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by terranstyler 4176 days ago
Obviously "Panic" is a well-known company for developing IOs applications and for at least 145 people on HN this is common knowledge.

Is there anything special about this company?

EDIT: Although the people downvoting (currently -1) this won't read this edit anymore, the question was (and is) meant serious.
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netnichols 4176 days ago
Panic is actually more well known as a company that makes Mac apps. Many would call them the preeminent developers for the Mac platform (along with Omni). So think of it like this...

A hugely popular (for its market), established, independent, and profitable software company gives clear and transparent insight into how the past year has gone for them and their products.

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bhaak 4176 days ago
Panic is one of the best-known Mac-only software developing companies that are out there, well connected in the blogosphere, been around for quite some time and their products generally loved by their users.

It is a matter of opinion if that makes them special or not.

I guess their Panic report hasn't been upvoted just for being from Panic but also because we have here another critical voice of Apple and the Appstore processes from a company that for sure doesn't just like doing Apple-bashing.

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hellweaver666 4176 days ago
Panic are one of the longest standing developers of Mac Apps. They used to make one of the earliest Mac MP3 playing apps (called Audion) which very nearly got purchased by Apple as the foundation for iTunes.

https://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/

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snowwrestler 4175 days ago
Not really, which is why their report is interesting. I don't run a software company, so it's interesting to see the report from a company whose software I use. Plus their posts tend to be well-written.

Compare to patio11, who runs a couple of small online services that together gross only a couple hundred thousand dollars per year--nothing remarkable, from a business sense. Yet his blog posts about running a software business regularly shoot to the top of HN because they're well-written posts about running a solo software business.

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archagon 4176 days ago
They're considered a design darling in terms of their OSX and now iOS apps. Really high quality software.
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RustyRussell 4176 days ago
Agreed. I felt a bit like I'd accidentally clicked on an ad. Came here to see if I'd missed something.
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