What do you want in shareware?

[Durbrow]

I want to start a lasting thread on what people would most like to see in shareware/freeware/donationware. What niches still need to be filled? What would modestly rock your world? Be realistic and maybe a smart developer will pay attention. Or maybe there is a modestly priced application already out there.

Me first:

A small utility that provides a contextual menu to insert (paste) an image into any cocoa application. The CMM would show a thumbnail, by selecting the thumbnail the image would be pasted into Mail, Create, TextEdit, etc.

A small utility that would word count and show a progress bar in all Cocoa application. Yes, Nanocount can do this but only for TextEdit.

 

[perfessor101]

Moderately priced spreadsheet application that is compatible with Excel spreadsheets and a lot more robust than AppleWorks. Something like Nisus Writer Express is to Microsoft Word. Preferably a Cocoa app, able to provide spreadsheet and graphing services to other Cocoa applications, and probably using XML as its native file format. Excel was originally a Mac application, something like this could bring spreadsheets back home. This would be very ambitious for a single developer to tackle, but perhaps there is an open source engine that could be drawn on for the core in the same way Safari draws on an open source rendering engine.