What company/product were you most sad/surprised when it shut down?

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I'm curious what products/companies were out there that couldn't stay in business. If you know why they shut down, please let me know!

Thibaut Bayart · Accepted Answer

Because there is no such calendar app

Rich Smith · Answer

Didn't make sense. It was massively popular.

Niklaus Gerber · Answer

Crazy how it just went

Grant Patten · Answer

... really didn't enjoy having to rebuild that entire backend from scratch, for BookupApp.com

Olivier · Answer

Because I coded an app with parse.com for months and facebook acquired this company to shut it down.
I could go on thanks to sashido.io which developed a wonderful app based on open source parse server.

Maaria Bajwa · Answer

Because now it takes me a month and a kidney to get a reservation at Bestia on a Friday night

Jakub Rogalski · Answer

This is not something I had been personally sad about but I remember so many people being sad about Topsy being shut down. I think the reason why it happened was that they were acquired by Apple, but I don't know what happened to them after that.

Ben Clark · Answer

I really thought vid.me would take over Youtube.
Whoops.

Shiv · Answer

Beautiful & clean. The swipe gestures were so good!

Twidi · Answer

This caused the fabulous concept of feeds user can control/choose  to be, very sadly, almost dead.

Nick Lekuona · Answer

Got three Pebbles myself and supported them on Kickstarter twice, once with the original, then again with the Time. Still think they are the people who got the smartwatch thing right; low power consumption, small apps which complemented the smartphone, thriving developer community, the works. Broke my heart when they were forced to sell; wearable development went back 5 years with their demise...

Alex Perco · Answer

It was fun listening tweets while working with my music in the background.

Zach Krasner · Answer

Was the best for package delivery, can't live without it!

Rob Tìgeir · Answer

This was the first and best organiser of my head and things. 4 years later I have still not found a product that organises things as nicely it did.

Tynamite · Answer

This was a really good music discovery website.

William Krause · Answer

Still haven't found a news reader quite as smart as Prismatic.

mom of amazing kids · Answer

So user friendly and just FUN.

Ganesh App · Answer

Back when it launched, I used wave extensively, not just for communicating, but also as my note-taking app. It was as versatile as Evernote, slack etc.

M2 · Answer

The best collaborative bookmarking tool! You could make collections, with searchable tags, that were either public or private. It was great for curating content from around the web that your whole team could work with. RIP Kifi. RIP Google Spaces.

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Rdio was the best. I was lost when they shut down. Still haven't found a replacement. Play Music is pretty good, but Rdio was fantastic.

Hussain · Answer

Loved the e-paper implementation in a watch.

Deniz Vatan · Answer

https://medium.com/@AndreyAzimov/upvotes-are-not-sales-lesson-learned-from-launching-physical-product-830a292b04fa?ref=producthunt

He already wrote about it :)

Andrew Urbański · Answer

Good old todolist.

Yoga Sukma 🚀 · Answer

Really straightforward to do apps. No bluff, No fancy features, just perfect To Do apps

SeyedMostafaMeshkati · Answer

Simple and good free features.

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Awesome concept, wildly creative contributors.

marian jacob · Answer

IT was once big!

Stowe Boyd · Answer

Dopplr was a great 'ships passing in the night' product so you could find out what friends were in town.

Adam John Lea · Answer

Sparrow was the first (only?) Mac mail client that I loved. Once Google bought them I knew they would kill it. They did. I am still sad :(

Jeroen Corthout ☕ · Answer

Still using it for family to do list. Its simplicity rocks.

Ravi Mevcha · Answer

Google Reader was the best product for my daily reading list, instead of visiting each website you get everything at one place. Feedly is good alternative, using it since Google Reader shutdown.

Moak Designs · Answer

It was perfect for sharing within my team. Kinda found Toby as slight replacement but not as social as Kifi was.

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I always wanted to play Paragon from epic games, unfortunately they announced the closure before I found time

Giulio Michelon · Answer

I still miss it a lot. It had a wonderful UI.

Usman · Answer

It was the only news aggregate app I used to read articles and it was really convenient.

Ian Gray · Answer

I loved the simplicity and elegance of this. Others have come along but they are too focused on some things although I really like QWILR which works really well and people should take notice!

Ian Gray · Answer

I loved the simplicity and elegance of this. Others have come along but they are too focused on some things although I really like QWILR which works really well and people should take notice!

Greg Weisbrod · Answer

It's still around but is de facto dead. Back in the day it was the absolute best for music recommendations, and I still think it did a better job than current services.

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The only email client that really seemed to separate the signal from the noise.  It was also one of the first product launches I remember having a waiting list.  Today it's common place, but it was somewhat paradigmatic at the time.

Nick Lekuona · Answer

Really elegant reading app, showed a lot of promise. I was puzzled when Dropbox bought them and closed the project down; even tried to buy it so I could repurpose the app for my own project, but was advised by the ex-CEO to not bother as Dropbox wouldn't even want to discuss it...

Ivanisawesome · Answer

This had it all; stunning, crisp UI design; so-easy-your-mom-could-use-it ebook syncing features combined with a user community that was engaging but wasn't forced on you if you didn't want.

I was gutted when the team was absorbed by Dropbox and the product shut down 4 years ago. I still miss it.

Nick Lekuona · Answer

The app which set the bar at the time. Clean and minimal, was a joy to use. Most of its groundbreaking features are in use now by any modern email client app, but still none compares in "cleanliness"

Kat Manalac · Answer

It was high quality, reasonably healthy, affordable food on demand. There still isn't a perfect replacement.

Tim Dineen · Answer

Pipes was an amazing and super extensible way to parse, filter and then merge multiples streams of data into one. It also had a pretty cool interface. Mostly for tech use, it was a UI to open platforms! RIP Yahoo Tech.

Stowe Boyd · Answer

Great tool to share files and related information for projects or communities. It was acqui-hired by Facebook in 2010.

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Simple, clean, functional, and elegant. (It's about the original cir.ca)

satheesh · Answer

Zite is a beautiful news reader app. Acquired by flipboard.

Bob Specht · Answer

The summer of Turntable holds some great memories – still haven't seen synchronous music really work yet.

Steven J. Selcuk · Answer

Interesting...

Suraj Dubey · Answer

I still use this app on Android, iPad and web. Works beautifully across everywhere. Didn't notice it is being shut down. I know Microsoft has come up with its own todo and that's just terrible.

Deep Dave · Answer

It was a great app to watch daily curated videos!

Aaron Rau · Answer

Loved the auto layout of pictures from places I visited. Made it really easy to lookcup, "Where was that place we had drinks a couple of weeks ago?"