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By: Finally preview gamerpics before you buy them, Yesssssss! « The Xbox Domain

Finally preview gamerpics before you buy them, Yesssssss! « The Xbox Domain — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:08:11 +0000

[...] was free or paid for. Now make way for The Gamerpic Scout. A Similar counterpoint to the now defunct Dashboardthemes, this new portion of Mygamercard.net will allow you to search for gamerpics ahead of time for a [...]

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Matt Brett » Microsoft Never Cease to Disappoint Me — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:07:57 +0000

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By: Thomas Cayne

Thomas Cayne — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:58:12 +0000

Hey Matt,

I have noticed your sites for a few months now. You have great talent and skills and I’m sure you will do excellent in whatever you do. As far as Dashboard is concern: Let it percolate the internet for a while. I am sure if you strive and hold it for a while conglomerates like Yahoo, Google or some smaller outfit will take notice. Dashboard is very well worth MUCH more that. Remember the [dot] com days? If you let is go for $2500 right now and someone pick it up and turn in into a million dollar biz how will you feel later on?

Realize your full potential.

By: Joey Primiani

Joey Primiani — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:24:20 +0000

Oh and congratulations on the baby!

By: Joey Primiani

Joey Primiani — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:23:11 +0000

Good luck to you on the sale! I say it is a bargain at that price.

By: Dustin

Dustin — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 17:36:45 +0000

Matt, have you tried contacting MS about a possible partnership? If they could provide you with the MS Points to pay for the themes, it would be a great way to lower the cost of running the site…that or ask them for a refund for every single theme you’ve put up since it is absolute BS that we can’t preview the themes before we buy them.

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:11:39 +0000

Congrats Matt! I can certainly relate — the birth of my baby girl earlier this year is what spurred me last year to sell off my side projects.

Now that I’ve adjusted I’m working my way back, but the extra time and money needed to have a baby leaves no room for wasting time and energy with side projects you’d rather not have.

So, no worries, I’ll never think you’re a sellout

By: Rockers Delight

Rockers Delight — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 08:35:43 +0000

Matt, if you don’t mind me asking, were game developers/publishers ever interested in advertising on DBT? With the amount of traffic you werere pulling in, you’d think so, but I can’t ever remember seeing any game advertisements other than from Google.

Good luck with finding a buyer. I’m pretty sure it will get snapped up

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 02:07:08 +0000

Man, I don’t even buy themes, but I’ll be sad to see this project go. It’s not even that it could be going away, by you guys selling it, it’s going to be worse than it was. So, thanks for the great run, and I hope someone will pick this up and attempt to continue what you’ve done.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:46:39 +0000

Best of luck with your sale