Teaser - Polywick Story Server

Posted by Lothar Scholz
Feb 26, 2019 at 09:24 PM

@Polywick Studio,

please take an advise from a fellow small independent software developer who is in the same market niche as you.

You are not doing yourself a favour acting and writing like this. As a single developer and believe me people will find out very very fast how small and credible your company is, the most important is to build trust. And remember that this postings are here to stay and google will return them for a long time. All i’ve seen so far from you is not a single sign of competence in the field of programming but instead i see a choleric reaction to (future) user feedback and narcism on the programming side (no you are not cool if you use UTF7 and DDE for program communication. This is not the 1990ths). This is not what you want.

@Bobby Parker
I do not agree with you that the data structures and the code is trivial, not more then almost any other webbased app. There are still features that are unique to old software and uncopied even if genius because they are hard to implement and to detailed for the sales guys. For Ecco it is for example the possibility of multi values in the column row. For spreadshirts like Improv (release date 1990) it is the dropping of letter-number addressed cells and pivot tables, for AskSam (1994) it is the mixing of formated fields inside normal text, for Lotus Agenda it is the automatic assigned hierachical tagging system, for Spreadsheet 2000 it is .... well the whole fucking program. I find that most SAAS web based apps are throwing us back to the 1980ths functionality but with great GUIs.

So yes a modern implemented EccoPro could have some market share, surely enough to feed a family on the phillippines.