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So my app made it onto Lifehacker over the weekend. (http://lifehacker.com/5874115/ikeepm-is-a-simple-free-inventory-for-all-your-stuff). Since then, I've gotten over 1700+ signups, granted a lot of it are just folks who are curious but nonetheless, I do have a lot of folks who are using it.

A couple of days later I received an email from a marketing manager of a company. She expressed interest in buying a "fork" version of my app. Needless to say, I'm speechless and things are happening so fast. What turned out as a side project that I had hope to monetize one day, is now in consideration to be bought by a real company.

Has anyone experience this? She's asking for a price and I'm stumped. It's definitely a good problem to have, but I need to be careful.

So I signed up for mailchimp and I noticed they need a physical mailing address, which gets appended to the email of your newsletter. I live in an apartment and I would hate to put my real address on any site let alone a newsletter.

I'm thinking of getting a PO Box but in the event I move, I'll have to change those. Does anyone have experience with virtual mailing services?

http://lifehacker.com/5874115/ikeepm-is-a-simple-free-inventory-for-all-your-stuff

So I released my app (http://www.ikeepm.com) about 3 months ago. I worked on it here and there when I had time. Yesterday, my phone kept vibrating to indicate new emails. To my amazement, I had 200+ signups in less than half an hour. At first I thought it was a spambot but Apache's log files showed otherwise. I'm now over 1000 users in less than 24 hours and it feels great.

Granted, the app is still free but at least people know about it. If I can convert 20% of those people to paying clients, I would be VERY happy. Anyways, for those who found "success" overnight via a blog article, how did you capitalize on it? I'm working my butt off to implement some of the new features people are asking for. Being a one man show means I'm limited to time at the moment.

There are PLENTY of bug trackers out there, but I haven't come across one that caters to an individual freelancer. Github has a simple issue tracker but it's more for those who want to share their code. I'm thinking of creating something that a one-person (or one w/ a designer+developer) could use to interact with their clients (non software developers).

I understand a project management software might be better suited for those that juggle a handful of clients, but many of these software also contain a bunch of features that just get in your way.

I threw some HTML together just to see what it would look like. It's the only page I've made thus far.

www.echoio.com/issuebox.png