{"id":12909,"date":"2015-11-24T20:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T01:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=12909"},"modified":"2015-11-24T20:00:25","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T01:00:25","slug":"ranchero-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/24\/ranchero-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranchero SpotLight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inessential.com\/2015\/11\/18\/my_app_spotlight\">Brent Simmons<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/inessential.com\/2015\/11\/18\/my_app_spotlight\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/19991021212201\/http:\/\/www.ranchero.com\/spotlight\/\">Back in the &rsquo;90s I shipped SpotLight<\/a>, a search engine that ran on Macs running WebSTAR (http server), FileMaker Pro (database), and UserLand Frontier (scripting system).<\/p>\n<p>It was the closest thing I had to success at the time, but it was still a failure. It sold just 10 copies.<\/p>\n<p>But it was 10 copies at $99 each, and people paid with a check, so I made exactly $990.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>It seems like such a small and cute amount of money. But it occurred to me just today to figure out how you&rsquo;d get there on the iOS App Store.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brent Simmons: Back in the &rsquo;90s I shipped SpotLight, a search engine that ran on Macs running WebSTAR (http server), FileMaker Pro (database), and UserLand Frontier (scripting system). It was the closest thing I had to success at the time, but it was still a failure. It sold just 10 copies. But it was 10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91,101,295,31,30,32],"class_list":["post-12909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-business","tag-history","tag-ios","tag-mac","tag-macapp"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12910,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12909\/revisions\/12910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}