Anyone have success in the Blackberry market?
We've all heard of successes by small-time software developers on the iPhone App store. Has anyone actually had success selling applications in the Blackberry ...
promoting
How do I get people interested in my open source projects?
I've been working on two personal projects that I now posted on Launchpad with the idea to get some input from the broader community. How do I get people to actually run or least look at the code? Tips on what would make it easier for people to try out an opensource web app is also welcome. ...
Where can I promote Rails applications?
I am currently writing a FOSS Rails app and would like to get some ideas about where to promote the application. I am searching for something like opensourcerails.com or wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/OpenSourceProjects ...
What is a good way to drum up interest in my open source project?
I maintain a coding library for .NET/Mono called SixPack. It's a general purpose class library based on good architectural principles, and is currently being used in a number of websites. We think that code quality is pretty good, and we strive to improve every day. Although the code, is pretty well tested on real-world projects, we kee...
Writing efficient open source product summary and promoting project
I've been working on an open source project on sourceforge a few months ago. One thing I noticed is that a well written summary could make a huge difference for the product. I literally saw traffic going to almost nothing when I made a poor change to project summary. One more thing I noticed is that not only summary has to be appealing,...
How to obtain betatesters?
A friend of mine is building a web application and is expecting to create a business around it (who doesn't). Of course he's done all the internal testing and friends&family, but few are interested or spend enough time with the system. The thing is he would like to find more people to use/test the application, but he doesn't know how. ...
SVN promoting changes to test and production
OK, so I am implementing an SVN repository to track development on a Dot Net project. I have defined the repository directory in accordance with the following structure: \project \trunk \branches \systest \production \tags \production_yyyymmdd Main development is committed to the trunk of the proje...