Eric Sink’s latest article for microISV’s


Eric’s latest article ‘Finding a Product Idea for Your Micro-ISV‘ is now up at Microsoft’s Longhorn Developer Center. He says this regarding brainstorming for new ideas.

Just write down every idea and start thinking of another one. Once the flow starts, don’t stop it.

Because many of us are not yet full time microISV’s, our current jobs offer and excellent source of ideas. Just yesterday I spoke with someone who receives a monthly check from a company for a script he wrote to automate a very manual process. He has absolutely no training in software development but he was able to identify a need and fill it. The business owner did not care in the least about what IDE he used or how it even worked. All he needed to know was that the process worked consistently and repeatedly. In return for that, the business owner pays him a percentage of each item processed by the script. Not a bad deal.

Eric, thanks for the link and welcome to all the new readers.

Related Sites:
Eric Sink, founder of SourceGear

One Response to “Eric Sink’s latest article for microISV’s”

  1. Denise Wynn Says:

    I find One Note to be extremely useful for helping with the idea process. I have a couple tabs for my ideas and I just jot them down when I think of them. Then it’s easy to go back later and add additional notes or information or things to check out.

Eric Sink’s latest article for microISV’s


Eric’s latest article ‘Finding a Product Idea for Your Micro-ISV‘ is now up at Microsoft’s Longhorn Developer Center. He says this regarding brainstorming for new ideas.

Just write down every idea and start thinking of another one. Once the flow starts, don’t stop it.

Because many of us are not yet full time microISV’s, our current jobs offer and excellent source of ideas. Just yesterday I spoke with someone who receives a monthly check from a company for a script he wrote to automate a very manual process. He has absolutely no training in software development but he was able to identify a need and fill it. The business owner did not care in the least about what IDE he used or how it even worked. All he needed to know was that the process worked consistently and repeatedly. In return for that, the business owner pays him a percentage of each item processed by the script. Not a bad deal.

Eric, thanks for the link and welcome to all the new readers.

Related Sites:
Eric Sink, founder of SourceGear

One Response to “Eric Sink’s latest article for microISV’s”

  1. Denise Wynn Says:

    I find One Note to be extremely useful for helping with the idea process. I have a couple tabs for my ideas and I just jot them down when I think of them. Then it’s easy to go back later and add additional notes or information or things to check out.

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