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Tell HN: The Association of Shareware Professionals
3 points by vram22 on Aug 9, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
Had a run for many years.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Software_Professionals

(Formerly Shareware instead of Software.)

Would be good to have something like it again, IMO, for software products. Not necessarily with the exact same goals, or even about shareware, but a kind of umbrella organization for independent commercial software developers.



Id love to see shareware come back into fashion. I think it fills an important role that nothing else touches.

Probably needs a new name, though.


Yep. As they said on the ASP site:

Founded in 1987, the ASP pioneered the try-before-you-buy marketing method that is now universal in the software industry.




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