Joel optomised this article so well it was published in "October 2007"!
I watched Aardvark after purchasing a copy and was probably responsible for some of the fun Joel describes sending the DVD, OS. One of the things that struck me watching the film was the project was just so straightforward. It was bland. I don't know if it was because the programmers where so good? Joel was overseeing the specification? The idea was predefined? There was no coding frenzy of Coderush, no blood in the water like Startup.com. No grungy craziness of e-dreams.
Then again maybe thats the point. A great example of "software management" in releasing a version 1 product. The movie was still like eating cardboard though. (5.5/10)
That movie is really great -- the title is perfect. I think it's basically a lesson in what not to do. Two non-hackers start a company and skip the make-a-great-product stage completely. Watching them it feels like borderline fraud.
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I bought Spolsky's "Aardvark" documentary and enjoyed it a lot, but I wish it had more YC in it. I wish YC funded two guys to make a documentary about YC. If the guys were good at it maybe they could create a product around that. Maybe something that makes it easy for "normal" people to make documentaries.
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1. Wargames. 2. Pirates of Silicon Valley. 3. Aardvark (cool documentary)
Joel optomised this article so well it was published in "October 2007"!
I watched Aardvark after purchasing a copy and was probably responsible for some of the fun Joel describes sending the DVD, OS. One of the things that struck me watching the film was the project was just so straightforward. It was bland. I don't know if it was because the programmers where so good? Joel was overseeing the specification? The idea was predefined? There was no coding frenzy of Coderush, no blood in the water like Startup.com. No grungy craziness of e-dreams.
Then again maybe thats the point. A great example of "software management" in releasing a version 1 product. The movie was still like eating cardboard though. (5.5/10)
- coderush http://www.amazon.com/Code-Rush/dp/B00004T128
- startup.com http://en.wik ipedia.org/wiki/Startup.com
- edreams http://www.kosmo.com/blogs/TimsBlog/2004/04/
That movie is really great -- the title is perfect. I think it's basically a lesson in what not to do. Two non-hackers start a company and skip the make-a-great-product stage completely. Watching them it feels like borderline fraud. -- I bought Spolsky's "Aardvark" documentary and enjoyed it a lot, but I wish it had more YC in it. I wish YC funded two guys to make a documentary about YC. If the guys were good at it maybe they could create a product around that. Maybe something that makes it easy for "normal" people to make documentaries.