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2 posts published by Andy Brice during August 2025| Successful Software
2 posts published by Andy Brice during August 2025| Successful Software
My seating planner software, PerfectTablePlan, is now at v7. Major upgrades are paid (discounted 60% compared to new licences), which means I have done 6 cycles of paid upgrades. I was curious about how long it took people to upgrade, and what percentage of sales are upgrades. So I took a few minutes to crunch […]| Successful Software
I am always on the lookout for cost and time effective ways that I can market my software products. Previously, I have had quite a lot of success with Google Adwords Pay Per Click ads. However, the…| Successful Software
2 posts published by Andy Brice during July 2025| Successful Software
Bearing in mind that I am a developer and NOT A LAWYER, it is my understanding that if: You host a discussion forum. and You, or any of your users, are based in the UK. Then the UK government consi…| Successful Software
I received this unsolicited email a few days ago. I develop a data wrangling tool, Easy Data Transform. It not really a ‘data extraction service’. Also, they are implying that they will…| Successful Software
I rather enjoy the glorious spectacle of high camp that is Eurovision. Eurovision voting has always been rather suspect, with strong regional voting patterns. But the 2025 voting patterns seemed pa…| Successful Software
My recent post, 20 years working on the same software product, finally got this blog past 3 million page views: And it only took me 18 years! I know some people wouldn’t get out of bed for 3 …| Successful Software
WordPress offered to generate an image for my last blog post. Here is the prompt it suggested: “Generate a high-resolution, highly detailed image capturing the essence of “20 Years of PerfectTablePlan Software.” The main subjects should be two screenshots side-by-side: one showcasing PerfectTablePlan version 1, reflecting a vintage desktop interface with a Windows aesthetic from […]| Successful Software
My main development PC is now 5 years old and the end of life for Windows 10 is looming. I might be upgrade it to Windows 11 (there is apparently a BIOS hack if your chip doesn’t have the req…| Successful Software
I released version 1 of my table seating planning software, PerfectTablePlan, in February 2005. 20 years ago this month. It was a different world. A world of Windows, shareware and CDs. A lot has c…| Successful Software
Anyone who has a blog will be used to endless emails along the line of: “Hey, I love your blog. I particularly love what you said about . Please can I post some ir…| Successful Software
