a Blue Dalmation iMac on a trip to Vancouver, and it was absolutely eye-catching. I remember stopping on the sidewalk and staring into a store window with my jaw somewhere near the sidewalk.
I used to go to the office with my Dad after supper. He had work he wanted to do. I grew up in a Mac household, because my family was in printing, and I caught grief on it from my friends. When I started getting into coding, nobody else really knew what Hypercard was and why it was so cool.
So I went online and found friends who cared about the same computer I cared about. When I was thinking about what project I wanted to pour myself into next, Codeless appealed to me. An app where you build apps β that seems more like something an Apple or an Adobe should do. Which made it the perfect project for me and my tiny development team.
