Miraserver Gets Sponsored Placement in Hotscripts

Many moons ago, I put Miraserver onto the waiting list for a sponsored listing in the CMS directory over at Hotscripts.com. Hotscripts.com, if you don’t know, is probably THE leading source to go to when you’re looking for some software to use on your website. Its a very cool and comprehensive directory, and the CMS directory alone (under the PHP language) has 641 different CMSes listed as of this post. A sponsored placement puts you into the top 8 of your category on this site. It isn’t cheap, especially for the CMS directory. There are a LOT of CMS packages out there, and getting listed in the top 8 is pretty notable if you’re trying to get attention.

Well, Saturday morning I got an email saying my spot came up. They gave me about a day to seal the deal and purchase the sponsored placement or I would lose it and it would go to the next company on the list. If paid by the month, it costs $350 per month for this position. Not cheap. I can afford it, however Miraserver just isn’t returning that kind of money at this point in time. However, if I pass this up, who knows how long it would take to roll around again. So, I purchased one quarter. And, sure enough, Miraserver is now listed prominently on the first page of the CMS directory at Hotscripts.

So, what does this mean? On top of EVERYTHING I have going on, I now need to hussle to get Miraserver’s little kinks worked out and release this thing as a “final” version. Let me be clear: Miraserver 2.0 works just fine, but it does has some known kinks to it. It really won’t take too long to get it done (I don’t think). The problem is that any programmer I have ever tried to hire to work on this thing ends up being overwhelmed by it. Because the product is fairly comprehensive and was almost totally coded by me, its very hard to get another programmer to be able to produce meaningful work on it without constant babysitting by me. And, that is the only reason why past efforts to get work done on this haven’t produce a final product.

So, I’ll need to do it myself. And after it is released, I’ll need to go through and document the hell out of it so that other programmers can figure it out without ripping their hair out. Only then will this product be portable in terms of my personal schedule. That has been and continues to be the major roadblock to a solid development timeline. The sponsored listing on Hotscripts does provide a major draw to move this to the front burner and get this thing done in the fashion I originally envisioned for it.

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