The Chronicles of Stuffed Guys

First of all I am happy to report that we are very pleased with the amount of sales and general interest that we are getting for Stuffed Tracker only a month after it’s initial release. Our hard work and sleepless nights are definitely paying off.

In around a week we will be launching an upgraded version of the product with several new exciting features added. Because of them we will probably even bump the version to 2.1.0 instead of 2.0.3 as originally planned.

We are also trying hard to push our project management software, Factory Nova, towards its release. 90% of all features are ready, but we still have to implement a fantastic new interface that our designer is currently working on, polish the existing features, add the remaining ones, write documentation and do other “release stuff”. We are currently looking at late December/early January release. I will be posting here more news about Factory Nova including screenshots of the new interface as we are moving closer to the launch date.

Maybe a month before the release we plan to launch a private beta for the subscribers of the Factory Nova list (we invite you to subscribe if you are interested)..

Also I would like to announce that in the plans for both of our products is.. a thin client! Soon after the Factory Nova release we will start working on the Windows clients both for Factory Nova and Stuffed Tracker.

We don’t want to do anything big at first. For Stuffed Tracker it will be a simple notifier that will be sitting in your tray. You will be able to configure it to notify you when important events are happening on your site, like a sale, or a particular action, or maybe an arrival of a visitor from a particular referrer or advertising campaign.

For Factory Nova, a windows client will also work as a notifier that will remind you about your tasks, will tell you when new tasks are assigned to you and maybe something else in the same manner. It will also allow you to quickly create new tasks with the convenience of the native Windows interface.

Thin clients will be build upon an XML API that will be added to both products. These APIs will allow anyone to create their own applications (including web based) that will interact with our products and will hopefully do something useful.

I am really excited about our future plans. Hopefully we will have enough time to implement everything we plan.