http://thewebtiger.com/blog/the-week-of-the-mac-independent-developer/ Writing about website design, development, and other geeky stuff Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:00:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://thewebtiger.com/blog/the-week-of-the-mac-independent-developer/#comment-85 Megabytes » Blog Archive » Taste of MacWorld Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:08:02 +0000 http://gracelacy.com/wp/?p=144#comment-85 [...] 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. [...] [...] 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. [...]

]]> http://thewebtiger.com/blog/the-week-of-the-mac-independent-developer/#comment-78 Megabytes » Blog Archive » MacHeist - ScamHeist? Mon, 25 Dec 2006 15:50:47 +0000 http://gracelacy.com/wp/?p=144#comment-78 [...] 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. [...] [...] 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. [...]

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