Releasing a 1.0 product is an interesting, exciting, and exhausting experience for a software developer. I can’t remember a time where I worked as many hours in such a small time span and was not only willing to do it, but couldn’t wait to jump out of bed every morning to get started. [...]

Manton Reece has shared with us his sales data for the first 75 days of selling Wii Transfer. His graph clearly shows spikes (and dips) related to specific marketing and version release events.
An interesting side note is that his beautiful graph was created with Keynote.

Daniel Jalkut announced on his blog this morning that Red Sweater Software has acquired Mars Edit from NewsGator.

Official Press Release
Q&A with Brent Simmons and Daniel Jalkut

I’m very much looking forward to where Daniel will take the already terrific blog authoring tool, MarsEdit.

Lee Falin has started a series on taking his product, Screen Mimic, to version 2.0.
In this first part he describes how he determined his pricing scheme for new purchases and upgrades. He also shares a bit about his struggles with adding audio to his product.
Good Stuff.

Sorry for the lack of updates, I’ve been busy, busy, busy. I promise this isn’t one of those “this is why I haven’t posted” posts. I hate those.
Back on August 15 I promised an article showing the traffic and download numbers resulting from submitting Bullfrog to various shareware download sites.
This sounded much easier [...]