Ron Mertens' blog » Delphi http://www.ronmertens.com/blog Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:45:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 That’s it, I’m no longer offering Windows software http://www.ronmertens.com/blog/2011/09/19/thats-it-im-no-longer-offering-windows-software/ http://www.ronmertens.com/blog/2011/09/19/thats-it-im-no-longer-offering-windows-software/#comments Mon, 19 Sep 2011 08:31:58 +0000 Ron Mertens http://www.ronmertens.com/blog/?p=416 Today I finally done it – I’m no longer offering Windows software. This was not an easy thing to do. I remember my first windows software from back in 1998 (it was called Bullsy, and I developed it together with my friend Alon Keinan when we were in the second year in University). It was a freeware mastermind game. I “established” Metalgrass and started offering Square-Off back in 2000 just before leaving to my after-the-army trip to NZ and Samoa.

Square-Off was an AdWare at first (I was working at Cydoor at the time, after all) but later I converted it to shareware. It was then followed by Karteset, SAM and finally AdSenseLog. I was selling those titles for over 8 years or so – but never managed to make it successful. In fact, in just two months I sold more Nonogram Kindle titles than all four Windows titles in all those years (although of course revenue from AdSenseLog was still a lot more as the price was $69.99 and the Kindle Nonogram costs just $2.99).

So now I’m focusing mostly on my technology blogs (mainly OLED-Info) and Kindle software. Maybe one day I’ll go back to desktop software, who knows?

]]> http://www.ronmertens.com/blog/2011/09/19/thats-it-im-no-longer-offering-windows-software/feed/ 1 AdSenseLog updates http://www.ronmertens.com/blog/2006/11/05/adsenselog-updates/ http://www.ronmertens.com/blog/2006/11/05/adsenselog-updates/#comments Sun, 05 Nov 2006 17:59:42 +0000 Ron Mertens http://www.ronmertens.com/blog/2006/11/05/adsenselog-updates/ I finished development of AdSenseLog v4.5.0…
I have added a new feature… I don’t want to discuss it yet (hush hush), but it’s already in beta testing with a few clients. I hope they’ll give me good feedback.

Another thing I have added is a short survey when people uninstall the software. I find that I have many downloads, and a lot of people do not purchase. Some of them use the free version (if they earn less than 50$), some probably use a crack (yeah…) but some simply decide not to buy. Hopefully I’ll get a few answers, and it might help me make this a better product. I’ve added the survey to the un-installer of version 4.0.1.

Now I have another decision to make – what to do next? I have decided to start a new software project… Stay tuned!

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