Friday, February 18, 2005

The first week

The first week of whatsrunning.net has been very interesting. Seeing hordes of people download your software is really encouraging. Watching the patterns of traffic on the webserver is also interesting.
Upload strategy
My strategy for uploading has been to start with Download.com. Being a "new" application on Download.com guarantees hits and downloads. From download.com, lots of other download sites (my current count after a week is roughly 15) fetch information and put it on their own sites. Mostly these sites are in a local language. Many hits on day 3 was from a Bulgarian site and the last two days the Italians have been storming in.

Of course, having lots of people downloading your software doesnt mean
a) That they are using it
or
b) That they think it's good.

Finding out what the users think about WR is next on my agenda...

Monday, February 14, 2005

What's Running 2.0 finally out...

Finally!

What's Running 2.0 is out. Months later than I thought, less features (and other features) than I thought at the beginning but overall I'm really satisfied.

Getting it done... is the hard part, deciding what needs to be fixed and what does not. And what good is a finished app if you dont have a website? So enter http://www.whatsrunning.net/, a site totally dedicated to What's Running.

I'll tell you more about plans and so on later on.