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Hi folks, this is Ye Olde HeroMachine Creator Jeff, and I’d like to get your help. Now that the first rush of panic over losing my job has passed and HeroMachine seems to be well on its way to supporting us financially, the time has come to take stock of where we are and what we ought to be doing next. I’ve put together a survey to get some idea of who uses the site for what now, and what you want it to be in the future. If you’d take a few moments to answer these five short questions, I’d really appreciate it.

I just wanted to give y'all a heads-up that I got laid off from my regular job today. On the one hand, obviously that sucks. But on the other hand, I am leaning pretty seriously towards making HeroMachine my full-time obsession once again. Ad revenue has gone way up over the last few months, to the point that it's a viable option.

I haven't decided for sure yet. But if that's the way I go, that means hopefully more app improvements like finally finishing out all the left-right item sets and such.

Thanks again to all of you for your long-time and continued support of me and the site. I'll keep you posted about how things go, any decisions made, etc.

Hi all, your nearly-absentee-owner Jeff here with a quick question.

I'm thinking of running a Facebook contest designed to get more likes, increase the pool of people using HeroMachine beyond the traditional, and increase incoming links. The idea would be to have people use HM3 to make a portrait of a character from a novel, novella, or short story collection they have written. The winner would get to have a cover for that product designed and illustrated by yours truly, much like I've done for Ian Thomas Healy's "Just Cause" books.

Is that something you think would be of interest?

I imagine even if you haven't written a book yourself, it might be fun to have one for a book idea you've had.

Anyway, I'm throwing it open to comment, please let me know what you think (good, bad, or indifferent).

I just wanted to take a moment to wish a very Happy Birthday to our own Hammerknight. Thanks for all you do around here, buddy, and I hope you have a great one!