I’m sure there are some of you out there wondering what’s going on and where the launcher you requested ages ago is…so I thought it might be good for me to let everyone know!
CLIFF NOTES: I’m really busy and don’t have much time to work on these anymore…they come when they come…
The longer story is…I’m SLAMMED! When the site was originally started…pre-blog days, I wasn’t this busy. My work afforded me the luxury of working on these fairly regularly and the site was pretty simple to maintain when it was just a simple list. As time moved on I had a few requests from people that wanted to know which launchers were new and asked me what I could do about it. I thought about it for a long time and thought a blog might be the best way to handle this…
My traffic prior to the re-launch was minimal…I was seeing about 200 unique hits a day, and requests were maybe 1 to 5 a week…pretty easy to maintain that. When I decided to switch to the blogging format I did a little “Hey, go look at the ‘new’ EDL Industries.” on twitter…needless to say the response was OVERWHELMING. On the day the Blackberry Blogs announced that I had re-designed and re-launched I received almost 10k unique hits. The requests also went through the roof…
Checking the account that handles all the launcher requests I’m showing about 600+ that have been fulfilled and completed since then…and I’m currently sitting with about 60 in the queue waiting to be completed as well. So the re-launch and support from the community has been great.
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Let me start by saying…I’ve been thrilled with the response that you…the community/readers/users have had. I didn’t expect the response to be so huge…and it’s great…SO THANK YOU!!! I’d really like to thank those of you that have donated money to support me and this site. This is really helpful…and I’ll touch on this more in a bit.
Next, My life has changed pretty drastically since the site re-launch. My work…the job that pays my bills…has gotten busy. This has drastically reduced my time to work on and produce the launchers. I also went back to school to pursue my MBA in the beginning of August. This is pretty much a time sink, so it’s reducing my development time even more.
So with all of that being said…I haven’t forgotten about you guys or the launchers that have been requested…my time is just stretched thin right now… I will certainly be getting to them…at some point in time…I just can’t give you dates on when I’ll be working on them.
HOWEVER, my major hurdle in development right now is that my RIM signatures for applications as well as the computer I develop on are at my work office. I obviously can’t spend all my free time (night, weekends, etc…) at work working on launchers for you guys. So I’ve been working on saving the donations and putting money aside slowly to buy a new laptop that I’ll be moving all the development stuff to. I’m asking you guys to help with a final push to help me get there. Any amount that you can donate, large, small or otherwise really helps…it all helps.
I’m going to keep taking requests…but please be patient as I’m not sure when they will be completed. The sooner I get a new laptop setup, the sooner I’ll be able to start working on these when I’m on the road or at home.
Thanks for all the support…and have fun with the launchers that are there for now!
