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This is my 3rd (or is it 4th?) year of developing and selling Label LIVE, an electron app for designing and printing labels. Originally it only worked with USB thermal printers, but over the last few years it's grown into a multi-function image-rendering pipeline that integrates data import (via spreadsheet, CSV or API) with barcodes, text, image output. My app revenue eclipsed my iOS/NodeJS consulting in 2021 and I…
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Unsure where to ask. Worried about high costs. Suggestions welcome :)
Setup a Google Adwords account - once you get the basics its super easy. Very cheap to start out and they used to have a special where you got some free adword money to play with on starting a new account. Generally I would say try to minimize the amount your spending per keyword - broader search terms or the broader options on those search terms always cost more. Might help a ton if you renamed your software to some…
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I don't have a Mac do I'm not your target customer. However I really like your approach having a pay-once personal edition and a subscription team/business edition. It's something different from the subscription-everywhere trend.
I'll report back in a year or three if it does in fact work in real life hehe
Plenty of people do this. Go onto any software listing site (eg. Softpedia or AlternativeTo), pick a not-a-brandname commercial product and chances are that it will be a single-person project. From things that are really well-polished and look like a team effort to pimped-up crappy weekend projects. Lots and lots are made and run by a single individual. Whether they sell well is an altogether different question, but…
What is the state of the art in shareware for drop in payment / piracy protection?
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what Microsoft fat client technology are you using? the current problem for me with Microsoft fat client is there are too much options and no clear one that Microsoft will support long term.
Yea, I develop a hobby project targeting desktop Mac (Objective C GUI, C++ business logic) and I’m not sure what Windows technology I should use should I ever decide to port to Windows. There are so many and they are all in various stages of unsupported. C#? C++? .NET? Win32? MFC? WPF? XAML? WinForms? UWP? Maybe just give up on trying to read the future and use Qt. Fucking madness!
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I got up early every day and got in an hour or two before my proper full-time backend Python programming job begun. That and working on The Cat Machine on Saturdays got it finished within a year, and then after it came out I could go full-time. It's hard to just make the switch from 'real' (normal?) job to small business game programming without already having a game that's done okay released, so that's what worked f…
How have you found the switch technically? What frameworks are you using?
But I'm mostly using C# and Unity these days. There's too much useful stuff build into Unity to ignore it, and C# is very pleasant so I didn't find it particularly hard to make the jump - there's just a very definite 'Way' Unity wants you to do everything and so most of the time it's just a case of working out what that Way is.
I have a side-project ( https://batterybarpro.com ) that's a native Windows application. It brings in $400-1000 a month.
> removed the feature the allowed for toolbars
Should be that, I presume.
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Any plans for Kafka support? I was frankly a bit shocked when Conduktor raised investment: https://venturebeat.com/2021/11/22/conduktor-which-brings-a-... If anything, it's a testament to what an absolute pain it is to develop on existing message queue/event streaming platforms, so it's clearly a valid niche.
I would love to support Kafka, and even made a simple prototype. However, hit a brickwall when discovered that .Net client (by Confluent, other clients seem to be deprecated) does not have all the features the Java one has. For instance there's no way to get current consumer offsets and I think's something that should be available in a management app.
I'm slightly surprised that the .NET client isn't fully featured, but I've never tried to use Kafka from a .NET language before.
I have worked professionally for a company that made desktop apps for film production (VFX), and also internally for studios in their R&D departments and those were also almost entirely desktop based. Outside of professional work, I’ve jumped right back in to Ham radio over the Corona times, there are lots of desktop applications in use there (DSP mainly) but usability and support for hardware (both devices, and plat…
It is interesting that there are many ham apps that are single person developed and closed source, but free to download. It's weird how open source is not ubiquitous in that hobby. This leaves lots off ageing, quirky software out there.
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Setup a Google Adwords account - once you get the basics its super easy. Very cheap to start out and they used to have a special where you got some free adword money to play with on starting a new account. Generally I would say try to minimize the amount your spending per keyword - broader search terms or the broader options on those search terms always cost more. Might help a ton if you renamed your software to some…
On a product that costs $5? Forget it. No-way you will get a return. (Background: making a living selling software online for 16 years, advertised continuously on Adwords for nearly all of that).
For something like this I would probably start at like 30$ a month and keep optimizing - worst case you lose only a few hundred over the course of a year.