Spaghetti Products
19 Oct 2007What are “spaghetti products”? This phrase came to me as I was trading emails with John Cook from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer while he was working his piece, Ready, startup, go! Services built in cyberspeed, in which my project Catch the Best got a mention. It’s a play on the method of checking to see if your pasta is ready by throwing it against the wall and seeing if it sticks. A “spaghetti product” would be one you build quickly and throw out there to see if it sticks — or, in other words, to see if people will you pay you for it.
What do you think? Is it catchy?
As a programmer, spaghetti is the last word I want to describe my code.
Its also hard to get the ‘h’ in the right place, so typing it is tricky.
Yaw, for anyone close to code, spaghetti has a negative connotation. These quick-to-build-and-test products. But I like it a lot better than the phrase “cyberspeed”, which Cook used in the title. Blech.
Phlegm is sticky. So is velcro. And sticks.
I agree, nothing good comes from the word spaghetti… spaghetti westerns, spaghetti code, it’s all not good.
however, if you want to check for done-ness, you’d want your pasta to be al dente.
Al-dente code, may be a more ‘mad-lib’ kind of solution for your little quandary here.
the phrase is gpl’d and any mention must also mention my website…hehehe.
how about pastaware ;-P