Andy Brice
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Malware is a real things, and we all have to be mindful of it. But, as a full time app developer, the explanation by 'satis' sounds a lot more likely than Remnote stealing your data for nefarious purp...
Winterfest 2025
1/8/2026
Winterfest is finishing, last chance for scrimping on your crimping!:
https://www.artisanalsoftwarefestival.com/
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Andy Brice
https://www.hyperplan.com
https://www.perfecttableplan.com
https://www....
Winterfest 2025
12/22/2025
I wrote an article about how it feels harder as an indie developer. it is partly a plug for Winterfest, but I thought someone might find it interesting:
https://successfulsoftware.net/2025/12/22/is-t...
Winterfest 2025
12/19/2025
I have a list of deadbeat vendors who have been very late paying invoices. Including a world famous hotel and a world famous sporting organization. In fact it seems that the more famous you are, the l...
Winterfest 2025
12/18/2025
It's that time of year again! 25% off some of your favourite CRIMPing software, including my own Hyper Plan and Easy Data Transform:
https://www.artisanalsoftwarefestival.com/
AI-infused
10/21/2025
satis wrote:
>Before I finished typing the 5-letter word the Google suggestions bar
>offered "an island located in the Tyrrhenian..." with a tiny thumbnail
>from Wikipedia. When I finished I got the W...
AI-infused
10/20/2025
Just this morning I searched "Capri" on Google. The AI overview told me it is a fictional island. But it's very much a factual island.
BundleHunt 8/2025
9/2/2025
>It’s interesting that around a quarter of the apps offered in the BundleHunt deal are 1-year subscriptions of some type.
It is a lot more attractive for the vendor to offer a steep discount o...
BundleHunt 8/2025
9/2/2025
James Salla wrote:
>Are there any discount specials like this for Windows-based software?
Bundles seem to be less of a thing for Windows software. I'm not sure why.
https://www.artisanalsoftwarefest...
BundleHunt 8/2025
8/29/2025
>When they offer a $35 unlock for $6 (and take home even less after
>fees), it feels like a short-term cash infusion possibly at the cost of
>even fewer future renewals since current buyers unlock ev...
BundleHunt 8/2025
8/29/2025
>With traditional software, devs would hold back
>features for big paid upgrades, which was risky and led to cashflow
>issues, especially for indie teams. Apps like Scrivener have felt the
>pain of th...
I thought it was funny that he said he had tried *all* the TODO apps, then listed ~5. There must be at least 100s and possibly 1000s.
Spotted on Hacker News:
https://www.al3rez.com/todo-txt-journey
HN Discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44864134
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Andy Brice
https://www.hyperplan.com
https://www.easydatatransform.com...
Hyper Plan
7/27/2025
Drewster wrote:
Agreed! I love this software. I don't use it al the time, but everytime
>I do I walk away happy.
Good to hear that. I always hope that my software will be enjoyable to use, as well as...
>Nothing but plain text lasts forever.
...written on clay tablets. ;0)
Andy Brice
>The main
>disadvantage of MLO, and I regret very much to write it, is that its
>developers have been living in a war zone for a few years now.
I which case they probably need your support, more tha...
Summerfest 2025 has started
7/15/2025
Last day of Summerfest2025 is 22 July.
Summerfest 2025 has started
7/3/2025
>PerfectTablePlan?
>Please, tell us more about it :-)
It isn't very CRIMPY! Basically a table planner for seated events:
https://www.perfecttableplan.com/
Underneath the UI it does some fairly hard...
Summerfest 2025 has started
7/3/2025
Amontillado wrote:
>Much appreciate your hard work, Andy.
Thanks!
Just for complete clarity, I want to note that Hyper Plan development is paused while we concentrate our finite development resource...
Summerfest 2025 has started
7/2/2025
Summerfest 2025 is live, with 25% of lots of your favourite Indie apps.
Apps on sales include:
Tinderbox (Mac)
Scrapple (Mac + Windows)
Scrivener (Mac + Windows)
BBEdit (Mac)
Plus my own applicatio...
>Abandoned Software and Lock-in
>https://bicycleforyourmind.com/abandoned_software_and_lock_in
I agree with pretty much all of that. All 3 of my apps store user data in XML. XML is far from perfect, ...
>sorry, MacOS 2028 will be released in late 2027, not 2028 as I wrote.
It is confusing, isn't it?
But it looks like macOS 26 (released 2025!) will continue to support Intel chip:
https://www.thereg...
>I'm not sure what you mean by Apple nuking everything from
>orbit
I am referring to the fact that Mac apps have to be continually updated to work with the latest macOS OS/processor.
I develop apps...
>but I pirate (unpopular opinion here, and understandably so)
Sufficiently unpopular that I won't be taking the time to make a substantive reply.
Amontillado wrote:
>My machines are 10 years old, so clearly Apple hardware lasts.
The trackpad on my MacBook Air only lasted 2.5 years. Warranty was only 1 year. Not impressed, given the price.