Watching Others Succeed

I try to keep a close watch on my fellow uISV'ers to see how everyone is doing. Its tough to watch them struggle but it is awesome to see them succeed. I've been following Jon Chase's progress for a long time now and he announced his 1.0 release last weekend. His application SendAlong is a web application for sending large files to people. I've used SendAlong to send some small movies of my kids to my parents and it worked like a charm. Which is no small feat considering the computer skill level of my parents.

And it looks like Jon is starting gain some traction as well. He posted both on SendAlong's Blog and his personal blog some details of the traffic he is getting.

I wish Jon the best of luck and success in his business. Right up until you launch your product, it is easy to feel that you are not really a business, but you just have a really time consuming hobby. But with the launch version 1.0, suddenly there is a new sense of what you are and what you have accomplished. Great work Jon. Keep it up.