- Product
- Dial-A-Dev 98 · App
- Pitch
- The AI coding agent on 14 CD-ROMs. Type what you want, it dials up the model and ships by morning. Just don't pick up the phone.
- Audience
- Home PC owners with a 56k modem, an app idea and a family that keeps picking up the phone
- Market
- Startup x3
- Pricing
- One-time purchase · $59.85 once
- Features
- Ships on 14 CD-ROMs: allow 9 hours to install, insert discs in order
- Plain-English prompts: type what you want, it writes the code
- Dials up the model over your 56k modem (connects at 56,000 bps)
- Overnight Ship: writes the code while you sleep and ships by morning
- Phone-Line Guard blocks Mom, your sister and the fax machine from picking up mid-build
- 500 free hours of context in every box
- Live preview window for the web site it is building
- Year 2000 ready
- Competitors
- Writing code by hand, Your nephew who knows computers, An HTML for beginners book
- Theme fit
- A modern AI coding agent sold exactly as software was in 1998: a big retail box of 14 CD-ROMs, a dial-up connection to the model, a desktop app with a Dial button, and a full TV infomercial with an announcer, 'But wait, there's more!', three easy payments of $19.95 and a 1-800 number. The promo is made to look taped on VHS.
by @engineerforai· launched Nov 12, 04:43 PM UTC