Looking at MJ’s post about Airwolf or Blue Thunder, I figure it’s worth talking a bit about our first product. It’s called SyncBridge, which I hope is an obvious representation of what it does: it provides a synchronisation bridge between users (in this case, iCal users).
We’ve been working on this product since late last year. Although it might not be 100% clear, I’m based in Australia, and MJ is based in Northern Ireland. We’ve not actually spoken to each other in several years – all our contact is via iChat. Also, MJ’s role is not as a developer, so he’s been kind of in the dark as to what’s been going on. He can see all the code I’ve written, and the amount of time and effort spent on producing stuff, but until very recently it’s all been vapourware.
So, it was nice to be able to suprise him with a quick video on “Here’s what using SyncBridge currently looks like.” As he mentioned in his more recent post it’s not quite pretty enough for public consumption – I’d hate to put people off by showing them something half-baked. I think we had a post earlier about how Joel Spolsky won’t go back to 30boxes because they weren’t sufficiently baked–I’ve a feeling the Mac community is even tougher than Joel in some respects (I know MJ is ;-)).