Gideros - What are the news?

Mells

Hi all,

for some reasons I'm away from app dev and it seems I won't be coming back soon.
However I am interested in what's happening for Gideros. Long story short, that's because I care.

Can I ask a few questions?

[1] Is there a reason why the top featured post is about the april 1st plugins? I didn't see it at the beginning of the month and found it... strange. Now that I've read the discussion I understand the joke, but wondering if it's still relevant. What do you think?
This also looks strange on the blog because no update is made to say "obviously this was a joke!".

[2] For a new user, it feels strange that the last comments on the "New version: Gideros 2014.01" discussion did not get answers (almost 3 weeks ago). I know everyone has been busy, I just wanted to say that it gives the impression no one is listening or caring (while I know it's not true, as @ar2rsawseen is always doing his best and has posted an update to the blog)

[3] Other than technical progress seen on the blog (which is amazing btw), any business related news for Gideros? I know the team came back a month ago and has been probably hard at work since then. I personally would love to know more about the future of Gideros. I know I know, I always come back with those questions. But I'm always wondering how healthy (see Monkey and there by @MikeHart) the business side is (not worried for the technical side at all), and wishing we would see some solid announcement (investment, partnership, anything), that would reassure us that Gideros is backed up and on track for the next years.

@atilim, @deniz, @ar2rsawseen, what are the amazing things you can share with us?
Such a great product must have attracted the eyes of partners, I have no doubt about it.

take care!

ps : Did I get some sort of superpower while I was away? Sink, Close, Delete discussion..etc...
Should I understand that I actually got rewarded for *not* posting long messages for a few months? Is that a message?

ar2rsawseen

Hello @Mells
Not the fact of your absence or silence earned you the title, but exactly the fact that you care, even if not in the niche anymore

1) Forgot to unannounce that, done
2) Sometimes that happens when you go and resolve the issue in PM, etc, it seems there was no response
3) Unfortunately nothing promising on that front yet, but we are staying optimisitc. We actually have such a low userbase (comparing to gamedev population), that some fluctuations, as partnerships or promotions can bring us completely to another level. Which we also try to achieve.
And there are also a lot of supportive folks here in community, that provide any help that they can, even notable contacts, so I'd say that is the matter of time that something good will happen, until then we are concentrating on Desktop support, and doing experiments with other platforms

Mells

hey @ar2rsawseen

2) Sometimes that happens when you go and resolve the issue in PM, etc, it seems there was no response

Great! Please do not forget that communication is important, if things are resolved it should be publicly announced/stated. It's important to make people who might consider subscribing to Gideros obvious that you care about your users.

3. Thanks for being upfront about it. Indeed it doesn't sound reassuring (nor really the opposite) but I like transparency.

To be honest I'd love to see the marketing side of Gideros more taken care of because this is how you grow your userbase, get numbers that are significant enough to attract attention, etc...
I know the resources are limited though.

We need (I still say "we", notice) sexier doc examples, website, onboarding process, content strategy, etc

OZApps

To be honest I'd love to see the marketing side of Gideros more taken care of because this is how you grow your userbase, get numbers that are significant enough to attract attention, etc...
I know the resources are limited though.

I couldn't agree less... full 100%

phongtt

@Mells: so you're leaving us?

Mells

@OZApps full 100% is quite an achievement
@phongtt I hope I'll still be around sometimes!

Mells

hi @ar2rsawseen,
- any additional feedback that you could give to my comment (the one that @OZApps quoted)
- or should I assume that your first comment contains all the news available today (and I would make up my mind based on that comment)?

thanks!