When, about 3 weeks ago, Hendrik asked me if I felt like joining their team to develop an application for the INCA-awards. I knew Patrick and Hendrik to be competent, enthousiastic and just the right amount of crazy, so I agreed immediately.

So we developed Hupskadee. Hupskadee is a kind of doodle, but for babysitters. We imagined tons of extra features, but since we had 3 weeks, we kept to the essentials.

The application is in dutch, since we had to make a choice for the awards … now that I think of it the visual jokes don’t translate that well. In french it still works, since you can call your child mon petit chou. In English, however, I’ve never heard anyone call their offspring sprout or cabbage.

The team was composed of one other more back-end developer (Patrick), one front-end developer/designer/movie-maker (Hendrik), and one graphist-designer (Wio). Maybe more to the point, we had two parents on the team, who could give us an insider’s perspective.

We communicated mostly via Skype, though we did one coding session together at Patrick’s place in the countryside.

Now I’m a hard worker, but I’m not a workaholic by anyone’s definition. Coming home to code some more, 7 days a week, is not my default setting. But for such a short duration it was bearable (my backside and eyesight would disagree). The great team made it nearly pleasant.

Yesterday we handed in a working application. And I’m glad to go back to a more measured pace, to see some friends and to get some fresh air. Hope we can do it again sometime