Zero2Beta: Intense Web Application Design & Development
Zero2Beta is a new experiment launched by SpinBits and CloudAppers on intense design and development of a useful web application from concept to launch in a couple of days, and releasing it to the public.
With agile development platforms like Rails and the back-to-basics approach to applications, the time to design, develop and launch an application has become impressively short; Zero2Beta is a collaboration effort that aims to push this to the extreme and create something from scratch in a couple of days time only.
It enforces the practice of coming up with a unique idea, designing an application around it, deploying it and getting it out to the public as soon as possible. The idea is that the self-imposed limitations in terms of time and resources will eventually push the team to focus on what really matters and rise above trivial decisions to working on the absolutely necessary parts needed to have something working quickly.
The first application in this experiment, code-named “App1″, and which will be named “Next“, will kick off tomorrow.
A blog to document the different steps of the project has been setup at Zero2Beta; and a twitter account @zero2beta has been created too, so that people can follow the advancement of the project hourly throughout the next couple of days, with links to posts in addition to some photos and videos as well.
I think it’s a very interesting experiment, and am really looking forward to seeing the results of this collaboration between SpinBits and CloudAppers.
3 Responses to “Zero2Beta: Intense Web Application Design & Development”
Baher on Jul 23, 2008 | Reply
Thanks for mentioning the project, we’re very excited about it and hopefully we’ll come with something interesting and worthwhile.
We’ll see how it goes, 2 days to go.
za3tar on Jul 23, 2008 | Reply
Sounds very cool and interesting.