To 'thank him'? The guy makes huge bank on speaking and his books, which is deserved. He gets paid for his work, and for that he can pay for the work he receives. 'Let's work for free for a rich guy' is hardly what I call a good idea.<p>This isn't a dig on Seth, either, he's a great writer and solid thinker. He deserves what he makes, but I have a serious problem with giving free IP and sweat to a guy who can afford bespoke software.
Great idea - I'm absolutely in. However it will be even greater if we take inspiration from Seth's post: building for "beauty", "wonderful", experience, uniqueness etc. That's why we should start with overall design (not only graphics). You code is nice sign of effort and engagement. Now let's use it build something extraordinary. Especially as it's nice, ambitious case: how to make something so trivial like blog reader into valuable thing. So let's start brainstorming the 'problem' we're going to solve with that app. I've got two: 1. Seth's posts are often burned by truckloads of other posts in my 'Favourite' stream. 2. His insights deserve better (than typepad, gReader) visual presentation. What other can we identify?
I also think he would love this collaboration rather than choosing between 40 candidates and throwing the work of 39... I'll put my stone to it, hope it'll reach Seth's ears !