As you all know, we’ve been running a survey of our users about their interest in an iPhone BlogBridge application. In fact, even before getting the final results, we began work on it and it is about half done at this point. Here are the results of our survey, so far:

As you can see, the large majority of our users (around 80%) are either not interested, or would ask for it to be free. This is understandable, given that the majority of our users themselves are using the Freemium version of BlogBridge. This is always as we intended it: BlogBridge is aimed at people with a major info glut problem, and those folks are not the majority. Those folks are happy paying users.

However, this does pose a conundrum for us, the maintainers of BlogBridge. After all you can imagine that developing BlogBridge has not been free, and while we constantly support and add features to the product, we too have to put food on the table and have a roof over our heads.

So we regret to have to say, that at least for the moment, we are suspending work on the BlogBridge iPhone application until we find a way to fund further development. We aren’t talking about that much funding, really, around $5,000 would do it.

We will be trying to get that funding elsewhere; another possibility is that a qualified iPhone open source developer gets in touch with us; we would be willing to put the new code for BlogBridge for iPhone under an open source license, just like BlogBridge itself is today. Please let us know if you have any comments or suggestions!