CocoatechPath Finder anniversary series
This year, Cocoatech turns 25. A quarter of a century of building Mac software, keeping up with Apple’s changes, adding features, fixing bugs, and occasionally wondering where all those years went. We thought the anniversary deserved a little celebration . So we started by giving ourselves a present: a new website!
A New Home for Path Finder
Our previous website had accumulated quite a bit of history of its own. Over the years, we’d changed technologies, added new systems, and found ways to keep everything running. Eventually, maintaining the website became more complicated than it needed to be.
The new site gives us a cleaner, more modern foundation that’s easier for our team to maintain and update. That’s the present to ourselves.
But we wanted it to be a present to our customers, too.
Much of the new content was shaped by questions our support team answers every day. How do I activate my subscription? What’s the difference between a subscription and a license? Where do I find a particular feature? What can Path Finder actually help me do?
These are all reasonable questions, and finding the answers shouldn’t require writing to support.
So we’ve reorganized the information, updated our explanations, and put more complete answers where people are likely to look for them. Whether you’re discovering Path Finder for the first time, trying to decide if it’s right for you, or have been using it for years, we hope the new site makes things easier to find and understand.
And we’re not finished. There are still a few things we’d like to add, but we’ll talk about those when they’re ready.
Celebrating 25 Years of Independent Mac Software
Path Finder has been around since the early days of Mac OS X. And we’re far from the only independent Mac developers who’ve been doing this for so long. Over the years, we’ve shared the Mac ecosystem with developers who started with much the same idea we did: there was something they wanted their computers to do better, so they built an application to solve it. Some of those applications are still going strong more than twenty years later.
You can’t have a proper anniversary party without guests, so for our anniversary, we’ve invited five fellow independent Mac developers to join the celebration:
Our guests are DEVONtechnologies, C-Command Software, St. Clair Software, Shirt Pocket, and Stairways Software. We’ll be sharing the stories behind their applications, how they got started, and how their software has changed over the years here on this blog. We’ll finish the history series with a look back at Path Finder’s own history.
After all, 25 years is a long time to spend in the Mac community. It’s nice to celebrate with people who’ve been around for much of the journey!
Black Friday Is Coming
And it turns out some of our guests are bringing presents!
Black Friday is approaching, and several of the developers joining our anniversary celebration have prepared special offers for Path Finder customers. We’ll be sharing those in our newsletter, so be sure to subscribe! So for our party there will be some presents for our customers, some welcome attention for our fellow independent developers, and a new website for us. Not a bad way to celebrate a birthday.
In the meantime, we hope you’ll enjoy exploring the new website and read the stories! Let the party begin!