What's a product that you wish you could bring back from the startup grave?

Aaron O'Leary
63 replies
For me it would have to be the Anki robot! Loved that little thing!

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Daniel
Whale šŸ³ - entrepreneur/business video Q&A. I was on there 24/7, I was so sad to see if shutdown. Please bring it back @justinkan šŸ˜­
Pouya Lo
It may not be listed in there, but it definitely is Yahoo 360. That was great in many ways back in the time.
Pouya Lo
@aaronoleary šŸ˜‚ that means I'm getting old šŸ˜…
Jas BG
honestly...foursquare :D
Michael Silber
Google Reader, but social media has completely broken my ability to curate for myself and get thoughtful notes from friends outside of email.
Irete Hamdani
Google Search from the late 90s before all the ads and SEO manipulations!
Irete Hamdani
@chrismessina I just found out about them now! :) From a customer experience point of view I think the landing page should go to: https://neeva.com/features or directly to the extension: https://chrome.google.com/websto... Sending a potential user (like me) to a page that has me picking a price plan when I'm not even sure what the product is doesn't seem to me the right route to conversion but hey, you have 20,000+ users, so you must be doing it right :)
Neil
@chrismessina What do you like about Neeva compared to Google, Chris (other than the privacy angle)?
Dan Wigrizer
@chrismessina @ireteh Their landing page enables you to try a search: https://neeva.com/. The link Chris provided was direct to the signup page.
James Augeri
@ireteh we're working on exactly that at Breeze, https://breezethat.com :) plus fully private search, web alerts, & topic filters, e.g., we also run the world's largest remote job board, https://breezethat.com/x/job-sea...
Chris Klein
@mikestaub A small part of me died when Path finally shut down. Had the app after it was pulled and access it up to the day before they killed the serversā€¦ Truly wonder if the world wouldā€™ve been in a different place had that app taken off and mass-scale, algorithm-dependent social media hadnā€™t become the only optionā€¦
Patrick Sullivan
there was a great email app called "Mailbox" that I think dropbox bought and then shut down. I'd brig that back.
Eithiriel DeMerƩ
I would love if I could get http://www.seehearparty.com to work! šŸŽ¶ So much nostalgia. ā™„ļø cc @rrhoover
Tedel
StumbleUpon and Project Wonderful.
deepu
Inbox by Google
Aaron O'Leary
@pradeeb28 YES, have you found any good alternative since?
Grey G. Seymour
@aaronoleary itā€™s not the same by any means but Iā€™ve fallen head over heels for Superhuman, with Twobird being a close second by virtue of their sterling markdown support and prioritization functionality. Keep an eye on SkiffMail as well; long way to go but a very promising start. For the most immediately analogous product Iā€™d also say OnMail deserves your attention. SkiffMail I have an eye on, Superhumanā€™s my daily driver, TwoBird is what I recommend for any Android-centric people, OnMail is usually my go to as a recommendation for people wanting an Inbox replacement/need out of the box custom domain support. (Also good for agencies or anyone regularly sending massive attachments, where whitelabeling is a plus.)
Vimal Venu
@google had a product, which lets you make small DIY IOT toys which can be connected to events(Like a small diy umbrella which opens when there is a chance for rain) . It was then called actions on google, now I cant find anything even related to this, no links, nothing. -It was then released on product hunt.
Grey G. Seymour
@vimal_gopal1 Building consumer IoT is a tricky game - the rise of Shenzhen maker culture and 3D printing have made rapid prototyping far easier, but many IOT projects run into trouble when itā€™s time to produce the hardware at scale and code for the firmware. I took point on launching Hewlett Packardā€™s first true smartwatch, the MB Chronowing - only way we were able to do it was thanks to HP (and frankly, HPE) having a massively complex and scale friendly supply chain / vendor relationships. You should totally do it - not trying to discourage you in the slightest.
Vimal Venu
@graham_seymour Well I will probably do this just to scratch the itch and just build few quantities..I am pretty sure I cant make money out of it. :)
Wylie Conlon
Rdio was a more social music player, I was a big fan of how it helped me discover music through friends. Spotify and Apple Music still haven't caught up to that.
Ryan Duffy
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