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Archive for the 'Micro ISV' Category

The Road to 2.0 – Part 1: Upgrades and Pricing

Thursday, February 1st, 2007

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.

Bullfrog Download Statistics

Sunday, October 8th, 2006

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 [...]

Need a Company Name?

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

Daniel Jalkut has the ultimate “Adjective Noun” company name generator. My favorites were: Marginal Technology Ugly Goblin Green Soup, Inc. Great entertainment, and useful too.

iPod Games

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006

iPod Games: now this is an interesting business opportunity. The Mac games market may be small, but the iPod market is huge. I wonder how open Apple will be to selling independent iPod games through iTunes. So, Apple where is that iPod Games SDK? Can I use Objective-C or do I need to use Java? [...]

DMG Image Design

Friday, September 8th, 2006

Roustem Karimov examines the approach of several companies to DMG Image Design. This is a great comparison of several top software products’ digital distribution package for the Mac. There are several reasons why this is so important for your product: First impressions count; especially for shareware products. Minimizing customer support issues. Directions on how to [...]