He's back again

[River Valley Computer]

Look who's back.

https://www.d7xtech.com/2018/07/new-d7x-single-pay-purchase-option-buy-once-use-forever/

 

[JoeTech]

And he will probably only give you a single update afterwards. I totally forgot about him and seeing he wants $400 I’m going to forget about him again.

 

[lan101]

Windows repair toolbox is way better in my opinion.

 

[lan101]

Doesn't have some of the automation but half the time it was broken when I was using it back in 2014-2015.

 

[thecomputerguy]

Wasnt this guy like the beez neez back a couple years ago and people raved about his software? and wasn't he a member here? What happened?

 

[Mercenary Roadie]

Wasnt this guy like the beez neez back a couple years ago and people raved about his software? and wasn't he a member here? What happened?

I seem to remember the same thing.

 

[Slaters Kustum Machines]

Wasnt this guy like the beez neez back a couple years ago and people raved about his software? and wasn't he a member here? What happened?

Yep, the product in my opinion was the best of it's kind on the market. The problem is he worked on it seemingly 24/7 and updated constantly then once he had recurring revenue off it he got burnt out and kept promising updates and a new version, which never happened for a couple of years. He just basically disappeared. He did "hire" a couple people to run the "business", but by then it was too late. I moved over to UVK from D7. I was all in on D7 from the beta to D7II, but if you just up and abandon all of your customers, then most of them will do they same to you.

 

[Krynn72]

Wasnt this guy like the beez neez back a couple years ago and people raved about his software? and wasn't he a member here? What happened?

I seem to remember the same thing.

Yes, but then we realized he was a phoney. He stopped supporting the software in any meaningful way. Threw up an additional pay wall (on top of the subscription fee) to get even a little support. Then he decided to just "redo" the whole thing instead of fixing what people were already paying for.

That redo turned out to be a never ending rabbit hole where it became obvious he was in over his head with software development (or he just grew lazy) and this new version slowly became vaporware. He tried stringing people along for as long as possible but I think most of us got wise to it pretty quickly.

Edit: He also had a podcast for his company, which you could be forgiven for thinking it might include content relating to the company or software. Instead it was a couple of chain smoking/vaping neckbeards talking about stupid nonsense on garbage webcams with even more garbage microphones.

It's kinda scary how angry I still am with them even after canceling my subscription years ago. :/

 

[fencepost]

And of course a name change from FoolishIT.

 

[thecomputerguy]

And of course a name change from FoolishIT.

What did he change to?

Edit: Nevermind ... found it ... pretty much empty.

Keep it civil peeps

 

[fencepost]

I used to think it said "Full of $hiT."

I'm pretty positive that the pun there was what he originally had in mind when starting out - when you're young and not yet jaded, things like that seem funnier and inconsequential. If you do them with companies that become successful, eventually you end up paying marketing and rebranding consultants to get you out of them.

It's the same kind of mindset that lets people put email addresses like (completely made up but I'm sure it exists/existed) "sweetcheeks(at)aol.com" on resumes.

 

[Fred Claus]

Or how about the promotional pen company called "Pen Island". It's a real company but if you look at their dot com it can be read a different way. I'll leave that for you guys to imagine.

 

[Porthos]

Or how about the promotional pen company called "Pen Island". It's a real company but if you look at their dot com it can be read a different way. I'll leave that for you guys to imagine.

 

[ell]

Wasnt this guy like the beez neez back a couple years ago and people raved about his software? and wasn't he a member here? What happened?

yes he was, it was very popular then, then I'm not sure what happened, other free tools maybe.

 

[Slaters Kustum Machines]

yes he was, it was very popular then, then I'm not sure what happened, other free tools maybe.

Nope, he abandoned his user base so they abandoned him.

 

[cypress]

Edit: He also had a podcast for his company, which you could be forgiven for thinking it might include content relating to the company or software. Instead it was a couple of chain smoking/vaping neckbeards talking about stupid nonsense on garbage webcams with even more garbage microphones.

It's kinda scary how angry I still am with them even after canceling my subscription years ago. :/

No idea why I laughed so hard at this.

 

[cypress]

Or how about the promotional pen company called "Pen Island". It's a real company but if you look at their dot com it can be read a different way. I'll leave that for you guys to imagine.

Wow! LMAO!!!

 

[Slaters Kustum Machines]

Edit: He also had a podcast for his company, which you could be forgiven for thinking it might include content relating to the company or software. Instead it was a couple of chain smoking/vaping neckbeards talking about stupid nonsense on garbage webcams with even more garbage microphones.

LMAO, right on point.

 

[Cambridge PC Support]

Used to use D7 a lot, but moved on to UVK a couple of years ago and am very happy with it

 

[Go-To Gordon]

Nope, he abandoned his user base so they abandoned him.

Yep! UVK and Tech Tool Store are all I need.