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

Because there is no such calendar app

Simple and good free features.

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

Good old todolist.

Beautiful & clean. The swipe gestures were so good!

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"

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.

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

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.

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

Didn't make sense. It was massively popular.

Awesome concept, wildly creative contributors.

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

Crazy how it just went

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.

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

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...

Loved the e-paper implementation in a watch.

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.

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

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.

So user friendly and just FUN.

This was a really good music discovery website.

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.

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

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.

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.

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...

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.

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

https://medium.com/@AndreyAzimov... He already wrote about it :)

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