Short story

I’ve co-founded a new company, rocket, with the designer I worked with on Concentrate. Over the next month or so all roobasoft products will be transitioned over to rocket and will be sold through rocket’s online store. This is mostly a name change. I’ll still be the man doing the development and support, but [...]

I’m now a bit over half way done with my 6 month roobasoft v2.0 experiment. The goal was to be able to support my family 100% off my own apps by the end of the 6 months. Although I don’t think my apps will meet that goal, I do think it’s going to be a [...]

I’m a couple weeks late to writing about how the 2nd month of my 6 month experiment went, but here it is:

So what happened in June plus 2 weeks of July? Development. I started focusing on my new OS X app, Concentrate. Late May and early June were fairly slow. I spent a lot of [...]

May was month #1, so what has happened?

rooSwitch 1.5 shipped with some new features as well as new screencasts and a new website. I moved to a shared private office in downtown Boise. I started work on a new desktop app.

Things learned:

Multi-tasking is evil. There’s plenty of people talking about the evils of distractions and multi-tasking. It [...]

I’m 20 days into roobasoft 2.0 and am already adjusting things as needed. The first major adjustment is switching from the co-working space I was using to a shared private office at a different location.

There was one major show stopper for the shared space: I wasn’t able to keep an external monitor, power supply, external [...]