It’s the middle of the afternoon and I am about the make my 4th blog post. Although to be fair I probably won’t make many more today, if any as I will be out all this evening and so won’t get a chance until after midnight. Unless I got to DEC-10 in which case I will probably end up blogging. But what is ironic is that yesterday I thought, right, I’m not going to blog tomorrow. Yet by the time I had gone to bed I had already blogged twice!
Anyway, so yeah, getting down to the post content. I’ve been thinking recently, that perhaps the way forward at least for the foreseable future is application development with Particle Soft. In recent years, while I’ve worked on it, my main focus has always been running sites and communities and attempting to generate revenue that way.
While being in content has generated me some revenue, I have put a lot of effort in and the return given that amount of effort has not been great. Also maintaining content sites is more of a long haul, do a little every day type thing. While I have managed this with things like daily celeb news sites, with application development it is something you can just not do for weeks and then attack like crazy for a week when you are really fired up about it which suites me well.
So perhaps I would be better focusing a lot more attention on Particle Soft rather than focusing on my content sites and see where that leads. I do have a business model for it which while it hasn’t really been implemented, has been somewhat developed (I half half a customer system written on the site, it still needs a lot more work but the foundations are there). Although I wasn’t planning in implementing the business model until the scripts were more popular which I think is the next step, bringing more attention to the scripts.
I think given I already have four products out there, one almost ready to release and many others in various stages of development it is something I am going to have to give serious thought to.
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May 28th, 2006 at 11:21 pm
[...] Ok, this is just silly. This is the 5th blog post I have made today and I wanted to keep it minimal today as I didn’t want my recent post, Is my future in application development? to be pushed too far down as I was hoping that one would actually get read and I dared to dream of actually getting people’s thoughts on the subject. [...]
May 29th, 2006 at 12:53 am
Getting a business model that works is a difficult issue. While one should always play to ones strengths, one also has to consider the market forces involved in the field. In order to thrive in the development field you need a killer product, and the will and determination to stick by it. Why? Because there are thousands of other products out there all of which are freely available, and don’t forget that in this day and age all but the very n00bish of people will have a bash at their own code, or at the very least will modify something existing.
To make development play into your hands you need a product with a wide appeal, that can be easily tailored and can support a wide range of things, above and beyond its original specification should the end user so desire.
The good thing about your content model is that it works; the more content you have the more exposure you get and so the more business you attract.
Be aware of the age old argument however - quality not quantity. In the age of a bigger is better internet, there is a lot of business to be gained by having a real face, real phone number and some good old fashioned straight talking. When it comes to development, give your product a face as well as a code base and throw your weight behind it. That gives you the best chances of success and also shows your potential customers for private development that you have the ability to see thier custom project through to its conclusion.