VMware Server…
This is last week’s news I know, but I thought it was worth comment. VMware Server now being free is a huge gift to the Micro-ISV community, methinks. I’ve downloaded it and given it a quick test, and it looks great so far. I have recently been evaluating both VMware Workstation and Parallels Workstation with [...]
Scratching an itch
I’ve been doing a bit of reading tonight and came across this article from Evan William’s, of Blogger fame, on “Ten Rules for Web Startups“… “No. 6. Be Self Centered – Great products almost always come from someone scratching their own itch. Create something you want to exist in the world. Be a user of [...]
Vaporware…
From Wired: Vaporware: Better Late Than Never The lesson for all good Micro-ISVs? Never announce product release dates!
Payment methods, consumers & me…
Ian, a fellow Micro-ISV (who’s ahead of me with a released product!) has posted interesting thoughts regarding software-as-a-service. I thought I’d add a few comments… “…but it sounds like he’s interested in doing something which may be sold as a software service rather than a straight download and buy.” I could be wrong here but [...]
User Authentication & Subscriptions…part 2
There does not seem to be as much in this space as I originally expected. It seems that most Micro-ISVs are selling their software as download packages rather than using the software-as-a-service. I can understand the downsides to this model in terms of infrastructure if your service were to grow too big, but I’m still [...]
Failure to cultivate…
Ian over at Userscape, made an interesting post the other day regarding the importance of cultivating readers by responding to their comments. Oops! This is such an obviously important thing that I don’t know why I didn’t think about it before (and respond to the comment that Ian left on one of my own previous [...]
How to do what you love…
I find most of Paul Graham‘s essays are always thoughtprovoking and interesting, and this one is no exception. To do something well you have to like it. That idea is not exactly novel. We’ve got it down to four words: “Do what you love.” But it’s not enough just to tell people that. Doing what [...]
User Authentication & Subscriptions…
One of the service areas that I want to explore with this business is subscription-based web services. I’ve therefore been spending quite a bit of time looking into various user management/authentication/subscription packages that I’d be able to use. There are a heap of user management/login libraries around, but not that many that combine subscriptions and [...]
The obligatory blog…
Well, I finally have a blog up on my new business domain! A new adventure and journey is just beginning, although it will probably start off a little slowly as I still have my day job until I see how this is going to pan out (and I actually generate some income). I have plenty [...]