crossfire110

As a new customer to Harvest I have spent much time looking through the forums and I feel this post is by far the most significant one in terms of feature related requests.

Since I personally own a web application of my own in another industry, I do understand what harvest is getting at with the “majority focus” talk but at the same time I would just like to hammer home what Bob has said.

While I have only used harvest for 15 days I can see a trend developing. In short I have requested 2 features myself:

- Rather than using a drop down box to select projects when entering time ( we have 500 currently open in our firm) use an auto complete box instead.

- Additionally rather than clicking on an invoice and selecting print each time, it would be nice to have a button that said print all in invoices for xxx time period.

While these are both very minor in terms of development time , I have been told on multiple occasions they are not currently in the harvests active timeline of to-dos.

Ill be the first to admit although these changes are frustrating at the least it probably wont be a deal breaker. However, the problem lies in the fact that by not implementing minor features or features that don’t cater to the “majority view”, no ONE person will ever really appreciate the application.

For instance, designers will always yearn for a custom invoice creator and freelancers will always be pushing for a time track-able flat fee billing feature. In our case (a law firm) we would like to see better management of volume in terms of projects and more automation in terms of invoicing (batch printing).

While catering to the majority of your users may yield high profits initially I do hope you change this view and start prioritizing smaller feature requests that can possibly win you over large additional audiences ie. law firms, freelancers, designers.

developing large and small features in parallel will most likely secure your future growth within the industry and result in many people appreciating your product as a whole rather than “just getting by” on its parts.

Just my 2 cents.

- Sean