Sitting here and drinking my tequila and Coke Zero tonight, I wonder about my progress toward a genuine release for “Krome”, the email application for the Treo 650 I’ve previously posted about. Now I’ve contributed to many previous public domain projects and even released entire programs I’ve developed under the GPL, but Krome is the first program that will not be free. Yes, that’s right. I plan to sell it directly to users as sort of a Micro-ISV (basically a one-man software show).
Of course, I’ve already heard my fair share of negativity toward this approach. Actually, I feel like I’ve heard from just about every naysayer on the Internet at this point, but everyone pretty much just rambles off some excuse that falls somewhere between the “there are already a ton of those kinds of apps available” to the somewhat more depressing “one person just can’t keep up with a big corporation”. I don’t know what to tell you guys. I already know all of these facts you’re giving me. I know that there are many email applications available out there for the Treo. I know that some of these apps have relatively large programming teams working for them. I know all of this, and yet still I keep working on Krome. Because the email apps I’ve used for the Treo so far….well….they’re awful.