{"id":108,"date":"2010-07-10T07:01:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T14:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/?p=108"},"modified":"2015-04-26T21:04:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T04:04:07","slug":"15-minutes-of-fame-for-feedspeak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/15-minutes-of-fame-for-feedspeak\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Minutes of Fame for FeedSpeak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I was stoked about <a href=\"http:\/\/feedspeak.tk\" target=\"_blank\">FeedSpeak<\/a> getting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/android\/cant-read-your-rss-listen-to-them-with-feedspeak\/\" target=\"_blank\">posted<\/a> on the front page of the xda-developers site! This was totally unexpected and definitely made my day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/feedspeak_pro_icon.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"316\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/15-minutes-of-fame-for-feedspeak\/feedspeak_pro_icon\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/feedspeak_pro_icon.png?fit=56%2C56&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"56,56\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"feedspeak_pro_icon\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/feedspeak_pro_icon.png?fit=56%2C56&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-316\" title=\"feedspeak_pro_icon\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/feedspeak_pro_icon.png?resize=56%2C56\" alt=\"\" width=\"56\" height=\"56\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, a friend had\u00a0recommended\u00a0that I advertise the app in the <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.xda-developers.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">xda-developers<\/a> forum, so I created a <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.xda-developers.com\/showthread.php?t=716769\" target=\"_blank\">simple post<\/a> for FeedSpeak <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appbrain.com\/app\/com.feedspeakpro\" target=\"_blank\">Pro<\/a>. After posting though, I learned that the forum isn&#8217;t really for paid apps &#8211; so I sat down and made FeedSpeak <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appbrain.com\/app\/com.feedspeakfree\" target=\"_blank\">Lite<\/a>, a free version of FeedSpeak Pro with some <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.xda-developers.com\/showpost.php?p=7114358&amp;postcount=6\" target=\"_blank\">features<\/a> disabled.\u00a0At first, I didn&#8217;t want to make\/support another version of my app. However, now I&#8217;m glad that I did &#8211;\u00a0having a free version\u00a0probably pleased more people, leading it to be posted on the front page!<\/p>\n<p>Just having that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/android\/cant-read-your-rss-listen-to-them-with-feedspeak\/\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> flow through the stream of news for such a popular site really helped jump start the number of downloads! It was really exciting (and totally unexpected) seeing FeedSpeak get a good review and great advertising on the xda-developers site!<\/p>\n<p>Sigh, time to wait for the backlash of random bug and\/or feature complaints to fix&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I was stoked about FeedSpeak getting posted on the front page of the xda-developers site! This was totally unexpected and definitely made my day. &nbsp; A few days ago, a friend had\u00a0recommended\u00a0that I advertise the app in the xda-developers forum, so I created a simple post for FeedSpeak Pro. After posting though, I learned &#8230; <a title=\"15 Minutes of Fame for FeedSpeak\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/15-minutes-of-fame-for-feedspeak\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 15 Minutes of Fame for FeedSpeak\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[123,174,101,130,234],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-android","tag-feedspeak","tag-programming","tag-rss","tag-xda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pZdXI-1K","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":885,"url":"https:\/\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/feedspeak-pro\/","url_meta":{"origin":108,"position":0},"title":"FeedSpeak Pro","author":"mcclanahoochie","date":"January 1, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"May 2010 FeedSpeak reads your\u00a0Google Reader RSS news feeds aloud to you using\u00a0Text-To-Speech. 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