A July 4th Update

Ahh, Independence Day....the best day of the year to kick back and take a little stock of where we've been over the last 6 months and where we're going over the next 6. So here's a couple of completely random thoughts about this year so far:

1. We released our first product, SlingShot, and lots of you have downloaded it -- and more people than we thought have bought it (thanks for that, btw :).

2. We've gotten to know a couple of other cool Mac indie devs, all of whom work on cool stuff and are really supportive of each other. It turns out the Mac community has more than just a great set of end customers -- it has a great set of developers too.

3. We did a really cool update to SlingShot a couple weeks ago that added support for keeping music synchronized between two computers...this was actually the original idea for SlingShot, but it turned out that the iTunes integration was such a bear that we decided to do something smaller for the first release. Fortunately, it seems like people really like this kind of per-app syncing, so we're going to do some more of it (more on that below).

4. Wow, support mail is tough to get through. Every time I read a mail from a customer I feel a little like we've failed them in some small way. The flip side of course is that when you can solve the problem you feel (just a little bit) like a hero :)