Tweet In an attempt to experiment with social media, I offered an instant discount of $2 for anyone who shares a link to Foundrs.com when they make a purchase. All you had to do to pay $27.99 instead of $29.99 was to share a link. How many people do you think took advantage of this [...]

Tweet By popular demand, we are happy to announce that your FairSoftware virtual startup can now share revenue from subscription services. When you create a product, you can now choose between the usual PayPal “Buy Now” button, or the “Subscribe” button. You can specify the length of the subscription in days, weeks, months or even [...]

Tweet Question: I own a valuable dot-com domain, but I’m not a programmer. I think it could sell for a million dollars someday, with the proper traffic. What sould I do? A: The basic idea here is to build a site to take advantage of the great domain name. By going on FairSoftware and listing [...]

Tweet Aucadia.com is a community website aimed at musicians and fans where the fans can get involved with the bands they love. It’s such a cool project, we had to find out more from Robin and Owen Spottiswoode, the two co-founders. Alain: Tell us about your product and maybe where the idea came from, or [...]

Tweet When you just found a great idea for an app, the first step (after the initial excitement subsides) is to gather feedback from as many people as you can. That’s what we just made really simple now on FairSoftware with our new feedback widget. Once you setup your idea and enter a description, the [...]

Tweet Yesterday Steve Mathers posted a project on FairSoftware that looks pretty exciting: It’s a Facebook game called despots. I asked Steve for some more info. The interview is below: Alain: Tell us about your product and maybe where the idea came from, or why you think this is important Steve: I’m an avid strategy [...]

Tweet At an iPhone developer Meetup a few nights ago, an iPhone developer asked me a key question: “how much equity in my project should I offer to the technical writer that I need to finish my app?” His gut feeling was that as the main developer, he of course should keep most of the [...]

Tweet Today we are excited to announce an enhancement to the way you create projects with FairSoftware. Many of you asked us for a more flexible way to add co-founders early on and offer more flexibility on the allocation of shares, since you haven’t always found all your co-founders by the time you have your [...]

Tweet Time to celebrate! We just recorded the one thousand Fair Job: a social member website is looking for a website programmer. While we are at it, it’s also been about 1,000 days since we embarked on the Fair adventure. Yes, about 3 years ago, we came up with the concept that you see today. [...]

Tweet Few people know that during the dot-com bubble, I tried to start a company about annotating the web, so that your friends could influence what you see. It makes sense to think that the web by itself is too large and needs to be personalized. So I got very interested when I saw Austin [...]