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Whoa... this was really confusing to me for a moment. Kagi.com used to be one of the premier digital commerce platforms for software and shareware, especially

Whoa... this was really confusing to me for a moment. Kagi.com used to be one of the premier digital commerce platforms for software and shareware, especially Mac games, serving customers from 1994 until 2016. [0][1][2] Anyone who registered one of Ambrosia's awesome shareware games used Kagi's services, for example. It's really weird to see the company name and domain return again in this way! Best of luck to the team to live up to this legendary name :) [0] https://web.archive.org/web/19961216050944/http://www.kagi.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/19961216050944/http://www.kagi.c... [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20160413151203/https://www.kagi.com/company/about-kagi https://web.archive.org/web/20160413151203/https://www.kagi.... [2] https://tidbits.com/2016/08/04/kagi-shuts-down-after-falling-prey-to-fraud/ https://tidbits.com/2016/08/04/kagi-shuts-down-after-falling...

freediver 5y ago
#nopressure
Youden 5y ago
The name reminded me of Kägi, a Swiss chocolate wafer: https://www.kaegi.com/en/ https://www.kaegi.com/en/
Taniwha 5y ago
Yeah, that was my thought too
zmb_ 5y ago
This brought back memories. The first money I ever made from software as a teenager was through Kagi. It was some Mac utility shareware apps written in REALbasic around the year 2000.
- ben_w 5y ago
  REALbasic? Hmm, if it was about 2006 I’d wonder if it was some of my creations. Long time since I did shareware in any language, though. Something like £2k total takings, I wasn’t good at business.
  - ben_w 5y ago
    (And now I realise I misread the comment as spent money rather than made money)
- amatecha 5y ago
  Nice, that's awesome! How did you market/publish your software? Just a website? I remember trying to make a Hotline client/bot with REALbasic. Part of me definitely wishes I had pursued that stuff more strongly, maybe I could have authored some nice shareware as well!
memsom 5y ago
Yes! This was my first though - I didn't realise they had gone under. I think I bought at least one app via them.

freediver 5y ago

#nopressure

Youden 5y ago

The name reminded me of Kägi, a Swiss chocolate wafer: https://www.kaegi.com/en/ https://www.kaegi.com/en/

Taniwha 5y ago

Yeah, that was my thought too

zmb_ 5y ago

This brought back memories. The first money I ever made from software as a teenager was through Kagi. It was some Mac utility shareware apps written in REALbasic around the year 2000.

ben_w 5y ago
REALbasic? Hmm, if it was about 2006 I’d wonder if it was some of my creations. Long time since I did shareware in any language, though. Something like £2k total takings, I wasn’t good at business.
- ben_w 5y ago
  (And now I realise I misread the comment as spent money rather than made money)
amatecha 5y ago
Nice, that's awesome! How did you market/publish your software? Just a website? I remember trying to make a Hotline client/bot with REALbasic. Part of me definitely wishes I had pursued that stuff more strongly, maybe I could have authored some nice shareware as well!

memsom 5y ago

Yes! This was my first though - I didn't realise they had gone under. I think I bought at least one app via them.