By Joshua Volz Volz Software [Ed. Note: From time to time I'm inviting various microISVs to come talk about the development of their products here at 47hats.com. Want to contribute a MicroISV Profile? Email me.] Marketing. It’s the other half of having a software company. It’s the hard part for most of us who start [...]
Continue reading...
Yesterday I got the word on Fog Creek’s new FogBugz 6.0 from the man himself, Joel Spolsky, from a microISV point of view. I wanted to see for myself whether the new 6.0 had gained anything that would make it easier to use as my one person tech support app; what I got was a [...]
Continue reading...KeyXL Keyboard Shortcuts When the going gets tough, the tough turn to keyboard shortcuts, at least they do if they’re programmers. Nice site with lots of good shortcuts. (tags: shortcuts keyboard) Web Worker 101: Estimating Basics « Web Worker Daily A good primer on estimating software tasks – be they for The Man or for [...]
Continue reading...Tim Haughton over at The Agile Micro ISV Blog nailed it today: “Teams move boulders. The micro ISV fills his pockets with pebbles and runs back and forth.” Too often microISVs fall into the trap of approaching work (programming, marketing, planning) as if they were still safely nestled in their old corporate jobs – big [...]
Continue reading...
By Jonas Martinsson FeedJournal – The Newspaper You Always Wanted http://www.feedjournal.com [Ed. Note: From time to time I'm inviting various microISVs to come talk about the development of their products here at 47hats.com. Want to contribute a MicroISV Profile? Email me.] My micro-ISV project is FeedJournal. At its core, it generates a PDF newspaper from [...]
Continue reading...
On yesterday’s post about stop beating the documentation dead horse and start riding the video pony, Stuart raised a very good question: “Wait a sec, I just thought of something, if the customer won’t read the manual how do you get them to search for the correct video and view it. OK, the customer will [...]
Continue reading...
How many times have you wanted to tell a customer, Read the F*cking Manual! Me too – first learning the trade doing tech support in various corporations, then on numerous contracts where I built and documented apps for the some of the same companies, then for my own microISVs product. You can ask, implore, beg, [...]
Continue reading...
Here’s an anti-pattern all too often seen: a good programmer, sick unto death of being a corporate codemonkey, starts a microISV and immediately do the wrong thing: they build a safe product. It might be a software library or component, or a CMS system not unlike all the other CMS systems out there, only better. [...]
Continue reading...SEO & Search Engine Marketing Mindmap Here’s a mindmap view of SEO – one of the 47 hats you have to wear. So many tasks, so little time! (tags: microISV, SEO) Why Microsoft must abandon Vista to save itself | Tech news blog – CNET News.com The natives are getting restless…Quick, give them a Zune [...]
Continue reading...
Readers of this blog may have noticed I’ve not posted for 2+ weeks. That’s just no way to run a blog or treat your readers, I know. But since I announced back around the first of July that I was starting a consulting practice to help microISVs succeed, things have gotten busy: Providing custom consulting [...]
Continue reading...