So… is BackupBrain still alive?
I’m sure there’s noone left following this blog, since I haven’t regularly posted here since 2008, but I am still alive and so is the business. In fact, I have been running full-time since the beginning of 2010. That’s right… I “escaped cubicle nation!” That’s the good news; the bad news is that development of [...]
A stimulating offer for Micro-ISVs…
This might be a useful offer for other Micro-ISVs out there; Atlassian Software, makers of the Confluence enterprise wiki and the JIRA issue tracking systems are offering 5-user licenses of Confluence or Jira for five dollars!! That’s right. $5. Not a bad deal if you were looking at getting into wikis or issue tracking. Even [...]
Microsoft BizSpark…
Looks like other Micro ISV’s are discovering the amazing resource that is Microsoft BizSpark. I signed up for this myself yesterday. As Scott over at The Recursive ISV said, “…it’s utterly brilliant.” Similarly to Scott, I too was wanting to develop the desktop portions of my ThoughtFiler project in Delphi 2009 but the price of [...]
The benefits of Facebook…
Sometimes Facebook is a just a time sink and can waste a lot of time and others it can reconnect you with old friends who also happen to be heading down the Micro-ISV path. Last week, through FB, I reconnected with an old school Friend, Paul, who is developing some of his ideas at HomepageHome. [...]
Another bootstrapper goes full-time!
Congratulations to Paul over at LogicalVue Software on making the jump to full-time Micro-ISV. It’s great to see someone being able to pursue their dreams. All the best to Paul & his family!
Finally developing!
Finally, after much initial excitement, thinking and planning, things are really moving again this time. Development has actually started on things… that’s it; it’s decided – next year I quit. 2007 was the year of making a start. 2008 will be the year of making it real! To actually be developing now feels good. Better [...]
Lotsa eggs, lotsa baskets!
Kinda sounds like a reasonable philosophy for Micro-ISVs, eh? At least as a starting point for one. Especially after today’s major Skype outage, previously mentioned over here. I’m thinking that today would be a good day for uISVs to use this outage to contemplate where we are too dependent on someone else, and where we [...]
And I’m off again…
What’s the record for the most stops and starts a Micro ISV can have and still be considered a business? On the one hand, a new relationship has meant I haven’t gotten as far with the business as I could have, which has meant several months of little to know “business-thinking”. The unexpected benefit of [...]
The need to refocus
I’ve been thinking a lot about the my in-progress business recently and I’ve come to one conclusion: I’m too unfocussed. In order to try and cover myself when I quit the day-job, and guarantee a certain level of revenue, I came up with a number of alternative services I could offer to local businesses. I [...]
Interesting Virtualisation links…
I was pleased to come across a couple of posts on virtualisation recently. XEN and the art of Virtualization Free VMware Server in action Sometime in the next month I am planning on building a server to be a host for VMs, so these came at just the right time for me. I was planning [...]