The Chronicles of a Very Small Software Outfit is a blog by a mISV, sharing numbers (downloads, AdWords history etc) while staying anonymous.

LibraryThing the useful book cataloguing service by Tim Spalding (see previous post), just got a nice deal with Abebooks. Congratulations to Tim (and the new team)!

Barenaked App is a blog describing the building of Carson Systems second web application, named Amigo.

It’s extremely interesting as it details most everything: how they designed the application, budget information, hiring freelancers etc. The blog is live since February, but I only found it today (through WorkHappy.net).

Correction: The blog went live today… it just has posts going back to February.

DBxtra is a general reporting software, able to connect to just about any database. DBxtra for FogBugz is a customized version of DBxtra that only connects to FogBugz databases and comes with many preloaded reports (which you can edit).

Now, that’s probably a smart move although I wonder if the market for customized FogBugz reports is large enough to support a 2nd solution (Case Detective being the other one).

I guess if things go good with DBxtra for FogBugz we will soon see some new “DBxtra for xyz” variants.

One of the things I’m doing is rebuilding the Rapid Signal and Magna CRM site. I’ll hopefully have the new templates by mid-May, so I hope to have it online by the end of May.

This takes more time than I thought… It was the same with the screencast (on hold for now) and the press release I wrote (published in just one place for the time being). The only thing that feels easy and natural is programming ;-)

Anyway, it takes a lot of work to design the navigation, edit the texts and decide how to implement things like multi-language support (it’s strange how Magna CRM supports 2 languages but the web site only 1 language). I hope this constant feeling that something is wrong goes away after the new site goes live!