Once, a few years back, my girl friend and me once more fought about who’d have to get out of bed again to shut down the iMac. I lost, who’d have guessed, but this also got me started thinking- the next day, I put together a simple little app called iWannaSleep, one more day and it was final and went public, so my fellow sufferers wouldn’t have to manually mute their computers whenever their girls wanted to sleep!

The software is freeware, of course, so as with all freeware, the payoff is less coins but rather satisfaction when you see how people seemingly like your app. The payoff, even for such free software is not necessarily NO coins, by the way, as it now happened a couple of times to me that a grateful user (fellow male, of course! :-> ) got back to me asking for my PayPal account as he wanted to send me some eBeer (absolute $$ amount varies with the beer price in the home country of the user). This is in some way even more rewarding than having people pay to use your software!

Now, what has all that to do with Korea? This was just another example of such a rewarding moment with free software: today I was looking at the “referrer URL” charts in the statistics file of our webserver and found that a major fraction of people visiting in the last month came from leicakorea.com and were downloading iWannaSleep. The site is actually quite nice and not merely lists the app (as many other places on the web do), but very nicely shows how to use it (or at least I think it does as I don’t read Korean...). Nice one!