Many of you already know this, but it's an interesting story nonetheless.
Last year, I wrote ButtonGadget in about 3 weeks of spare time. I sold in on
my website using PayPal for $20 a copy. In less than one year, I bought two
plasma screen TV's with the profits. The program was written all in native
Transcript. No DLL's nor externals. As a VB programmer, I can tell you there
is NO WAY I could have developed such a product so rapidly, in fact, I
wouldn't have developed ButtonGadget in either VB or C++ as IMO the return
of time vs revenue would've been too risky.
The reason I mention this is to demonstrate the incredible revenue potential
for products developed with this product. I also could mention we're
currently using RR to build a very large Enterprise Application for Homeland
Security. It scales as well - from ButtonGadget to Enterprise Content
Management Systems connected to huge databases. $99 bucks just doesn't cash
in on it's value to me. And I really want to see Revolution do well, so I
continue to be able to write these cool programs!
On a much smaller scale, I wrote QTVR2MOV in a couple of weeks with a cover CD copy of Rev 1.1.1. This is an app with very a limited market (panoramic photographers who want video sequences from their QTVR panoramas), as with ButtonGadget this sells through PayPal for $25 (was $15 but that was a bit too cheap!). Even so, four months later I have a copy of Rev 2.1 purchased solely through its sales, plus some change.
Having looked at supposedly easy alternatives like Applescript Studio & Cocoa, Revolution was a revelation! Hugely cross-platform and so easy to use that you get drawn into fiddling just for the sake of finding out more about its strengths.
As Chipp says, it scales well. I am now planning the media management, archiving & data-input system for an ecclesiastical photography project that will involve over 60,000 photos, panoramas, videos & audio samples. This should automatically generate XML files that will drive a QuickTime interface for the web.
Ian
P.S. For a sneak peek at the QT interface go to: http://www.ianjameswood.co.uk/lsp/ 600+ churches in 3-4 years, if funding comes through.
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