The Recursive ISV

It’s Sunday, again, the fourth and final one in June and of course of the entire 30 Day exercise we’ve been pursuing this month.

I must admit I’m feeling very mixed today.  I’m pretty much tired out presently and while it’s only 8:47 PM as I sit down to write this I don’t think I can do any more work today.

It’s the evening, here, before the final day.  The “Sunset” in a sense.

I’ve had some time to think as I worked today.  Basically I spent the day creating templates for MixAction’s users to select from a dialog.  Worthwhile as it gave me a chance to work over and over again with creating projects.  So it was certainly time well spent and of course the bonus is the application has templates for them to use as the basis of projects now.

I still have a bunch of stuff to do.  Still no installer done, web site not ready (though the template is I’ve not done any of the text etc) and I’m not satisfied with the reality that it’s not been tested enough.

I have one competitor in the same approximate “market” on Windows.  He went to Version 2.0 during the last few weeks.  His app’ doesn’t run on *any* of my systems.  I actually felt bad for him and a part of me wanted to let him know, but then I doubt he’d really want to hear from me.

But it got me to thinking.  There is no bloody way I’m going to make this mistake!

So….  An “executive decision” had to be made.  I figured I’d surpassed my own expectations of what could be achieved in 30 Days already.  This product is a foundation, a corner stone, for other products.  It needs to be solid.  So I’ve decided to delay releasing on July 1st and instead enter into a proper, structured Beta test period while I smooth over some wrinkles I’m only to aware of, though nobody else would know are there. 

This actually means no slacking of pace.  Instead I’m taking Tuesday off as a rest day only.  I have an entire website to “fill in” the dots for and as I said above, some code and functionality I want to further polish before release.

At this time I’m hesitant to specify an exact release date.  No later than the end of July, but more likely mid July 2008. 

As they say it’s not over until the kilograms impaired lady sings, so for those interested I’m going to keep on blogging right along side Patrick and probably some of the others that I suspect will keep coding.

I’m going sit down now and reorganize my schedule, alter some plans and I must admit by and large feel very pleased about the entire 30 Days process and what’s been achieved.

I’ve loved every minute of it and am looking forward to the next few weeks “extension” that I’m granting myself. 

Scott Kane

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