Ideamason abandoned

Posted by Thomas
May 11, 2009 at 10:53 PM

When there is crisis, every penny counts, so if you as a developer are facing employment uncertainty, you wouldn’t cut off any source of income no matter how small. Particularly if it requires near zero time to maintain that business (given the assumption no coding was in progress).

The authors are software professionals (=working in industry for real money and not making living of pennies from shareware development) , and IdeaMason seemed like something they did for their own need (writing computing books). IMHO they just found this to be the right time to cut off a project.

I was watching the website traffic for over a year occasionally, and yes the traffic estimates are very unreliable, but still, the traffic seemed extremely low, and other software developers that I know that actually ARE struggling have many times higher traffic (same traffic data source) than ideamason.com had.

Too bad, I too was hoping for further development.