{"id":586,"date":"2014-05-22T04:42:32","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T03:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/?p=586"},"modified":"2014-05-22T04:42:32","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T03:42:32","slug":"online-software-selling-for-desktop-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/online-software-selling-for-desktop-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Software Selling for Desktop Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have finished creating and setting up an online store, using openCart. The store link is <a href=\"http:\/\/phoenixcomputersireland.com\/store\/\">HERE<\/a>. I have not customised the look and feel yet, or added many products, but the store is functional. I will be listing a number of products on here in the future.<\/p>\n<p>I have also signed up with a number of online marketplaces, including Payloadz, Cnet Download, TrialPay, and Softpedia.<\/p>\n<p>Selling desktop software have a more difficult route to market than Android or Iphone apps, since there is no single store to sell your products. You have to divide your attention amongst many of them. I am confident however that I can build up a library of desktop software on various sites, including my own, over time.<\/p>\n<p>I prefer writing desktop software and games, since there is so much more scope with regards to what is possible. Mobile devices are becoming more powerful and more fully-featured all the time, and are constantly being updated with more and more hardware and peripherals, but a desktop app will always be capable of a lot more.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the arduino projects, (such as the random number generator) that I have been working on are only compatible with desktop computers, and anything featuring graphic or CPU intensive processing would need the additonal power of a desktop machine as well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have finished creating and setting up an online store, using openCart. The store link is HERE. I have not customised the look and feel yet, or added many products, but the store is functional. I will be listing a number of products on here in the future. I have also signed up with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-software-and-games","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"aioseo_notices":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions\/587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}