Instant Software Machine & Software Designer Pro
More and more people have ran into the software compilers Instant Software Machine and Software Designer Pro and as a result, more and more people are turning to me for advice on whether or not to purchase these softwares.
The short answer to this is: NO - don’t buy them. Not if you are wanting to make anything of substance.
Instant Software Machine - frequently spotted on eBay for as little as $9.95 - is exactly the same software as Software Designer Pro (which I’ve seen sold from anywhere between $49 and $197).
The reason these are similar is because Software Designer Pro comes with the source files to the software itself and an encouragement to change the copyrights and all before reselling it again.
As for what these softwares can create…
Their abilities are extremely limited in comparison with both Make Your Own Software (MYOS) and Instant Software Builder (ISB). While it uses the same structure of uploading a recipe file with variable tags into the software, to create your own application, every product you create will be the same in look and feel.
This is because ISM and SDP do not offer customization of the software interfaces in the way MYOS and ISB do. There are no options like header fields, footer fields, adding images to questions, dummy or info only tags et cetera.
The only useful purpose I can think of at this point, is that you could purchase the cheaper Instant Software Machine just to get a general impression of how this HTML software compiling is done. And if it’s something that suits your needs, you can continue to get yourself the real deal, which would be ISB…
You can find lots of information about ISB on this site or at:
There’s a review, a comparison of features against MYOS, a page filled with examples of applications created with ISB and more.
There’s a thread on the forum with more info about the other two software compilers:
www.letsmakesoftware.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=467
I hope this helps a bit in differentiating between the various compilers around these days. As their sales letters all pretty much state the same…
April 7th, 2008 at 1:22 am
All those instant software gens are a bunch of crap. They just center around asking the user something. You just write something out surrounded by a special ‘tag’ character– @Horse-shit@
That’s about all you get. Instant software programs are built upon the notion that someone dumb enough to buy our program will surly buy whatever crap it spits out. Don’t waste your money on some stupid wannabe programming environment so you can subconsciously delude yourself into believing you’re hip. At least tryout something you can have fun with. Try Liberty Basic for windows programming, and Run Basic for web apps. I had load of fun with LB back in high-school.
If you cannot use those (the easiest crap in the world) then you should just give up on that “Instant Billionaire software developer pipe dream”. If someone does make it, I promise it wont be software from an instant crap machine.