I wish to thank the hands who gave me clear advice: Ben, Fred, and Michael. Thanks men.
I was busy with my latest release and now I can participate again in this discussion.
This brief but informative
thread was instrumental in improving my decisions for my strategy for Leafy and LeafySeadragon. Here's a summary of my current strategy:
- keep the software free or almost free: the MIDlet may be sold for a low price, between $1 and $10, in order to pay for the rest of the software, the non-mobile backbone. The MIDlet requires a backbone to be of any use. Partners may share a portion of the income from the sales of the MIDlet.
- keep my day job: independent
Java consultant.
- start an active marketing campaign: send emails daily to potential partners and sponsor. The partners are for hosting a backbone network,
testing, and maybe coding, and the sponsor is for making sure that version 1.0 will be released as soon as possible (I'm getting impatient). I think that version 0.4 of the demo is good enough to show to the big guys.
- continue to improve the code. Priorities: nail those concurrency issues (use JSR 166, adapt some to J2ME if needed); try to integrate socket-Jxta; improve the simulation features to make a backbone demo more attractive.
How does that look? Cooments are more than welcome.
thanks
I'll buy you a drink at the saloon,
[ December 23, 2003: Message edited by: serge masse ]