Difference between revisions of "25 Steps to Build Your Own Micro ISV"

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25. [[Do It All Again]]
 
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h2. Pre-Compilation
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* What's your idea(s)?
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* How To Fail Fast
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* Plan your [[Promotional Strategy]]
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* Strategy: [[Separate "Free" From "Professional"]] product
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* [[Register That Domain]] (aka, Choose a Name)
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h2. Code
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* Write your software...
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** Even a one-person company [[needs source control]]
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** [[Shiny, Usable, Helpful]]
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** [[To Obfuscate or not]]?
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** Automate Your [[Build+Release Strategy]]
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** [[Auto Update Strategy]]
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** [[Write Your Own EULA]] (end user license agreement) -- infact write two!
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* One page website
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** [[Reliable Hosting]]
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** [[Get The Best Screenshots You Can]]
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* Release the free edition
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** [[Create a PAD file]] (portable application description)
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** [[Register at Download Sites]]
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* Advanced Website
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** [[Website Design]]
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** [[Basic Website Content]]
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** Create forums, [[Encourage Feedback]]
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* Go pro...
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** Choose a price range
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* [[Establish Payment Account]]
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* [[Allow Payment]] from your website
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* Get a [[License Management Database]]
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* [[License Activation Webservice/Website]]
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h2. Coda
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* [[Do It All Again]]
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* [[Configure Email For Your Domain]]
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* Extra Credit
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** [[Traffic Monitoring]]
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* [[Build a Proper Installer]]
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* Free up enough time/resources for [[Dealing With Support]]
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** [[Maintain a FAQ]]
  
 
[[Category:MicroISV]]
 
[[Category:MicroISV]]

Revision as of 18:24, 15 November 2009

Turning an amateur software project into a professional project is a straight forward process -- but it involves a lot of steps.

We're putting together articles on each of the steps we've identified, as a way to help other developers turning their fledgling idea into a working MicroISV.


1. Register That Domain

2. Reliable Hosting

3. Website Design

4. Basic Website Content

5. Install Traffic Monitoring on your site

6. Create forums, Encourage Feedback

7. Maintain a FAQ

8. Get The Best Screenshots You Can

9. Configure Email For Your Domain

10. Establish Payment Account

11. Allow Payment from your website

12. Create a PAD file (portable application description)

13. Register at Download Sites

14. Strategy: Separate "Free" From "Professional" product

15. Write Your Own EULA (end user license agreement) -- infact write two!

16. Auto Update Strategy

17. License Activation Webservice/Website

18. Get a License Management Database

19. Build a Proper Installer

20. Obfuscate Your Assemblies

21. Automate Your Build+Release Strategy

22. Free up enough time/resources for Dealing With Support

23. Shiny, Usable, Helpful

24. Plan and enact your Promotional Strategy

25. Do It All Again


I'd also like to reorganise this story into a more flowing piece, which will have different steps, in a more logical order. Below is a work-in-progress of that order.

h2. Pre-Compilation

h2. Code


h2. Coda