WWDC and Tender

Shortly after WWDC in 2009, we noticed a traffic spike on Tender resulting from a blog post titled Growing Pains. The post was written by Kevin Hoctor, a Mac developer who had signed up for Tender just one week earlier.

"It's only been a week of working with Tender and a few days of having it live for our customers to use, but I'm thrilled with it. The discussion forum is much more structured than our old Google Groups forum—we can mark issues as open or resolved, assign priority queues to issues, and, best of all, support emails go to the forum so they can't get lost in a cluttered inbox. It's not as large and in charge as FogBugz, but that's part of its appeal. We're even more committed to offering timely and effective support as our customer base continues to grow, and Tender will help us stay on top of our game." - Kevin Hoctor

Nearly two years later, Hoctor's company, No Thirst Software, is still using Tender for their customer support on MoneyWell and Debt Quencher.

Since Hoctor's blog post in 2009, we have a few more notable Mac and iOS applications using Tender.

Mac and iOS apps on deck

Papers - Your personal library of research.
The Cocoa Bots - The crew behind Hyperspaces.
Realmac Software - Creative Software for Macs.
Sparrow - The new mail for Mac.
Villian - wickedly good games for iOS.
Propane - Mac client for Campfire (We can't even begin to imagine what our life would be like without it).
M Cubed Software - The makers of Lighthouse Keeper, Code Collector Pro, Minim, Syllabus and Storyboards.
Primate Labs - The makers of Geekbench and Wiinote Wunderlist - Task management at its best.
FuelCollective - Makers of Permute, Eon, Pochade and Snippet. They also make a Mac toolbar client for Tender called Meaty!
Textie Messaging - The unlimited texting app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
Echofon - Full Featured, Super Clean Twitter Apps.
App Notifications - Delivering real-time content to your iPhone.
Concentrate - Concentrate, for the Mac, helps you work and study more productively.
Stunt Software. The makers of On The Job, Downsize, Overflow, 4 in a Row for iPhone, and Freeform for iPad.
Enstore - An e-commerce platform that works with Checkout and AccountEdge.
Test Flight - iOS beta testing on the fly.
Biolithic - The makers of Comic Zeal, ThinkBook and Twiku.
ExpanDrive - Access remote files with any application.
RunKeeper - RunKeeper makes tracking your workouts fun, social, and easy to understand so that you can improve the quality of your fitness.
Postagram - Instantly print and ship photos from Instagram or your Photo Album right from web or iPhone.
Momento - A unique approach to diary writing.
Moneydance - Simplified money management for your life.
Rocketbox - A powerful, new way of searching your e-mail in Apple Mail.app.
CloudApp - Share. Files. Fast.
SuperMegaUltraGroovy - The makers of TapeDeck, Capo and FuzzMeasure Pro 3.
Dolly Drive - Use Apple Time Machine in the cloud!
Carbon Copy Cloner - Make a bootable backup of your digital life.
Shiny Frog Software - The makers of DeliBar, IMG2ICNS and Shiny Droplets.
omnidea - The makers of RapidCart 3, RapidLink, RapidMaps, RapidViewer and Rulers.
Notify - An awesome email notifier for Mac.
Apparent Software - The makers of Socialite, ImageFramer, Cashcalculator and Blast.
Third Street Software - The makers of Sente 6 and Sente for iPad.
Mental Case - The Study App.
YourHead Software - The makers of Kiwi, Accordion, Collage, Blocks, Stacks, Kwix and Carousel.
Ehon - Your Mac loves eBooks.
Chocomoko- The makers of Eavesdrop, Brisk, and SweetFM.
Outpost 2 - A native iOS application for Basecamp.
touchAble - Control Abelton Live from your iPad.
codeREADr - Scan, record, track, validate barcodes and collect data with your smartphone!
Brightkite - Unlimited group texting.
PixelMags - Content distribution, one app at a time.
iWeb Buddy - An extension to Apple’s popular iWeb application. Where iWeb leaves off, iWeb Buddy starts.
Coradine Aviation Systems - Three magical ways to track your flight time.
SourceTree - A Mercurial and Git client for Mac.

There is also an Objective-C library that Matt Newberry wrote for Tender's API.

That's a pretty awesome lineup.