Sounds great, I cant wait! Keep up the good work!

Good luck on your app

This all is so amazing.

Fun idea! Will any public voting be involved?

Praveen, yup. Definitely.

Awesome idea, now if only I had ONE dream app I could think of.. There are so many!
I'm sure the ideas will be interesting to read through, can't wait to see who wins.
Good luck to all of us non-developers

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First... Great idea!

Secondly... Great panel of judges as well as developers/designers...

Third... DAMN!!!

This is so great Phill, I can't believe you've got all these names on board. Nice work man!

Awesomeness ;D

Oh this is going to be amazing! I can't wait!

PS: You've been dugg http://digg.com/apple/My_Dream_App_Coming_Monday_Final_Details

That is one awesome list of judges. Pretty much everyone important to Mac except current Apple employees.

What about the guy who has a good idea but you "judges" decide not to do it and then 3 months later the app is created by someone else who stole the idea !!!! Why would someone give you their cool idea and risk having it rejected cause you "judges" didn't see the "coolness" in it. And please don't say that if it's cool then it'll a winner. We've seen many times in history where "cool" apps or inventions aren't "accepted" right way by certain people.

Are you looking just for consumer app ideas? Or would you consider educational or pro app ideas too?

Also, does it have to be a self-contained application? Or would you consider a plugin to another app?

Matt, consumer app ideas would probably do best, as ultimately it's the users who vote and decide which ones make it.

Chezpaul! If this is such a problem for you go to http://cocoalab.com/cocoalab/index.php download the tutorial and write the app yourself.

Alright, so you've got a hugely impressive judge lineup.  

But who's going to be coding this "dream app?"

Inquiring minds want to know.

I guess my question is: How secret does the idea stay ? And How much input does the winner get in the building process.

Thanks Ben but I don't think that answers my question.

Hey, nice link, thanks Ben

Chezpaul, the 24 'finalists' will have their ideas made public (so people can vote), so there is a chance of a developer 'ripping them off'. However, you can be sure that I would raise hell about it, and I think most developers would think twice before risking their reputation, and probably just see if the contestant would be interested in working with them. In fact, I've already talked to three or four developers who are interested in hooking up with runners up after they are eliminated.

Also, the winners have as little or as much input in the developmental process as they want.

Sweet sassy mollasy! I have a ton of projects that are just itching for this thing. Can't wait!

I have just one idea but it's a damn good one (my own personal thoughts of course). Stupid idea too and would be bought up right away by some company I know... So it's not a consummer app.

Phill, would you consider having all applications avaiable for viewing (including those that don't win nor are runners up)? There are a lot of devleopers out there looking for ideas and this would be a great way to get some apps written which people would actually use!

I second 'bri3d's comment - who is going to be working on said "dreamapp"?

bahen, we'll only be making the 24 finalists viewable, in part to protect the rest from getting stolen. (The more there are, the easier it is to steal an idea without anyone noticing.)

Hey Bahen I got a great idea...
haha...

What about having entries licensed under the creative commons?

Who specs out the program? Who has final say on issues? Who would own it? Would it be made freely available (GPL) or some other license? What programming languages would be used to create it? What platform would it be targeted at?

Wow. You guys really have an all-star list of names attached to this. I'm impressed!

This is incredible! This might just be my chance at getting a MAC finally! The royalties wouldn't be bad either!

My problem is always opposite of this. I have the skills to implement any idea I may have, but never have any great ideas.

That's a fantastic idea. Can't wait until launch!

The most amazing part of it all was the marketing and PR you've done which resulted in getting all these people on board. Very impressive.

What are you going to do if you get duplicates of great ideas?

Holy shit. I can't wait.

Wow! I was impressed by you getting Kevin Rose on board, but you got so many more impressive people aswell, thats insane. I really like this "My Dream App" thing, I hope I can come up with a good idea as I can't code to save myself.

Wait, if someone gives you a really good idea and you develop it into an app and make hundreds of thousands what do they get?

Or do you just make it and hand it over to them?

Steven, "royalties for the winners". You'll see Monday.

Wow, what a tease!
Btw, good choice of Jon Hicks, he'll be quite handy to have around. Can't wait to see what's up Mon...

It sounds like a neat idea. Good luck with it.

However, I hope you have some plan on how to best allow developers (potentially) spread across the world to work together. In my experience, not working in the same office as, or at different times to, your colleagues is very difficult, as you can't throw ideas around and discuss them.

Прикольно, но нет времени переводить.........я доволен

Will it be just ported for Macs ?
I'm asking this as I'm guessing this will be digged and a bunch of people will be ready this and submiting... Don't you think ?

This is a wonderful idea. I do worry, though, that it lends itself to favor "snazzy" apps instead of useful ones.

A similar thing has been done in the past for features in a project (instead of apps) and the problem with the voting was that features that were obviously cool but maybe not that useful got an incredible amount of votes, while features that were really useful but maybe weren't as cool or weren't understood by the users (because maybe they weren't as easy to grasp) got to the bottom of the pile.

Something like this may happen here as well, if you're not careful (I guess it depends on who is doing the voting and how it's done). Someone with amazing photoshop skills or wonderful writing aptitude could make a mediocre application sound like the bee's knees, while somebody else may have poor writing or PS skills and thus not get their idea properly understood, even if it's a great, revolutionary idea.

That's the first thing that comes to my mind any time voting is made the way of choosing features. It may be my background in corporation app development (where the biggest thing in a meeting may be the colour of an icon, as that's as far as the voters understood), which have made me cynical. I do trust implicitly almost all the people involved, though, so I'm still waiting on how this turns out.

I think this is a great opportunity for people who don't know how to code or design an application properly.The one thing I didn't get yet - Is this contest for web applications or desktop applications?

Nicely said Eduo. I think you're right on target. I can totally see this happening.
I was hoping only the panel would vote..
We'll see.

All that's needed now is a TV Show!!!

I have a dream - app . An email client application that incorporates emoticons, stationary and sound for the Mac. Similar, but not identical, to "IncrediMail" on the PC side. The closest I've found on the Mac side thus far is "Balzac," which uses views instead of folders for mail. Though interesting, it wasn't quite what I had in mind .

Thank you Don, I will make sure to submit that as my idea when the site is released.

I can't tell if Don Parr is being sarcastic or not... emoticons, stationary and sound in an email client all sound like bad, bad ideas to me.

My Dream App already exists, several in fact. A killer app should be transparent, and make you productive. It should be as natural as a hammer is for hitting nails.

Just in the way it mimicks X Factor, I see this competition going the same way. All the genuine talent (and productivity apps) will be weeded out in the name of hype and cool. In the end people are left with something with a pretty face, but absolutely no substance, destined to sell a billion copies entirely off of the produced hype wave in the competition.

A real app should be firmly fixed in reality. One of the most innovative apps I've seen recently is WriteRoom which has a great understanding of the importance of a tool, and productivity.

Kroc Camen You make some really good points, here in the uk we have X Factor. The X Factor and programmes very similar usually have a black finalist, but the public vote them out even though they tend to be the best singers. I think its sad that rascism still exists in this manner.

My Dream App hopefully wont make the mistake of choosing hype and cool over productivity, although hype and cool can come hand in hand with a good productivity app (quicksilver is a pretty good example of this). In My opinion the best apps are the ones which are useful and well polished, it hurts me to use an app which has good productivity but doesn't feel os x'y or looks really ugly.

"Chezpaul, the 24 'finalists' will have their ideas made public (so people can vote), so there is a chance of a developer 'ripping them off'. However, you can be sure that I would raise hell about it, and I think most developers would think twice before risking their reputation"

You sure think very highly of yourself, what makes you think that anybody gives a shit about what you say? You're nothing but a prepubescent teenager, as demonstrated by your post flaming Bryan Lund.

Also, why do you have a well-known GPL violator (Mr. David Watanabe) on your panel/team/whatever?

`shit man, WOZ, shittttt

James - Nice comments. You should clearly be the one giving lessons in maturity.

James, I mean I'll be raising hell about it on the site, My Dream App. People may not care about what I personally say, but it being a condemnation by MDA will hopefully hold some weight.

Bryan Lund, well, let's just say the story doesn't end there. I'll be posting something hopefully in a few days about some more proactive measures I've been undertaking.

Its Monday (for 2 hours here in central time zone). I wanna see please....

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