Quotator, first Beta

Don't judge my entrepreneurial skills by this little toy program: it probably very much resembles the proverbial solution in search of a problem. The reason "Quotator" exists is that I just wanted to have available the functionality that this software now provides.

Current "official" description of the program

Quotator is a quote rotator:

• Create and maintain a collection of "quotes": favourite aphorisms, your advertising messages or other snippets of wisdom.
• Automatically append a randomly selected "quote" from your collection to each of your outgoing email messages.

Value proposition

In other words: your email and news messages can now enlighten your readers, show off your accumulated wisdom, or spread your advertising (without the annoyance of junk mail, since it is just in the signature) in ever-changing ways.

Join the beta test

If it ain't broke ... Break it!
~ Kevin Roberts

If this sounds interesting to you and you are reckless, you don't have to wait until the fully polished product comes out: get your hands dirty on the today. Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 is required on your computer, you can . Help files are , the German one is almost complete (while the software itself is currently only available in English), the English one is almost empty. That's Beta: better than nothing.

How it currently works

Quotator is designed to work with a wide range of email, newsgroup and blog posting client applications. It currently works with Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express and Opera Mail, but that's just because I have only tested it with these applications, and only prepared it to work with these applications so far. A lot more applications will be supported by the time the software ships.

Business model?

Not much of one. I don't expect to get rich of this. If I'm lucky, it might enjoy a popularity similar to my in a few months and thus it might help pay the bills. This software product provides some (however tiny) and consequently I will ask users who would like to benefit from that to pay an (equally tiny) license fee.