BKeeney Briefs

This one is timely as I was asked about a bundle opportunity the other day:

Interesting post at http://homepage.mac.com/simx/technonova/reports/from_the_mouths_of_developers.html where Simone Mangenelli asked a bunch of developers that participated in the MacHeist bundles there thoughts.

Summary Ideas:

• If you look at it as ‘marketing’ it’s a huge win because you get your name and product in front of people who wouldn’t normally have found you.
• Tech support issues spike during the promotion and then return to normal shortly thereafter.
• Getting some money is better than none.
• There is no saturation of the market.  Not THAT many people purchase the bundle.

I highly recommend the article.  It gives some food for thought from a developer and a consumer standpoint.

Have you participated in a bundle offering as a developer and/or consumer?  Do you feel that it was worth it?  What sage words of advice would you give?

Perhaps I’m cursed when using Valentina.  I’m using version 4.2 of Valentina Studio Pro for Mac OS X.  I’m trying to test out their new Reporting tool because it’s part of my presentation at the Colorado REALbasic Summit.  Whenever I attempt to drag a picture object or chart object onto my report I get a hard crash.

It’s very hard to evaluate and report on how well it works if I can’t even use it for more than 2 minutes (and no, I’m not running into the 10 minute demo limit).  It really makes me wonder what their QA process is or if we’re the QA  guinea pigs process.