What is the general form and makeup of MM developers?

tbessie · Post by **tbessie** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 4:39 am

I a know a bunch of you bought SoundDB way back, but how do you coordinate changes, have meetings, decide how/when to do new features, put them into place, alpha test them, beta test them, etc.?

What's your internal procedure?

And how do you make money out of this beast, or is it only for your pleasure while you work on boring "real" programming jobs in the meantime?

- Tim

ADDED: As I posted below, I'm only asking because I'm a developer and it would be nice to be able to work in a looser, more relaxed fashion and not be tied to a 9-5 desk job. Not nosiness implied nor meant.

Steegy · Post by **Steegy** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 5:13 am

What I know:
- Jiri is the creator and main developer of MediaMonkey (formerly SongsDB).
- Rusty is the second developer and I guess he joined the team when SongsDB became MediaMonkey (primarilly a change of name).
- They live on different continents and they use the normal internet communication channels, and obviously also the normal developing practices (bug tracking, wishlist, todo, ...).

What I guess:
- They do it as full-time job (although some other members of the dev team do it as an extra).
- This information is detailed enough.

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 6:32 am

These sound like the kind of questions an investor might ask. They're probably a little too in depth to be asked on a public forum!

Most of the monkey probably comes from the licensing, plus some from merchanise. So make sure you've bought Gold!

tbessie · Post by **tbessie** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 12:26 pm

trixmoto wrote:These sound like the kind of questions an investor might ask. They're probably a little too in depth to be asked on a public forum!

Most of the monkey probably comes from the licensing, plus some from merchanise. So make sure you've bought Gold!

Ha! No, I'm no investor -- just a software developer who wonderers how folks make these kinds of companies work. I generally work regular ol' 9-5 get-up-in-the-morning and go downtown to work kind of jobs, so it would be fun to be able to have something more freestyle. I've also been a software contractor, which allows slightly more freedom, but not much.

Don't worry, I've bought the Lifetime license.

THAT was why I asked, not to be nosey.

- Tim

rovingcowboy · Post by **rovingcowboy** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 6:04 pm

dont forget peke.
he is one also he started with them last year sometime.

he is someplace over around italy i think?

then you can count the skin makers and the script makers as
guest developers and they are all over the globe.

PetrCBR · Post by **PetrCBR** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 7:08 pm

rovingcowboy wrote:dont forget peke.
he is one also he started with them last year sometime.

he is someplace over around italy i think?

then you can count the skin makers and the script makers as
guest developers and they are all over the globe.

Not Italy ... Serbia.
Btw MM team has 6 members.

Steegy · Post by **Steegy** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 3:18 am

Btw MM team has 6 members.

I guess main developers + guest developers (e.g. for plugins and stuff)?

PetrCBR · Post by **PetrCBR** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 6:50 am

Steegy wrote:I guess main developers + guest developers (e.g. for plugins and stuff)?

No ... 6 main developers.

Post by **Peke** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 7:38 pm

@rovingcowboy
I didn't know that I bought a house in Italy (althru would like to have one)

I dev. Plugins for MM few years (from MM 2.0 I think, but using Songs-DB from v1.1 I think) and as fan also find new features (mostly seen thru my utils and additional plugins on my Fan Page), ~6 months as part Main dev. team. like PetrCBR. Now MM team like PetrCBR said count 6 members each devided to do something different.

Al_G · Post by **Al_G** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 11:35 pm

Investors? Hope they have at least $200K just for the domain name, according to leapfish.com

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Domain Name Appraised: mediamonkey.com
Combined Domain Name Appraisal Value Score: 460

Top Level Domain Name Score:  10
Unwanted Characters Score:  10
Length Score:  1
Archive.org Score:  439
Google Search Results:  133,000
Yahoo Search Results:  28,100
MSN Search Results:  1,211
Search Engine Score:  1
	Trusted by over 5 million customers!

reliable web hosting
Estimated Domain Name Value: $202,400.00

Steegy · Post by **Steegy** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 4:06 am

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Domain Name Appraised: microsoft.com 
Combined Domain Name Appraisal Value Score: 85

Top Level Domain Name Score:  10
Unwanted Characters Score:  10
Length Score:  3
Archive.org Score:  005
Google Search Results:  163,000,000
Yahoo Search Results:  25,300,000
MSN Search Results:  45,795,039
Search Engine Score:  10

Estimated Domain Name Value: $4,335.00

Yeah right... apparently they completely misjudge the significance of Archive.org ... Let's buy microsoft.com then!

julzcompufreek · Post by **julzcompufreek** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 8:08 am

Looks like Google is doing better than Microsoft (and MM is doing better than Microsoft as well, obvious by the last post!)

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Domain Name Appraised: google.com

Combined Domain Name Appraisal Value Score: 3670

Top Level Domain Name Score:  10
Unwanted Characters Score:  10
Length Score:  6
Archive.org Score:  590
Google Search Results:  7,280,000
Yahoo Search Results:  0
MSN Search Results:  29,953,570
Search Engine Score:  10
	Trusted by over 5 million customers!

reliable web hosting
Estimated Domain Name Value: $21,656,670.00

I don't know if being a search engine counts though

Post by **Peke** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 2:40 pm

I found a bug

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Microsoft have
Archive.org Score: 005
Which suggest that 4 numbers value is involved which is off scale and in case of correct one will change whole thing