Creative Scrape: An Inspiration Utility

I hate feed readers. The idea for creativescrape was midwifed by that hate (a fiery, passionate hate it is).

Like email, feed readers are almost exclusively uniform—and uniformly bad. They try to make everything in the world fit into the same mold, however cramped and unpleasant it may be.

As developers we naturally find this kind of pure, perfect abstract to be intellectually orgasmic, but as designers we must naturally find it impractical and even repugnant.

Thomas and I planned out creativescrape and it took us a longer than a day in terms of calendar days to finish it, but I doubt the time, thus divided, added up to more than two "man" days total.

(My belief in small projects? Still going strong. They're a release valve, gratification, practice opportunity, test of theory and self-promotion all wrapped up in one. Just fucking ship, indeed.)