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The limiting factor is not people seeing a market opportunity or not but in the availability and interest of requisite software talent. To a lot of developers,
by mkramlich 16y ago
The limiting factor is not people seeing a market opportunity or not but in the availability and interest of requisite software talent. To a lot of developers, text editing is a solved problem. To really talented devs? Also, mostly solved. Enough. Perfect? Maybe not. But what's available now goes so far that there's not a lot of draw to taking a whack at making the next Better Mousetrap.
Also, the market is probably not large enough. Paid market. There are lots of free editors, and commercial editors, already available, and there's a skill learning curve required to switch editors, that I think all of this adds up to explaining the unexploited "gap" you described.
- sudont 16y agoTextmate's also got a small following in the web world, despite it being slowly cannibalized by Espresso and Coda (not to mention BBEdit regaining what little share it lost). Personally, I'm pretty happy with the 'mate' symlink for editing plists and other short files when I'm not in an editor elsewhere. Even though Textmate's bundle system means it's easily updated and quickly integrated with a client's standard snippets, it is missing out on some of the nice DOM, navigation and file management stuff of web IDEs.