I built Accelerator Keys, a niche tool replicating Windows accelerator key shortcuts in Mac Excel [0]. I made it to scratch my own itch at first, as accelerator keys are a much more intuitive and faster way to use a shortcut intensive app like Excel. Before this, power users needed to run a full VM and use Windows Excel if they wanted to use these shortcuts. It seemed like overkill to me.
Last year, I decided to take the leap and try selling my first piece of software. Here's the PH launch from a few months ago [1]. It's not easy tracking down users, but I've managed to sell a few hundred licenses so far.
It has been a fruitful journey. Learned a lot while building it (e.g. about accessibility features on Macs), but making this a product also meant learning about licensing, payments, front end for the landing page, SEO and FB ads.
Last year, I decided to take the leap and try selling my first piece of software. Here's the PH launch from a few months ago [1]. It's not easy tracking down users, but I've managed to sell a few hundred licenses so far.
It has been a fruitful journey. Learned a lot while building it (e.g. about accessibility features on Macs), but making this a product also meant learning about licensing, payments, front end for the landing page, SEO and FB ads.
[0]: https://acceleratorkeys.com
[1]: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/accelerator-keys