by Mithrandir on 3/10/15, 3:26 AM with 41 comments
by bbgm on 3/10/15, 1:27 PM
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1. http://friendfeed.com/the-life-scientists
2. http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jou...
by nine_k on 3/10/15, 1:53 PM
Unfortunately, it had no monetization strategy. I suspect that if they had optional paid accounts by now (e.g. $3/mo), many people would pay just to keep the thing afloat and their community intact.
Unfortunately, there seem to be only two ways for an online service to last: to become paid by users commercially, or to become "paid" by users' labor of love when they install and maintain it. The later practically requires the service to open its source code.
by liotier on 3/10/15, 11:19 AM
by bootload on 3/10/15, 8:29 AM
[0] http://backchannel.org/blog/tornado
[1] https://friendfeed.com/friendfeed-news/9b8fbaed/technology-b...
by napolux on 3/10/15, 11:25 AM
by fmavituna on 3/10/15, 12:02 PM
Friendfeed was technically better medium than twitter in every single way at the time (maybe still) yet it died (don't mean that it failed). Another example of why making social startups is a huge risk.
by kalleboo on 3/10/15, 12:02 PM
by andrea_sdl on 3/10/15, 10:39 AM
or the idea behind https://posthaven.com/
I guess it's all about vision and how to delight your customers. All the people who believed in a product are people who trusted your words, and gave you access to a lot of their information. Yet it's so easy to let them down and shut down a service. It was for springpad, it now is for friend feed. Sometimes it's about the money sometimes it's about the users (I guess it's always about the money though).
But I can't help it, I prefer when you can trust a service,and I'd be willing to pay as long as I know that service will stay up even if I'm the only user.
by gourneau on 3/10/15, 8:19 AM
by wslh on 3/10/15, 3:11 PM
Google Reader had an option to export your data when they closed their web service.
by dksidana on 3/10/15, 1:59 PM
by wnevets on 3/11/15, 4:40 PM