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"I wonder what price could have been achieved had it been marketed as "Patio11's Bingo Card Creator" not "a well-established software business creating bingo ca
by larrys 11y ago
"I wonder what price could have been achieved had it been marketed as "Patio11's Bingo Card Creator" not "a well-established software business creating bingo cards for educational and recreational purposes"."
Assuming it mattered, and I don't know if it does or not honestly, he may not have wanted it to be known that bcc did the amount of sales that it did because that could hurt his brand not help it. Not that he ever called it anything more than iirc "wee" but honestly I kind of expected that the sales and/or profit was more than what the sale page said and that assumes that sales have been going up and not down.
As far as the patio11 brand that only matters to people on HN nobody in the rest of the world cares about that at all. All they care about is what the business will make and what the product is and what they see as the potential. Which, quite honestly given the product (and especially since Patrick ran it) seems nominal to me, given the amount of time it was in operation.
Obviously there was a reason he didn't publicize the sale on HN and the brand. You can draw your own conclusions.
- napoleond 11y ago> he may not have wanted it to be known that bcc did the amount of sales that it did Patrick has published annual BCC revenue, to the dollar, since it started: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/12/22/kalzumeus-software-year-in-review-2014/ http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/12/22/kalzumeus-software-year-... http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/01/06/kalzumeus-software-year-in-review-2013/ http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/01/06/kalzumeus-software-year-... http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/12/29/bingo-card-creator-and-other-stuff-year-in-review-2012/ http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/12/29/bingo-card-creator-and-o... http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/12/21/bingo-card-creator-etc-year-in-review-2011/ http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/12/21/bingo-card-creator-etc-y... http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/12/17/bingo-card-creator-etc-year-in-review-2010/ http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/12/17/bingo-card-creator-etc-y... http://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/12/18/bingo-card-creator-year-in-review-2009/ http://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/12/18/bingo-card-creator-year-... http://www.kalzumeus.com/2008/12/21/bingo-card-creator-year-2008-in-review/ http://www.kalzumeus.com/2008/12/21/bingo-card-creator-year-... http://www.kalzumeus.com/2008/01/13/year-2007-stats-and-year-2008-goals/ http://www.kalzumeus.com/2008/01/13/year-2007-stats-and-year... http://www.kalzumeus.com/2006/12/26/merry-christmas-part-2/ http://www.kalzumeus.com/2006/12/26/merry-christmas-part-2/