http://www.microisv.com a community for independent software developers Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:45:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Would you have turned down an offer of $1.5 million and a car of your choice? Article here http://www.microisv.com/archives/2007/09/04/17-yo-female-hs-dropout-1mm-revenue/ About the only thing worse than finding out your app has been cracked is when you have one of those "I should have thought of that" moments. Last week when poking around the Sites for Sale forums on Sitepoint I came across another website/application for sale where the software ... http://www.microisv.com/archives/2007/08/28/7-ways-not-to-end-up-saying-i-should-have-thought-of-that/ Author of The 4-Hour Workweek, Tim Ferriss, has posted an interview he did with Matt Mullenweg, the creator of Wordpress. I won't rehash the entire interview here but there are several good points that you can take from Matt's experiences in creating one of the most popular software apps ... http://www.microisv.com/archives/2007/08/21/tim-ferriss-interviews-wordpress-creator-matt-mullenweg/ In my year and a half hiatus from posting here, I continued to lurk and follow the goings-on in the microISV community. One thing I noticed is that not much changed. The same topics continue to be asked in a slightly different way, people come and people go....some ... http://www.microisv.com/archives/2007/08/16/one-simple-thing/ One of the first questions everyone asks about when starting a microISV is "How much can I make?". While most people are understandably secretive about how much money they are making, there is a place to go to get a good answer to this question. While primarily used for people ... http://www.microisv.com/archives/2007/08/14/the-microisv-voyeur/ When checking my referrer logs this morning I found that a portion of my interview for Bob Walsh’s book was quoted when someone asked if a working app can be completed in 7 days. The first reply from Bob says: It all depends on the application, but unless you live in ... http://www.microisv.com/archives/2006/03/06/conception-to-sales-in-7-days-can-it-be-done/ Axosoft is allowing customers to purchase a Small Team Edition 5 user license of their OnTime 2006 bug tracking and project management software for a $5 donation to the American Red Cross.  The regular price is $495. I would be interested to see the results in the future on how ... http://www.microisv.com/archives/2006/02/22/how-about-this-for-software-marketing/ The Coloradoan has an article that talks about the booming micro-business industry in Northern Colorado.  Fort Collins has 287 businesses with 5 employees or less on file with the Chamber of Commerce. http://www.microisv.com/archives/2006/02/13/micro-businesses-boom/ CNET has an article looking at the new Web 2.0 startups that are not doing startups the traditional way.  The article includes the obligatory VC quote on how these businesses are good for the founder but don’t have the “fundamental ingredients for creating lasting, meaningful businesses”. http://www.microisv.com/archives/2006/02/06/small-is-beautiful-says-cnet/ Many developers are still creating apps in VB6 because many of the world’s computers still don’t have the .Net framework installed and they don’t want to have to include the framework in their install. Because the .Net framework will be part of the Vista operating system, Microsoft is looking to ... http://www.microisv.com/archives/2006/01/27/upgrading-vb6-apps-to-net/