The Week of the Mac Independent Developer
The folks at MacHeist have declared this week to be a celebration of independent Mac developers. Their celebration is our good fortune. They have put together a package of 10 applications that between them have received multiple Apple Design Awards, O’Reilly Innovator awards, Macworld Eddy’s, and MacMinute Showtime awards.
If you were to buy these apps separately, you would shell out $288.75. However, this week only (4 days and 22 hours left as I make this post), you can buy them all for $49.00. The 10 apps are:
- Delicious Library
- FotoMagico
- ShapeShifter
- Devonthink Personal
- Disco
- RapidWeaver
- iClip 4
- One game by Pangea
- NewsFire (unlocked when $50k charity is raised)
- TextMate (unlocked when $100k charity is raised)
What a great idea - promotes the shareware developers, creates visibility for some nifty apps, raises money for charities, AND saves money! Now how cool is that?! Get over there and get yourself a deal.
December 25th, 2006 at 7:50 am
[...] Daring Fireball makes a compelling analysis of the MacHeist sale of independent Mac developer software that I wrote about recently. While the deal was good for purchasers of the software bundle, John Gruber makes the case that the software developers, who were to be celebrated by this promotion, perhaps didn’t get such a good deal. [...]
January 11th, 2007 at 12:08 am
[...] Later, I met the developers of Disco, a disk burning app (watch for a review coming soon), Jasper Hauser and Austin Sarner. Disco was one of the apps contained in the MacHeist Bundle that I wrote about recently. I asked them about John Gruber’s assertion that the developers got ripped off by the MacHeist folks. Jasper said that they got a lot of visibility from the promotion. The bundle had the intended effect of bringing their app to a wider audience. “We definitely noticed a spike in sales after the promotion,” Austin agreed. [...]