great idea…how quick can you go from idea to live???

Ran into this article over on Techcrunch about a small company in the UK that set out to build a web app in four days (32 hours). Meet Matt.

The result was Matt and the article outlines some great reasons why you should do it this way and how to keep the creativity an enthusiasm overflowing. Nice to see them encouraging people to take lunch, something I remember seeing in an article about working for Jason Calacanis is that developers away from their pc is not something he wants, Carsonified on the other hand see the need for taking a break. Mind you I gues Calacanis is allowed to lay down the rules his way given his success.

It is probably a little bit of licence to say that the app took 32 hours, given that the team of people ran to 9 people so it wouldn’t be considered 32 man hours. The other thing it doesn’t lay out is the actual hours people worked to achieve this. Still the concept and the lessons are true enough and we can now all look forward to taking a few days off the real job to create our own Jane, Bob, or Peter.

Good luck, worth a try.