{"id":4793,"date":"2012-05-06T20:53:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T01:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=4793"},"modified":"2012-05-06T21:01:55","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T02:01:55","slug":"facespan-5-marks-misadventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/06\/facespan-5-marks-misadventure\/","title":{"rendered":"FaceSpan 5 (Mark&rsquo;s Misadventure)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.latenightsw.com\/?p=637\">Mark Alldritt<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/blog.latenightsw.com\/?p=637\"><p>I am a self-funded Indie (lone) developer.  I made a number of classic business blunders on the FaceSpan 5 project.  I broke the golden rule: <strong>never (never!) rewrite a software product<\/strong>.  I massively underestimated the effort required to complete the product.  I set off without having sufficient resources to complete the project.  Because I took so long to complete my work, the market moved on &#8212; AppleScript&#8217;s importance to the customers I intended to target declined.  Some may argue that the market was never really there to provide a return for a product of this complexity.  Finally, I didn&#8217;t pull the plug soon enough.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I never got into FaceSpan, but I&rsquo;m a big fan of Alldritt&rsquo;s main product, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latenightsw.com\/sd4\/index.html\">Script Debugger<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Alldritt: I am a self-funded Indie (lone) developer. I made a number of classic business blunders on the FaceSpan 5 project. I broke the golden rule: never (never!) rewrite a software product. I massively underestimated the effort required to complete the product. I set off without having sufficient resources to complete the project. Because [&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":[],"class_list":["post-4793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793","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=4793"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4800,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793\/revisions\/4800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}