My Dream App: The Vote is Over
Saturday, October 28th, 2006The Final round of MDA came and went. Victories were celebrated, dreams were crushed. Those of you who took the time to vote after my plea Wednesday, Thank you. It was a close and exciting vote.
The final winners were Atmosphere, Portal, and Cookbook. Hijack was in fourth, by only 5 votes! Unfortunately Whistler was a little further behind, and Blossom had the unfortunate job of holding down the final position.
In addition, there was some unexpected and unfortunate drama after the round finished, due to some fraudulent votes. This was quite unfortunate, but seems to have been handled well (in my opinion).
The MDA experience is far from over. In fact, anyone is welcome to continue following the development of the three winning ideas into final applications. I’ll be posting updates here infrequently, when something particularly newsworthy or interesting happens. If you’re interested in seeing a behind-the-scenes of how shareware / software is developed, it might be worth your time to follow along. Head over to the forums, I’ll see you there. 
One last thing of note: Though only three app ideas were winners and awarded publishing contracts, several other ideas were very strong and had great community support. There is a good chance, because of that, that some of the other apps will get picked up by other development teams. I’ll be featuring that news here as well. So far there is nothing official, but rumor has the following apps being looked into: Hijack, Whistler, Blossom, and Ground Control (4th-7th place in the MDA vote results). Hijack has a particularly active group of supporters, with rough work-ups of code already in progress! Ground Control has a great forum live and starting to hop with action. I’ll be doing my best to support Whistler‘s development, though I can’t imagine a professional team not taking advantage of that idea.
Those of you who have been patiently waiting for other-than-MDA content on my blog, your patience will soon be rewarded. :) Thanks for sticking around – and let me know in the comments what you’d like to hear more about!
