I’ve had this feeling since I used my first Zebra label printer back in ... 2003? It wasn’t until 2012 I was working on the backend programming of Zebra printer

I’ve had this feeling since I used my first Zebra label printer back in ... 2003? It wasn’t until 2012 I was working on the backend programming of Zebra printers that I realized Macs had very little support for designing and printing labels. I created a one off (as in still at version 1.0) native Mac app that used a transparent window and printed whatever was behind it. It is called LabelScope. Fast forward 6 years and I come to this realization that the label printer software landscape hasn’t changed much at all. I start poking around Electron/React and native node modules for USB, fonts, barcodes and ... a year later this app is born: http://label.live http://label.live The problem is, it’s really difficult to market. 95% of my users come from organic App Store search... My competition is either the free software that comes with the printer or very complicated and expensive Windows software. Yep, it already exists... but no one seems to be doing the “any desktop computer, any label printer” solution. It’s been a fun ride so far.