irooster VS transmit

I just published the source code for the first app I ever built, all the way back in 2003: https://github.com/aaronbrethorst/irooster

It "turns your Mac into a $2,000 alarm clock."

I originally made it because I had endless amounts of trouble waking up for my morning classes in college, and found that the only alarm that could get me up was a subwoofer right underneath my bed. So I hooked a 2.1 speaker system up to my Mac, wrote a little app to start playing an iTunes playlist at a particular time, and ended up productizing it.

It was never a huge commercial success; I think the best I ever did with it was about $2,000 in sales one month after Apple featured it in a newsletter (different times!), but it taught me several important lessons about building a commercial software product that still guide me today.

Enjoy checking out my super janky code!

Back when I was in college me and a few classmates put together a site where you could share files with others using a link. Looking back at it, there are so many issues with the code, from just about every perspective. Up until recently i still kept it as an item on my resume, described something like "my first web app project, preserved with all it's bad code and questionable practices".

https://github.com/sgolovine/transmit