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I miss DabbleDB greatly. I once made a real meals-and-visits schedule signup sheet app for a sick relative (dozens of folks signing up for slots over days, etc.) in about 20 minutes, including learning a bunch about the tool. Ultimately it "just" made CRUD apps, but it made the process amazingly fast. The equivalent of updating a Django model and view was usually a click or two with no waiting, and the only typing wa…
Psion[0] - in particular the Series 3c[1] [0] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/26/psion_special/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_3
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It ticks me off to this day. I can’t imagine it being terribly difficult to maintain, particularly with Google’s limitless resources. They burned so much good will with their developer base just to save a few bucks.
It would have been amazing if instead of having Google Plus be an entirely separate thing, they had added Google Plus's sharing and discussion features onto Google Reader and grown from that as a base. Something like that could very well still be a thriving product today.
Google Reader. Now I have a mix of HN, Reddit and GMail, and none of them work really how I like.