....and some thoughts on the next 6 months

And some thoughts on the future:

1. We've got yet another product in the hopper, this one's a small utility that we think a lot of people could use. We're getting close to done with the coding, and then we'll need some testers to play with it. If you're interested, drop us a line and tell us you're up for helping out the testing (it's called Martian LifeBoat btw, in case you were curious :).

2. Yes, it's true that iTunes was just the first example of "per-app" sync we want to do with SlingShot. You can probably guess at what the next app is, and that we'd like to support as many of the iApps as we can.

3. Coming up real soon is IronCoder v2.0, being run by the honorable Judge Gus. If you've ever dreamed of being adored by hundreds of hot mac indie groupies (betcha never thought there were any :) and generally worshipped for your mad Mac OS X coding skills, this is the contest for you. Also there's like prizes and stuff. :)

4. We're 6 months into this whole indie thing, and it's truly awesome. We owe a huge thanks to all our customers who make us feel great and who help us pay the bills a little.

5. Almost forgot -- part of our business plan is to help make the world a slightly better place, and to try and pay back a little of the good fortune life has brought our way. As part of that, we donate 6% of our profits every year to charity. We've got several ideas, but if you've got a charity you admire that you'd like us to consider, please let us know.

Ok, back to watching the fireworks!

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 :)