Indie Anniversaries
It’s been 16 years ago today since Hazel’s first release. Why celebrate the 16th anniversary? Because I thought it was actually 15 years but got the dates wrong. So, to mark the 16th anniversary (or a belated 15th, if you prefer), Hazel is 30% off.
I realized that my official 10th “company” anniversary is just around the corner!
Thanks everyone for joining the AMA yesterday! Was a fun experience :)
We talked about a couple of technical and historic things.
Speaking of time flying, today marks the 30-year anniversary of the day we started doing business together as “the Omni Group.”
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We’ve seen a lot of operating system releases over the last 30 years—coincidentally, 30 years ago today was also the day that NeXT shipped the NeXTSTEP 3.0 operating system!
I forgot to tweet this year, but Aug 29 marked 16 year of Letter Opener!
Previously:
Update (2022-09-09): Peter N Lewis:
@keyboardmaestro is 20 years old this year. Michael Kamprath released Keyboard Maestro in 2002, but I didn’t acquire it until 2004 for the release of version 2.0.
Tomorrow marks the 15th anniversary of me building apps for iPhone. Before App Store, before iPhone SDK, there was a passionate community of developers exploring that new frontier on jailbroken devices. I built my first app without access to any device, and debugged it via email
Update (2022-09-22): Paul Kafasis (tweet):
20 years ago this month, Rogue Amoeba unveiled Audio Hijack 1.0, the very first version of what has become our flagship product. To celebrate that anniversary, we’ve got a great deal to share with you.
My DropDMG and SpamSieve are also 20 this year.
There is something very special about using products made by independent developers like these. It is software with personality, driven by a level of care and passion that is understandably lost in larger organizations. When I am having trouble or want to request a feature enhancement, I can send an email from somewhere in the application and receive a response from a real person who has the power to make things happen. Institutional developers have their place, but I feel an level of individual care from the indie software projects I use on a daily basis.
🎉 ATP EPISODE 500!!! 🎉
