Another good example of a successful microISV (I just remembered) is Andy Brice (in the UK), the creator of Perfect Table Plan, a wedding seating planning softw

Another good example of a successful microISV (I just remembered) is Andy Brice (in the UK), the creator of Perfect Table Plan, a wedding seating planning software. He has been an ISV with that as his desktop app product for over 10 years, IIRC. First got to know of him via his blog: http://successfulsoftware.net http://successfulsoftware.net and have corresponded with him too on a few occasions. He has many interesting / useful posts about the ISV business on his blog - on many aspects - from technical (he uses C++ and Qt) to commercial, though more of the latter, IIRC. I've read many, and found them interesting. Just got one today in my email, in fact. It's about how one-day sales helped him boost his sales some. (He tries various marketing / sales experiments now and then.) Another interesting thing is that he reviews or interviews other microISVs and their products sometimes - those posts are interesting too. There was one about a file compare tool which was doing quite well - Beyond Compare. He also started another desktop product, HyperPlan, much after the first, and I read that it too is doing okay.