Ballpark Has a New Home

About a year ago, we started searching for a new home for Ballpark, our invoicing and time tracking app. After the rapid growth of Flow, I realized that we were neglecting Ballpark and its customers. I felt that it would be better if we focused the whole team on one product and found a great team to take over our other products.

Today, I’m happy to announce that we’ve found Ballpark a great new home. We spoke to a lot of people over the past year, and we were surprised to find that it’s actually really hard to sell a small but profitable SaaS software product. Everyone we talked to wanted our team to come along with it, or to shut it down and migrate our customers to their product. We wanted someone who would take great care of our customers and grow Ballpark into something even better.

About a month ago, I got a call from JD Graffam and we hit it off immediately. Like me, he started out with a design agency — Simple Focus, which he still runs — and is now diversifying and building his own products. Most recently, they acquired Pulse, a cashflow tracking app that was in a similar place. He showed me his plan to grow Ballpark, outlined who’s going to work on it, and I was impressed. So over the past couple weeks we cut a deal, and as of Friday Ballpark is now officially in their hands.

Starting this week, the crew at Simple Focus is going to start dusting off the cobwebs and tackling the backlog of customer requested features. We can’t wait to see what they do with it and count ourselves as happy customers — we still use Ballpark every day at MetaLab.

Good luck, JD and the team at Simple Focus. We wish you guys all the best.

You can check out the announcement blog post here on the Ballpark blog.

-Andrew