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