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Share Subscription Revenue for your Virtual Startup

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 years. [...]

Ask: I own a great domain name, how can I turn it into a business?

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 your [...]

Interview: Founders of Aucadia.com, where Fans Get Involved in the Bands They Love

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 why [...]

Instant Idea Feedback for Entrepreneurs

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 community [...]

Facebook Game “Despots” Founder Interview

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 gamer, [...]

Ask Fair: How Much Should I Offer A Writer to Work on my iPhone App?

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 revenue. [...]

Finding Co-Founders for Your Project: Take Your Time!

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 initial [...]

1,000 Fair Jobs and Counting

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. This [...]

Fair Project Highlight: Have a Web Conversation with Your Friends

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 Brandt [...]

Reward Performance with Vesting

A few years ago, a friend of mine founded a startup with a long-time colleague who was a great salesman. It turned out that the Web 2.0 business my friend was running didn’t actually require those sales skills and so after a few months he had to let this person go. That could have been [...]