macOS Have you ever sold an app you have built?

[hircus]

Well, I'm a week away from launching a private beta of a FileMaker-driven database solution I've spent the last 18 months building (it has a full user interface - which is why it took so long).

Hopefully followed by limited public beta in August and full release in January.

Good luck with that! I've not used FileMaker before -- my impression is that it's the Mac equivalent of Access. Is it substantially different from an SQL-speaking RDBMS? If not, you can scale up by allowing the back-end be a PostgreSQL or MySQL database

 

[jsalzer]

I will feed him and love him and call him George.

Good luck with that! I've not used FileMaker before -- my impression is that it's the Mac equivalent of Access. Is it substantially different from an SQL-speaking RDBMS? If not, you can scale up by allowing the back-end be a PostgreSQL or MySQL database

Hehe. I'm not actually that bright. I can push FileMaker to its limits, but that's the only sandbox I know how to play in.

Hopefully when this becomes more than my evening/weekend job, I'll be able to pick up some more knowledge (or hire someone who already has it.)

Thanks for the encouragement!

 

[Cult Follower]

I really don't think I could take the pressure, and I don't have enough time for all the work that needs to be put in.

 

[MacDonaldsd]

According to sloccount just over 32,000 lines.

It also says it would cost over a million dollars to develop and take over seven man years. Thankfully neither is true!

Nice and small then

From the small scale stuff ive written (500 lines max), I know the lines of code soon mount up.

 

[Stampyhead]

The University most likely owns the copyright to your application then. Have you checked with them?

Why would the university own the copyright to his application? He still created it. When I studied music composition in college I retained all copyrights on my music. Why would this be any different?

I sold Pod2Go (later renamed Life2Go) from fall 2004 to the end of 2006.

Wow, you created Pod2Go? Sweet, I loved that app. I bought it back in '05 I think, and used it quite extensively. Good job, it was very well done.

 

[Les Kern]

No, but will in about a month. It's a collaborative effort... me in the midwest and my partner in MD. We have a S-Corporation set up, all the groundwork is done for releasing it, which will happen in a month or so.
Been looking at the suppport issues... and that scares me the most. Both of us are IT guys with good jobs already with no chance of leaving them... will we be able to actually offer support ourselves, or do we have to train our wives? "Hey honey, there's 214 e-mails downstairs waiting for you." That should go over well.

 

[Les Kern]

My experience as a buyer tells me that it's worth your while if your application is a bit sexy - if I think about the shareware products I've paid for, it's been those that offer some amazingly cool or well-packaged functionality that wasn't previously possible - Salling Clicker (remote), Delicious Library (barcode scanning of your library), Visual Hub (the swiss army knife of media conversion).

I'd say that your typical Mac user is more likely to pony-up for those kinds of functions, as we've all been schooled in the wow-factor as part of our Apple experience.

OR find a vertical marketing app that has no valid Mac equivalent, ponder over the functionality, find some cool additions, change the sw presence... Not steal... just find a niche.

 

[Trogloxene]

Software development is a hard business. I've been doing it now for 16 years and there are lots of ups and downs. Realize that the product production part is only about 1/4 of the work you need to do to be successful.

-T