Meaning of kitchen table software | Babel Free

Definitions

Especially in the early years of personal computers, a set of computer programs developed by an entrepreneurial advanced amateur or self-employed professional computer programmer in his or her own home; software developed by a small business using the services of such programmers.

dated, idiomatic, uncountable

Examples

“So much for kitchen-table software being small potatoes.”

“However, the need to evaluate software before buying is no less important than in the days of the kitchen-table software developer.”

“More and more vendors, from IBM to "kitchen table" software authors, seem to be heading in this direction.”

CEFR level