Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?

I’ve been a heavy user of FoxPro [1] back in time. I would really love someone to make a better version of it.

Although these days you have Airtable [2] and Ninox [3] they are having different user base than good old FoxPro.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_FoxPro

2: https://airtable.com

3: https://ninoxdb.de/en/

Windows 7

I'd resurrect Headway Theme for Wordpress. It was kinda open source but had some proprietary bits in I think. And there is a fork somewhere apparently. But the software is effectively dead and not getting updated any more.

But that theme builder was absolutely amazing. Literally just drag and drop design for the entire theme, not just pages or whatever. Plus control over the loop and just some awesome stuff that really let you build very very cool sites really really quickly.

Elementor Pro now does some of what Headway was doing and I think Beaver Builder is moving that way, but they aren't really anywhere close to as good. Headway had graphical theme design absolutely nailed.

It's a big shame it went under and I wish it came back.

Google reader

Strikes me that you meant this as a joke - but whether you did or not, it is not such a bad call.