59ideas

Over at Whitespace Paul Scrivens talk about setting up an idea in a weekend.

A while back I muse about rapid idea prototyping and also learnt, that the egoSurf idea was create in a day.

This is a start of instant applications?

Already Ning offers anyone with a little time, programming skill and imagination the tools to create social applications. But this is still using a web app. How about creating own web app?
There are alot of opensource tools that one could use to put together a quick prototype of an idea. What are some good tools you are using?
Why isn’t there alot of weekend apps we heard about?

One thing that has to change is the perfection mindset. Yes this is linked up with the idea of extreme programming maxim of releasing fast and often.

Perfection aside, there is merit in asking for quality before releasing.
Of course getting the idea out is one thing. Getting it to market and tuning the idea is a continuous as many sites out there can attest.