Hello Nick
Your video said to me, here is a man who is doing what I want to be doing: playing guitar, developing his own software, and having fun with his life.
I've spent the past year developing a Ruby on Rails application for two hours each morning before going off to my day job. Now I must move on and sell it. It's rather specialized, it manages returned merchandise through the repair and return to customer phases, so it probably wouldn't fit into the shareware model.
Seems funny, asking a stranger for advice, but your vid inspired me. Do you have any advice on how to go about selling software?
Glad you like the video, Dave - but that's not me in it, that's a co-worker of mine named Leland Rucker :) I've written a number of blog posts about software, most of which you can see by visiting:
:) It is certainly catchy. I think i am down with my feeds? Although i have never danced to (or with) them before. Thanks for sharing the video.
Posted by: Sean Brady | Friday, April 20, 2007 at 03:02 PM
I'm glad your business model involves selling newsreaders and not music. :)
Posted by: Rex Hammock | Friday, April 20, 2007 at 03:42 PM
Cool video, thanks for sharing it.
Posted by: Jennifer | Friday, April 20, 2007 at 06:36 PM
Cover of Australian Bee Lee's 'Catch My Disease', great song.
Posted by: David M. Kean | Friday, April 20, 2007 at 10:26 PM
Hello Nick
Your video said to me, here is a man who is doing what I want to be doing: playing guitar, developing his own software, and having fun with his life.
I've spent the past year developing a Ruby on Rails application for two hours each morning before going off to my day job. Now I must move on and sell it. It's rather specialized, it manages returned merchandise through the repair and return to customer phases, so it probably wouldn't fit into the shareware model.
Seems funny, asking a stranger for advice, but your vid inspired me. Do you have any advice on how to go about selling software?
Dave
(dfdumaresq at gmail dot com)
Posted by: Dave Dumaresq | Sunday, April 22, 2007 at 05:02 PM
Glad you like the video, Dave - but that's not me in it, that's a co-worker of mine named Leland Rucker :) I've written a number of blog posts about software, most of which you can see by visiting:
http://nick.typepad.com/blog/programming/
I haven't written much about the sales side of being a MicroISV, but these sites may offer some guidance:
http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz
http://www.asp-shareware.org/
http://www.microisv.com/
Posted by: Nick Bradbury | Monday, April 23, 2007 at 06:13 AM