About
Barenaked App is the online diary of the building of our second web app, Amigo.
It’s an idea that we came up while we were at SXSW this year. We attended a panel on Convergence where Robert Scoble talked about how he had filmed some product managers at Microsoft ‘just doing their job’ and how he wished that Porsche would document the making of its next car in the same way. ‘I would definitely read that blog!’ as Scoble put it.
Well, we’re not Porsche, or Microsoft but we figured that size shouldn’t matter when it comes to letting everyone in on the hows and whys of product creation. And so Barenaked App was born - a place to document the planning, design, coding and marketing of our second web app.
So how bare will we get? The answer is, down to the pants (or underpants if you’re not English). We will be revealing all of our costings, the reasons behind our decisions, why we chose to work with the people we did and of course the embarrassing mistakes we made along the way.
We hope that this little window on our world fills you with inspiration to build your own app. There will be triumphs and of course disasters, but one thing is sure, you’ll have a front-row seat for all of them all.
We hope you like it.
Ryan & Gill
Carson Systems
P.S. Thanks to Dave Shea for the extremely flattering photo of us
[…] (Update: I’ve just read the About page and it turns out that it does say that the only thing they won’t reveal until launch is what the app does). […]
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La nascita di Hey Amigo…
Nell’epoca in cui ci si condivide via rss pure la ragazza nasce barenakedapp.com ossia un blog che spiega passo passo tutti gli step che porteranno alla nascita la futura web application Amigo.
Da notare come sono indicate tutte le fasi del prog…
Trackback by Melodycode.com — May 30, 2006 @ 5:48 am
[…] Bare Naked App - This is Ryan and Gil Carson (yes, of Carson Workshops and Vitamin) blogging all of the juicy details as they are going about building their second web app, Amigo. This stuff is priceless - you won’t find it in tech books, you won’t find it elsewhere; absolutely fantastic info I plan to steal every line read over intently. If you are going to build a web app as your micro-ISV’s offering. Read. This. Blog. […]
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