The bomb

Can reading weblogs make you a small fortune? It might have in Panic's case.

Rands in Repose, September 3, 2004:

My impression is that while there are great prototyping tools for web applications, we still haven’t seen “the bomb” in terms of great web application development environment. I’m talking about a soup to nuts product where I’m not jumping between Terminal, BBEdit, and any number of browsers just to see if my primal application works on my development machine.

And suddenly on April 23, 2007, Coda appears. Funny that.

To the people who have asked me over IM to give them product ideas, I instead give you this advice: read people's weblogs and resolve their complaints.