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Weekly Site Reviews

Weekly Site Review: TwistedWave

July 22, 2008

With this post I’m doing three things at once:

Bringing back my public site reviews of microISVs and startups who ask me to review them.
Showing off for the first time a very small part of Project X that functions right but has the CSS styling of the south end of a northbound cat: you are hereby [...]

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Weekly Site Review – PTH Consulting

March 10, 2008

This week’s Weekly Site Review is of Paul Haddad’s PTH Consulting, a microISV selling PTHPasteboard Pro, a Mac clipboard utility ($24.95 USD).
[Note: Right up front I should note that this review was paid for by Paul, falling somewhere in between the regular volunteer free site reviews I do here and the fixed price confidential site [...]

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Weekly Site Review – Pudding

February 14, 2008

This week’s microISV volunteer for the Weekly Site Review is Michael Sica, founder of Ataraxis Software. Michael’s microISV Software as a Service (SaaS) application is Pudding, a Ruby on Rails online tool for reviewing, commenting and approving visuals such as web page designs, brochures and logos.
Overview:
Pudding is exactly the kind of application a freelance web [...]

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Weekly Site Review – VisualHint

August 3, 2007

This week’s microISV volunteer for the Weekly Site Review is Nicolas Cadilhac, who’s Canadian company VisualHint since it started in October 2006 has one product out and a second in public beta.
Overview:
VisualHint’s first product is Smart PropertyGrid.Net (pricing starts at $139 USD), a highly-customizable propertygrid for developers in the .NET world. His second product, Smart [...]

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Weekly Site Review – SilverCurve’s ForeFlight iPhone Edition

July 25, 2007

It’s been two months and too long since my last Weekly Site Review, and high time to resurrect this feature of this blog! This week’s microISV volunteer for the Weekly Site Review is Jason Miller, who’s company SilverCurve, LLC now has two products out, one of them the first 3rd party application for the Apple [...]

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Weekly Site Review – RNSoft

May 24, 2007

After taking a few weeks break to attend to other matters, it’s time to get back into the game! This week’s microISV volunteer for my Weekly Site Review post is Ronald Northrip, founder of RNSoft.

RNSoft has two related products. The first, rssDreamFeeder, ($49 to $79 USD) integrates RSS feed creation into the site building and [...]

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Weekly Site Review – NewsInjector

April 27, 2007

This week’s micro-ISV volunteer for my Weekly Site Review post is Vilmantas Baranauskas, founder of newsinjector.com.

NewsInjector modifies any PHP, Perl, Ruby on Rails, Java, ASP .NET server based application in one very specific way. With NewsInjector, a corporate system admin, PM or programmer can inject and control a stream of news announcements into a web [...]

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Weekly Site Review – E-junkie

April 12, 2007

This week’s micro-ISV volunteer for my Weekly Site Review post is Robin Kohli, founder of Tucson, Arizona-based E-junkie.

E-junkie is a micro-ISV and provides a service to micro-ISVs who want to streamline their ecommerce processing and followup. Specifically, E-junkie sells a shopping cart service that works with a variety of payment processors (PayPal, Google, ClickBank, Authorize.net) [...]

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Why the Weekly Site Review?

April 10, 2007

Simply put, so I get emails like this:
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Hey Bob!
Thanks for all your great input. I’ve considered your excellent input and have spend the past couple of weeks concentrating on giving a better user experience:
http://www.share-house.com.au/
The results? Amazing!
– FreeHouse was up running for 3 [...]

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Weekly Site Review – HandyRecovery

April 4, 2007

This week’s micro-ISV volunteer for my Weekly Site Review post is Sergey Petrov, founder of Russia-based SoftLogica.
SoftLogica has no less than 7 products, but this review is focusing on the one product site Sergey volunteered: HandyRecovery – a small application for recovering deleted Windows files. However, since the other 6 product pages/sites follow the same [...]

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Monday Site Review ==> Weekly Site Review

April 2, 2007

Just a quick note – I’m moving the Monday Site Review to tuesday/wednesdayish (that’s a day out here in CaliforniaLand) and renaming it the Weekly Site Review. Also, I need more volunteers! If you’d like me to review your micro-ISV site for free, please drop me a line at bobw@safarisoftware.com.

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Site Review Monday – LeadsOnRails.com

March 26, 2007

This week’s volunteer for the Site Review Monday post is Scott Meade, founder of Synap Software.

Synap Software’s main micro-ISV product is LeadsOnRails.com, a Web 2.0 small business leads management application. With LeadsOnRails, a small business such as an insurance agency, elective surgery practice, consulting firm, software development shop or micro-ISV selling to businesses can capture, [...]

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Site Review Monday – Bungalow Software

March 19, 2007

This week’s volunteers for the Site Review Monday post is Clay and Terri Nichols, founders of Bungalow Software.

Bungalow Software has some 22 products designed to help people who have suffered a stroke, brain injury or from aphasia help regain their ability to speak and communicate. Bungalow has been a successful micro-ISV since 1995.

Generally, Bungalow Software [...]

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Site Review Monday – Freehouse

March 12, 2007

This week’s volunteer for my Site Review Monday post is Alfie John, founder of Victoria, Australia-based Freehouse.
Freehouse is an online classified ad Web 2.0 site where you can post real estate, houses, apartments and rooms (“Single room with polished floors, furnished, share with 2 humans, mature, quiet and a cat, immature, cunning”) to rent, share [...]

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Looking for volunteers/victims and interviewees

March 7, 2007

…Well, not so much victims as micro-ISVs with thick skins, a burning desire to improve their web site and a willingness to do things in public.
I’ve got a couple of micro-ISV’s lined up for the Site Review Monday, but if you’d like to have me review your site at http://mymicroisv.com, please email me at bobw@safarisoftware.com. [...]

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