Archive for the ‘Porchlight’ Category

I wrote about our love of Fluid a few weeks ago, but it occurred that I should do some updates to Porchlight to make it work better in an SSB.

Now if you create a new SSB in Fluid and point it at your Porchlight account’s URL, it will automatically pull in a 512×512 high resolution Porchlight icon to use as the application icon. Very nice!

While we’re actively looking to find Porchlight, our hosted bug tracker, a new home, it doesn’t mean we’re going to set it out to pasture just to wilt away. With that in mind, I decided to spend my Saturday afternoon putting a fresh coat of paint on the homepage.

The last time we updated the look was in 2006, so it was looking a bit long in the tooth. Just for comparison here is the old and new version side-by-side.

Who knows. Maybe this look will trickle its way into the main Porchlight application? Let me know what you think!

We’ve decided to sell Porchlight, our hosted bug tracking solution we developed in 2006.

Porchlight is in the black and requires little maintenance, but as our company’s direction shifts away from Web applications, it makes little sense to keep it in the stable to be neglected. Because of this, we want to let someone else grow it. We don’t want to be one of those developers that just closes up shop, so we’d like to sell it to a company or other small development who is interested in the Web application space.

I firmly believe that whoever purchased Porchlight could easily increase revenue tenfold by adding two features: attachments and basic collaboration features like messaging.

If you’re interested, get in touch and we’ll discuss.