Well, I am glad “the famous” post about me the spammer is deleted from the FreshBooks forum. The user who created it has notified me that he has deleted it, on my big satisfaction. However, I guess the popular search engines will keep it in the search results for a little longer (I hope not forever). But at least the link is dead. So, this episode is finished. I don’t look back.
OK, my plans are again little twisted. I planned to inform and ask for opinions about invoiceSync some FreshBooks community users privately first, and when I would have collected some of their thoughts, I planned to make a separate post as announcement about invoiceSync. I though before I go public, it is better to get a feeling from few random users. And I picked this particular user because I thought that a user who is requesting a new feature in FreshBooks would be probably willing to see something new related to FreshBooks. What a mistake.
My attempt failed really catastrophic. I was accused that I am spamming the FreshBooks users for my business after my first email. And this ended up as a topic on the FreshBooks community site. Really unpleasant episode for me and invoiceSync. The post is here.
I guess the user I contacted has full rights to be upset, but I can’t believe that the few lines I sent him can be justified for the damage he probably did to invoiceSync with his public post about me as a spammer.
So, this is now ruined, I can’t contact any other users privately and I don’t plan to post an announcement post about invoiceSync, there would be no point in doing that now. However, I don’t feel that this is going to stop me making a real good product from invoiceSync. I believe in its potential and usefulness to many FreshBooks users. I would just have to find other means for promoting it.
I am so excited, after more than 6 months of playing with invoiceSync; I think I am ready for “The World”! The Windows Desktop Client for FreshBooks is here!
Uh, I had to yell this load. Ok, back to reality, it is not all that bright yet. I have to find FreshBooks users who would like to take a look at the BETA version and hopefully see the potential value of invoiceSync. Until now, the only place where invoiceSync successfully ran was my personal notebook. Few tries from the FreshBooks staff to have a look at invoiceSync had an inglorious end. Yeah, more I write, less reasons to yell load. Good I did it at the beginning.
I guess you all somehow backup your data already in a way, throw XML probably. But, with invoiceSync you can just select your account and download all your data to your station (for now Clients, Invoices and Payments).
