What company/product were you most sad/surprised when it shut down?
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!
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- Thibaut BayartChief Curiosity Officer · WrittenBecause there is no such calendar app
- Really straightforward to do apps. No bluff, No fancy features, just perfect To Do apps
- Beautiful & clean. The swipe gestures were so good!Nick LekuonaChief Reader at Nimbooks. · WrittenThe 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"
- This caused the fabulous concept of feeds user can control/choose to be, very sadly, almost dead.Ravi MevchaProduct Manager and Startup Guy · WrittenGoogle 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.
- ... really didn't enjoy having to rebuild that entire backend from scratch, for BookupApp.com
- Neil McBeanCEO, Designer, Product Lead · WrittenRdio 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.
- Nick LekuonaChief Reader at Nimbooks. · WrittenGot 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...
- 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.
- 6PipesTim DineenCo-Founder, Recruitics · WrittenPipes 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.
- 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.Moak DesignsInternet Marketing Manager · WrittenIt was perfect for sharing within my team. Kinda found Toby as slight replacement but not as social as Kifi was.
- 4TopsyKuba RogalskiContent Writer at LiveChat · WrittenThis 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.
- Nick LekuonaChief Reader at Nimbooks. · WrittenReally 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...IvanisawesomeDesigner. · WrittenThis 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.
- 3The Social RadioIt was fun listening tweets while working with my music in the background.
- Deniz VatanDeveloper, sailor, dart player, diver .. · Editedhttps://medium.com/@AndreyAzimov... He already wrote about it :)
- Maaria BajwaInvestor, Sound Ventures · WrittenBecause now it takes me a month and a kidney to get a reservation at Bestia on a Friday night
- 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.