Tweak Your Marketing (Score 2, Interesting)

I can't help you with any software success stories, but I can give you my first impresion of your product, for what it's worth- At first glance it comes across like any other image viewer, which is not good because I already have irfanview, and am quite happy with it, so why should I pay for yours? Well, after going over the features, there are a couple of things your product offers that most image editors don't offer. Don't market it as an image editor. Sell it as a "Network Image Grabber". Organize your list of features under categories, like Networking features, Editing features and Thumbnailing features, and make the most unique categories the most prominant. As far as hackers stealing your work, consider opening up the source code under the GPL. At least that way you would stand a chance of getting something in return(improved code), for what is already being taken. You could give the code away, and still sell the binaries.