Hi
@jv16
Thank you very much for this and I have some more questions for you
1. What are your plans for the Uninstaller
2. Will you release a paid Version too
3. Will you release other products when yes which products an what can you say about that
Mops21
Right now, my plans are to make Uninstalr as good as I possibly can. For the short term, it means fixing two reported bugs:
1) On some Windows 11 systems, uninstalling something can cause the system to show BSOD error message.
2) On some systems with a lot of installed software, the initial Uninstalr scan fails with Out Of Memory error message and the app doesn't run. This seems to be relating to the number of installed apps. For example, one user reporting this, said he has over 500 apps installed.
Neither of these bugs are serious in the sense that there is no data loss or damage to the system, but I want to fix these ASAP anyway.
It's now Sunday and I'm trying to reproduce these issues right now. I already tried on Friday, but I couldn't, so I'm trying again, until I can reproduce them.
There might be a paid Pro version coming in the future but I'm not sure, yet, to be honest. And if there ever is such thing coming, it will contain additional features, no features of current Uninstalr are going to be locked away or removed. In other words, I want to continue to develop a free and very accurate app uninstaller for Windows.
The main reason for this is that quite a few users have already asked how they can support the development and they wanted to donate money.
Unfortunately, my company is registered in Finland and although I no longer live there, the local law still makes things difficult for me. In this case, the law makes it quite impossible for a company to accept donations. In short, one needs a government permit to ask or accept donations, and to get the permit, you would need to be an organization or a foundation, not a limited liability company. So if I would do a paid Pro version with a few dollar for life license, that would basically just allow people to support the development but without calling it a donation, because I cannot legally ask for donations. And if one would pay for that, they could get some additional features. Something like that, perhaps in the future. Not now.
In regards of other products, I have some plans for new products in the near future. Namely, me and my friend David have been working on
Free Daily Check-In Service For Seniors - I’m Still Okay which is a daily check-in service for people living alone, especially senior citizens. I would like to make a Windows app client for that system and some feature improvements to the website in general (e.g. allow users to choose their check-in time).
I have also been thinking about making an alternative to Ninite, allowing users simply choose apps from a list and then those apps are installed to your computer without any user interaction required. Since Uninstalr can already uninstall things without any user interaction required, I think it might make sense to also have a way to do the opposite, that is, to also allow people to install software easily. I think Ninite is great, but its selection of software that one can install with it, is very limited to say the least. Right now, this is just a thought, and I don't have any actual plans to do this, but I might.
Not technically a new product, but I will be releasing an update to WinFindr soon, with some additional features such as the ability to search inside compressed files such as zip and rar files, as well as the most requested feature of being able to search inside document files. For example, to find which DOCX or ODT or PDF file contains a specific text. After I add these features, it would further distinguish WinFindr to be different from Voidtools Everything. I don't see myself as competing against Everything, because I love that app. I see myself making an app that you can use along side with Everything, for some different use cases.