Blog is up, welcome

code·aplus finally has blog. It took me longer than I expected to push it up, but start­ing a micro-ISV is far from easy. :)

This has been an inter­est­ing week, to say the least, with each day of the week my sleep time was around 4am. Main rea­son was that Run Mate went on sale on the App Store last Sun­day, while I have not yet fin­ished the web site. Thus 24 full hours of work­ing later I had a pass­able site live. if you have vis­ited the site in the last sev­eral days, you could see the design com­ing along, day by day, to its cur­rent form.

At the same time, I needed to get the word out. Con­tact­ing blogs, review sites — that took a lot of time, just doing the research. Opened an account with prmac.com which does press release dis­tri­b­u­tion — great ser­vice, very quick. Writ­ing a good press release is seri­ously hard job — it took an entire day of writ­ing, re-writing, edit­ing and re-editing to get to the point of being acceptable.

At the same time, the sales took off. This was really sur­pris­ing as I did not expect any, until I get the word out. But the very first day Run Mate sold few dozen copies! Big thank you to all of you who bought the app, you made those long nights more than worthwhile.

And with sales comes feed­back, with some really good fea­ture sug­ges­tions. Fea­ture request list is grow­ing steadily, along with work pro­gress­ing on the 1.1 ver­sion.
Keep the feed­back com­ing, either here in the com­ments or through the feed­back form.

I’ll write more, when 1.1 enters beta stage.