a long journey... now what?

Years of practice, dedication... sometimes lapses, but I persevered, and finally, after 3 years...

Completed Quake III Arena in singleplayer mode.

Now what? (I actually downloaded UT2003... we'll see how well my athlon can handle it :)

Keystone LIVES!

3 years ago, in the midst of the dotcom boom, I took a product I had been working on for 4 years and sold it to a dotcom in California. The dotcom bubble burst, things went sour, and I was out a product I was proud of.

Fast forward to this winter, when said dotcom basically went out of business, I was able to snap up the application for no cash out of pocket, and I was back in control of my product.

Earlier this week I released an updated Alpha version, and decided it was time to let folks out on the net really know about it. The main site to advertise Linux-related products is Freshmeat, so I dusted off the 3 year old record in their database, updated it, and said "Announce please." This would put it on their front page with other releases.

This morning I checked the logs on the machine that hosts Stonekeep.com (Thanks agaran!), and saw a pretty dramatic increase in traffic to the site (3x normal). That's to be expected, so I looked at how many downloads of my system had happened.

For the new alpha release, about what I expected. 60 some odd downloads.

For the older version, which I haven't updated in 3 years, but is considered the last 'stable release'?

610.

*blink* Whoah. That's in 2 days.

At its height, a release of Keystone would generate 5000 downloads per release in 2 days. 600+ after not updating the code in 3 years is amazing.

It gives me some hope though. Now all I need is to have 1 in 50 of those downloads to purchase a license.