Joyent Slingshot

There’s a flood of “take your web browser offline” type of products hitting the market, but I think Joyent Slingshot will succeed simply because it lets the very same people that have figured out how to make compelling web applications with Rails build offline versions of those Rails apps. They don’t have to learn anything new. That’s a big deal, cause, frankly, there’s already too much stuff for web application developers to fit in their heads and asking them to learn different toolkits for the server and desktop components of their apps is asking too much.

Oh, and coincidentally, I work for Joyent these days.