Comments on: The Micropreneur Academy

By: Ruben

Ruben — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:19:41 +0000

@Tarek – There are all sorts of apps there. Rob has a few listed in the showcase on his blog: http://www.softwarebyrob.com/micropreneur-academy-product-showcase/

There’s actually some pretty cool non web app stuff that a lot of the members are working on. For example on that list, QuickReader is an iPhone app that the I helped beta test — it’s an awesome app. And the app called Lapsus is a desktop OS X app, still in alpha but it looks great from what I’ve seen.

By: Tarek

Tarek — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:05:31 +0000

Ruben,

Thanks for taking the time replying to my post

“MicroISV denotes someone writing a small desktop application and selling it on a floppy disk, or these days from a website.
If you want to start a one-person software company, but you don’t want to write in Delphi…
Plus, the term MicroISV is narrow in focus…it implies someone selling downloadable software. What about those of us who want to build online photo sharing apps, online accounting software, and social networks?
”
Does all Micropreneur on Rob’s site are SAAS apps ?
Do you have folks doing (good old) desktop application ?
Does Micropreneur = Web App Developer ?

Thank you in advance for your feedback

Tarek

By: Ruben

Ruben — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:53:18 +0000

@Tarek – I like the BoS forums; I read them often still but you really can’t compare the two. In the Academy, there’s much less noise and the answers are more thorough and useful in my opinion. Plus, they’re private so it’s a very different feel.

Don’t forget the most useful part is getting direct feedback from Mike and Rob. The insight you get from their input you’ll never find in places like the BoS forums.

And I wouldn’t so easily dismiss the content. Seriously, if you want to succeed you’ll have all the info you need to make it happen. It’s truly high quality stuff that I’ve never read/heard before.

I completely agree though, it’s best just to check it out

By: Tarek

Tarek — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:33:49 +0000

Hi Ruben,

But beside the material, don’t you get a very tiny sub-set of users from the BOS forum (Joel Spolsky’s Business of Software forum)

The thing I’m somewhat sceptical about is that you’ve got pay a service, for getting help by people which also seems to lack some skills, what’s the point?
I want to be helped by people which have succeed developing and selling their product to make a comfortable income they can live on.

I guess, I’ve got mixed feeling about it right now, but I think I will give it a shot and try the service to make up my own mind

Best Regards,
Tarek

By: Ruben

Ruben — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:05:28 +0000

Oh no worries about that, I’m very active in the forums so I’m easy to find I’ve consumed a ton of information on launching a product, and I can tell you that the the academy has been a huge influence on my first product acquisition (woohoo!), and the fact that I’m launching my first product.

By: bjorn

bjorn — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:56:50 +0000

Thanks for posting this! I was searching for some unbiased info about the academy before signing up and found this entry. So, I’m signing up .. will come back and harass you if I don’t like it. hehe

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