"Despite my inclinations, however, my accountant reminds me I'm not getting any younger, and that I need to remain mindful of little things down the road like retirement."
Retirement? Oh yeah, seems to me I've heard of that. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig I *am* retired -- I was tired yesterday and I'm tired again today. On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> wrote: > Skip wrote: > > >> Richard wrote: > >> > >> Here's that thrown-together result: > >> <http://fourthworld.net/lc/4w-projprofiler.png> > > > > I think there might be several people interested in your stack, > > if you are willing to share :) > > Very - whenever I post a screen shot of a tool I'm working on the > intention is to make that tool available once it's been sufficiently > debugged and "productized". > > As Steven McConnell reminds us in his book "Code Complete", the difference > in level of effort between a personal tool and a product can be an order of > magnitude, because "with a tool it need only be possible to use it > correctly, but with a product it should be impossible to use it > incorrectly". > > My inclination is to give tools and code away at no cost, and sometimes > even under GPL or other open source licenses when they're a good fit for > the project's goals, so folks can use them and share them easily. > > Despite my inclinations, however, my accountant reminds me I'm not getting > any younger, and that I need to remain mindful of little things down the > road like retirement. > > Like most of us, I toss together ad hoc solutions to help with whatever I > need to do in my professional work, and now and then things are either so > trivial that they don't require much polishing to be worth sharing (e.g. > gZipper and DeskView), or are so necessary to my professional work that > they're already at least polished enough for others to use (e.g. devolution > and Flight Recorder). > > But other things require a bit of work to turn them from something useful > only to me into something that can benefit others as well. > > Looking at the GBs of PBIs (Partly-Baked Ideas) on my hard drives I > realize some of those would be useful to share - if I can find a way to > make the time for that away from client work. > > I've considered various forms of crowd-funding, but for small things like > dev tools it's often more work to set up a campaign and manage it within > Kickstarter or even IndieGoGo than to just finish the tool itself. > > So while I'm focused right now on meeting some hefty client deadlines, I > wanted to at least confirm that yes, the code base analysis tool and others > will become available at first opportunity (devolution 4.0 is very close to > testable release), and to let you know I'm considering a donation-based > system to gauge the community's interest in these sorts of things. > > I'm open to other ideas, but at the moment donations seem a good balance > of flexibility for both myself and anyone interested in the tools. > > There will likely be multiple donation levels to choose from, so if you > want email support that would be available at a certain minimum, and other > incentives for higher amounts, yet still allow a gratis option for those > who may not yet have income streams the tools contribute to. > > There are risks with any model, and I don't expect any donations from dev > tools to do as much for my retirement as consumer apps do. But every > little bit helps so that's my intention at the moment, unless someone here > has a better idea for both making more money to keep such efforts viable > while also making the tools very easily available for anyone who can > benefit from them. > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > ____________________________________________________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
