What a strange year we are having! Who could have predicted this on January 1st, when we were all toasting a great year to come, with so many opportunities and so much progress on all fronts?

The effects on LiveCode Ltd

Like most other companies around the world, we are really starting to feel the impact of Covid-19. Whilst as a tech company we are somewhat insulated from the instant impact that other industries such as travel and hospitality have suffered, the effects are now trickling through.

A proportion of our customer’s businesses are damaged, delayed, put on hold, and that inevitably feeds through to our bottom line. Income from commercial license sales is down, our service work sector revenue is particularly badly affected, and we have to accept that this is going to be the case for the medium term at least.

On the bright side…

We are doing what we can. It’s not all bad, we are gaining a significant number of new customers from our “Stay home and code” offer which is great for the health and diversity of our community. If you’ve joined us through that offer – Welcome Aboard! We’re running a great “Lockdown Learning” online webinar series, which we are enjoying as much as you are. In the long term, our community is strong, vibrant, growing, and will bounce back. However, we are now at the point where we have to turn to you, our loyal customer base, and ask for help.

Progress into the future

We want to continue bringing you new releases full of features, maintaining and supporting the fabulous and extremely complex coding environment that LiveCode is. The last thing we want is to contract, lose team members, slow down in all areas and put projects on hold, but that is what we will be looking at very soon and without the success of this funding campaign.

Losing team members is particularly damaging as it takes quite a bit of time for new hires to bed in, learn the program, and become effective. We have a fantastic team. We do 6 impossible things before breakfast with fewer development staff than any other similar company I know of. With your help, we’ll continue doing that.

Here’s what you can do

I invite you to support this campaign in any way you can. We’ve put as much of the store into the rewards program as we can. You can extend your license for 5 years ahead and save a significant amount on what you would have spent anyway in that time. You could pick up some nice extras, join our Lockdown Learning series if you haven’t already, get a LiveCode Hosting service (did you know our hosting regularly gets a feedback score of 100%? Almost unheard of!)  or buy a brand new license if you haven’t got one already. If you’ve been affected by Covid and you can’t afford much – even a donation of $10 will help.

If there is something in our store that you want, and don’t see in the rewards here, please let us know!

Bridging the gap together

Together we can do this. We can bridge this gap and come through to the other side of Covid-19. Let’s not see all the gains we’ve made eroded by a miserable virus you can’t even see without a microscope… If you want to see LiveCode continue to be the future of beautifully coded easy to understand Xtalk languages please contribute whatever you can, now.