You’re still alive right?

Yarp – this blog's been pretty quiet over the last few months – apologies. I have a good excuse though... I've been working!

Since its launch in the latter quarter of last year, Second Shootr has been a roaring success – rocketing to the top 100 in a number of app stores worldwide and being used on a daily basis by thousands of photographers internationally.

Here lies a problem. No photography business is ever exactly the same (if they were the same, we'd be rubbish artists!) so I've got to try and please thousands of photographers with my decisions... never an easy task.

The decision process is made a little easier with the feedback page – hundreds of you have nominated and voted on feature requests and this has given me a better idea of what the hive-mind wants. It's clear that people would like some form of backup option (be that a pdf that's emailed to you or something more complex), others have mentioned that they don't like using the iPhone/iPod touch keyboard to key in information and others want new menu sections.

Apple's also changed the game too. The advent of the iPad has opened up potential doors for Second Shootr to be 'inflated' onto a larger device – but this needs some thought. iPads don't work the same way as iPhones, you can't just make the UI bigger, you've got to consider how the application will be used. The announcement of the ultra-high resolution iPhone 4 has once again changed the way we use a mobile phone and there's certainly some possibilities there too.

I can't promise to please everyone, but I've now got a plan going forwards. I'm not going to divulge anything here yet because I don't like to make promises I can't keep (although the astute amongst you will probably work out what's planned) plus it all depends on boring things like money and feasibility.

In summary – yup, I'm still alive. Second Shootr is still very much alive and there's some big plans this year to take it much further than it already is.

Keep an eye on the blog over the next few months for more updates – better still, sign up to our email mailing list and be the first to know what's going on – I'm gonna try and find some goodies for you email subscribers too.