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Re: Coming up with ideas
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Re: Coming up with ideas


  • Subject: Re: Coming up with ideas
  • From: Grant Erickson <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 09:13:38 -0700
  • Thread-topic: Coming up with ideas

On 6/12/09 11:34 PM, Graham Cox wrote:
> On 13/06/2009, at 1:27 PM, WT wrote:
>> On Jun 13, 2009, at 4:36 AM, Graham Cox wrote:
>>> On 13/06/2009, at 12:30 PM, Development wrote:
>>>> Hey, how do you guys come up with ideas for new programs? I'm
>>>> going nuts trying to figure out what type of application I should
>>>> make.
>>>
>>> I wish I had your problem ;-) I come up with ideas for new apps
>>> several times a week. I'm going nuts trying to figure out how I'll
>>> ever find time to implement them without dozens of developers!
>>
>> care to share some of them? I'm sure lots of people like the OP and
>> myself, who are not as prolific in coming up with ideas as you are,
>> would be happy to take a shot at some of your ideas.
>
> Well, most of them reflect two things: a) my interests and b) the lack
> of certain categories of affordable software on the Mac.
>
> So these aren't necessarily original ideas, but I wish there were:
>
> a) really good CAD software that was in a hobbyists price-range but
> was of professional quality and a true OSX app, not a crappy port or
> half-baked shareware effort

While it is still not as good as Illustrator at what it does and still not
quite as good as Claris CAD at what it did, I found IlexSoft's HighDesign to
be reasonable value in this category. Download and checkout their demo, it
certainly bests VersaCAD, Graphite, AutoCAD, Canvas, PowerCADD, ArchiCAD,
MacDraft, and VectorWorks when considering both value and ease-of-use.

That said, there is still A LOT of room for improvement.

Regards,

Grant


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