Oh, yes!
I don’t have enough energy left to say something original here. So here is a quote from the announcement in our forums:
We are very pleased to announce that two important things have just happened.
- We’ve finally completed a 9 months development of the brand new version of Stuffed Tracker, our conversion tracking software. The new version was rewritten in PHP with tons of new exciting features added.
- Today we’ve also launched our new corporate site starring “Mr. Stuffed”, a stuffed doll from our logo.
New site screenshot:
Stuffed Tracker final screenshot:
Ok, we are now going home to sleep.
It’s a popular theme these days — make your software as simple as possible; instead of implementing something, make a shift in your mind and think of what NOT to implement.
Well, we do it kind of differently. We implement everything we can imagine while we have time. This is done on purpose. I need to see everything that is possible before I can understand which features are really exessive and which features are ideal for the software.
This makes the software messy at some point. A lot of stuff is in it, a lot of features of different quality. But I think it is very important to see and be able to use them all. This allows me to see the big picture, to understand how the software should work to feel perfect (at least for some of the users).
When I see that we’ve tried all the ideas, it’s time to sit down and thouroughly think through all the features and decide which of them should go away, which should be changed or combined together. It’s not an easy task, but after finishing with it we get an excellent software product.
Currently, Stuffed Tracker has already undergone this polishing phase and Factory Nova will only reach it in around 1 month.
A person whose mind is behind the Excellent Game Psychonauts and all that other Grim-Throttle-Tentacle games is a one hilarious genius. There. Just wanted to say this after finishing Psychonauts.
On a completely unrelated note: yes, we are late with our long-awaited traffic monitoring software. But fear not. The product is actually ready and we just need one more week to polish things up, particularly, finish with the 60+ pages user guide.
Who said creating and selling software products is fun-n-easy? People, get real — this is hard work!