Brent Simmons talks about his unexpected $1850 bill from Network Solutions, the process of divorcing his domains from a longtime home, and supporting customers as an indie developer.

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(The Network's First-Ever) Guest

• Brent Simmons (Twitter) writes a super-inessential blog and is 1/3 of the team at Q-Branch, who make a neat app called Vesper.

Show Notes and Links

• Fun fact: this is the first-ever show recorded for ESN. Cherish it. Forgive it its flaws (which are all on the host).
• Brent Simmons and his wife Sheila created NetNewsWire, which still exists and is now owned by the good people at Black Pixel. 
• Brent's series of blog posts cover his entire ordeal, from inception and first update through the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 7th, 8th, and 10th days' updates.
• Wil Shipley wrote a great article about app ratings and customer interaction for Jim Dalrymple's The Loop Magazine. Jim posted it as a free-to-read.