Andy Brice
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Seeking the productive life
11/4/2022
Perhaps you should try his cinema usher style, typing while walking setup:
https://content.wolfram.com/uploads/sites/43/2019/02/07-popcorn-rig1.png
(even he seems to be too embarassed to do this in pu...
Seeking the productive life
11/3/2022
This a long essay by Stephen Wolfram(of Mathematica fame) from 2019 about how he stays productive. It touches on topics such as file organization and note taking. I thought a few people here might fin...
Dating other task managers
10/1/2022
Spotted on Hacker News:
https://evantravers.com/articles/2022/06/30/dating-other-task-managers/
HN discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33019629
I thought somebody might find it of inter...
Sarah wrote:
Hello,
>
>I am intrigued by block based apps and wanted to explore some apps
>before I dive all-in.
Do you mean graph as in boxes and arrows or graph as in function graph? If the form...
>I don’t see this being a particularly viable business to be in
It certainly isn't a business that I would like to be in!
The main competitor to all 3 of my products (PerfectTablePlan, Hyper P...
There is no way that Equals is going to replace Excel for 99.99% of Excel users. 0.01% of Excel users be might still be a market worth pursuing though.
Summerfest 2022
6/23/2022
The bi-annual sale of quality software from independents is now on. You can now get 25% off a range of software including Hyper Plan and Easy Data Transform (both mine), Tinderbox, Scrivener and Devon...
More and more downloable software is going to subscription, with the charge led by Microsoft and Adobe. You can see why the vendors like it, especially for products like MS Office that (as far as most...
You need to be clear what you mean by a 'lifetime' licence.
Sometimes vendors have a 'lifetime' licence where you pay once and get all upgrades free forever. This is almost certainly a bad idea (for ...
Winterfest promotion
1/10/2022
Just a reminder that the 25% off Winterfest sales ends on the 11th Jan:
https://www.artisanalsoftwarefestival.com/
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Andy Brice
https://www.hyperplan.com
https://www.easydatatransform.com
Best wishes for 2022
1/3/2022
Here's hoping that 2022 is better than 2021.
Cheers!
Andy Brice
Aibase
12/24/2021
Don't know what the software is like (it might be great), but the https://www.aibase-cs.com/ website looks like a shareware site from 20 years ago. They could probably double their sales, or better, w...
Winterfest promotion
12/20/2021
Amontillado wrote:
>Still, I have to wonder - is it the One True Way to plan a story or a
>novel?
A true CRIMPer should always have more than 1 piece of software for any given task. ;0)
Winterfest promotion
12/20/2021
The Winterfest promotion is on at:
https://www.artisanalsoftwarefestival.com/
Lot of quality software from small companies on offer. Including Outliner Software favourites such as Tinderbox, Devonthi...
Black Friday deals
11/27/2021
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
Not sure about any Black Friday deals, but Tinderbox and many other
>"artisanal apps" usually go on sale at the end of the year (as well as
>mid-way through the year).
This is ha...
Planning & executing
8/9/2021
I find that my paying customers keep me quite focussed! Obviously it is a bit different if you are an academic. But perhaps you can 'construct' some sort of customer (e.g. an academic peer who you pro...
Easy Data Transform
7/29/2021
mathew wrote:
Andy,
>
>I just watched your 11 minute YouTube video. So impressive! And elegant.
>I'm going to buy just to support your great efforts. Even without
>knowing how I'll exactly use Easy ...
Easy Data Transform
7/28/2021
Thanks for the positive feedback!
Andy Brice
Artisanal software sale
7/9/2021
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
They should offer one free app for every 4 one purchases ;)
As long as it isn't one of mine! ;0)
Artisanal software sale
7/9/2021
Prion wrote:
Does already having 14 licenses for the 20 candidates on offer make me
>an artisan then?
That is committed crimping!
I can only speak for Hyper Plan. We don't really support this approach at present. But what I woud like to do is add 'computed properties'. Say you have numeric properties A and B, then you could add ...
Artisanal software sale
6/28/2021
Deliyannis wrote:
What follows can be considered a brief ode to artisanal software, so in
>topic :)
>
>I think I bought Easy Data Transform briefly after it came out. I used
>it for one particular ...
Artisanal software sale
6/27/2021
Thanks! I really most update that video...
Artisanal software sale
6/27/2021
>Easy Data Transform easily handled 350 meg of tax roll data. The only
>thing I had to do was add a line feed after each fixed length record and
>write different embedded record types to different fi...
Artisanal software sale
6/26/2021
>I just saw the video for Easy Data Transform - impressive!
Thanks. The video is of a rather old version. I need to re-do it.
>Our local property tax district is out of control. I asked for a copy o...