Final update…
After much consideration, I’ve decided I’m not going to release ProductDeck (or BlogDeck: Yes, I did do that in the end too!) to other devs. My reasons are two fold…
- It’s really bloody good! I’ve had a few people who actually know what they’re doing look at it, and the feedback has been fantastic (one even offered to buy it off me!). It’s weakness is how well locked down it is, or to be more precise, isn’t. If it ended up growing legs, it’d be easy to hack and then freely distribute. I don’t want that.
- Support. I know from years in the RW community the type of market this thing has, and how much support this market needs (read: a huge amount!). I’m not willing to get involved in that, no matter how much it might make (which I suspect isn’t really that much).
I started off on this path to create a solution for my own clients, so that’s what I’m going back to. It’s going to be an in-house solution, only ever sitting on my servers, and only ever available to my clients.
I suspect in time I’ll get the full package and marketing sorted to launch it as a WaaS. But that’s a way off. If ever.
So, thanks for the comments above and the great feedback I’ve had via messages on other channels.