You probably haven’t heard of MacZot, yet. MacZot. Suprisingly Cheap Mac Shareware Daily.

Every day MacZot offers at least one piece of Mac Shareware at a discount over the usual registration price. This helps both the users and the developers. The users get to register their shareware at a discount, and the developer gets free advertising about their product and some cash. MacZot can be surpsing in a few regards:

1. You can’t believe how much of a discount you are getting.
2. You didn’t know there was a piece of software that does that.
3. You don’t know what the software is

I’ve been enticed twice into buying Mystery Zot’s from MacZot. $15 for 4-6 apps that I have no idea what they are or what the do. Both times I have been very happy as I have gotten at least one item that really justifies the $15 I spent. My first one I got AppZapper and Swift Office Ships (and a few other things). In my second MacZot, I got VoiceNotes and iClip (and again, a few other things).

MysteryZot is actually a very interesting phenomenon. If I had been told what the bundles were, I don’t think I would have bought them. But the excitement of not knowing got me to pull the trigger. Twice! And now that I have these little applications, I’m quite happy that I have them. It is just interesting how you can be quite happily suprised.

PS - This is my entry for the MacZot contest [1,2,6]