Yea Your probably not my target audience if your comfortable with your setup but think about those that don't know lua or how to run a shell script from the command line. Not even mentioning what they need to know to get their game compiled and running on both iOS, and Android. For example, my younger brother came to me asking how he could make a game and the only way for him to technically build a game would be to learn some programming language like lua, as3 or something else, but I thought it would be great if he could just download a tool, create something and put it on the app store or share with his friends. As he continues to develop his technical skills he can grow with the tool and eventually write scripts to add more complex behavior if he wanted to. So the ease of use to get started and flexibility to extend the tool was key for me. Being able to get visual feedback and put your idea together really quickly instead of having to learn a bunch of stuff before you can even get started is compelling to me.
thanks @anonymoushn I agree, the interface could be simplified. The terms are more technical terms so that the concepts aren't watered down and to allow the user to get familiar with the lingo so that if they decided to add to their skill set or work with other programs they would have learned it here first. The fact that you have to type in values is a pain and noted, I want to add a browser for you to just select options that go in those fields instead of you having to enter them.
What do you think about the amount of environment setup that is not needed the ant build scripts and knowledge of frameworks that is not needed to get something up and running and very soon be able to deploy to mobile with a click of a button. Is that not a big time saver?
This is a realization that I hope business founders will soon come to realize, because without the engineers there is no company, there is no innovation or product to sell. So i agree, and developers should get equity!
Companies need to start taking on the virtual office model and start hiring developers from remote cities and even countries, you miss out on the social interaction of an office but good developers tend to get more done quicker when they can work from home and with flexible hours.
Ok great, how do you know if your YCombinator application was received? Or is it just no news means you were not considered? just curious, I know its still early...
Its not necessarily If I'm happy with my job but that burning desire to start a company doesn't go away. I just wonder if there are other sane people that would make that leap. :) To be an entrepreneur you face that decision at some point if you currently have a high paying job, I think its a good point that Jessica makes in her post that you can't really start a startup unless you focus on it. It can't really be that side thing...