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Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

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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…

Airtable?

Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

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Sunrise calendar app. I’m a naturally unorganized person, and sunrise was honestly the only calendar/task tracker that has ever kept me organized. I loved it and really used it, but it was bought by Microsoft and shutdown. They integrated some parts into outlook, but outlook is used for work and I don’t like to get my work schedule and personal schedule mixed up. Sunrise just worked and I really haven’t found somethi…

What was so special about that app?

I've checked info at wiki and it seems like it was just calendar with daily schedule - birthdays, meetings etc. Nothing extraordinary. The same functionality you should have nowadays in every calendar app - Google, Microsoft etc.

Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

#464
Sony Walkman music players with long battery life and without massive screens [1]. Particularly the stick style with a built in male USB connector.

I still use one every day, but it's starting to show its age and I know that one day something will give. The battery life has slowly degraded and the buttons are a little more wobbly than they used to be.

The beauty of them was that they consume little power, are very simple to use, are very rugged and are exceptionally reliable. It did one job and it did it well.

[1] https://www.sony.com/electronics/walkman-digital-music-playe...

Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

#465

Haagen-Dazs black cherry amaretto gelato

Friendly's Forbidden Chocolate

Friendly's Maple Walnut

real chocolate chips (irregular broken fragments) in Breyer's Mint Chocolate Chip

generally, ice cream without emulsifiers and thickeners

Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

#468
Oh, man.

Polaroid SX film

Nikon CoolScan 9000 scanners

Clorets gum

Fruitips popsicles

Panago's "Mediterranean" wings

GE Bright Stik tubes

Moves app

Pebble Time

Glitch (@stewart's game between Flickr and Slack)

Dropbox Packrat addon

Winamp

ICQ

Infiltration zine

Shift magazine

I didn't even have to put effort into this list; it's way longer in reality. However, making it made me sad and frustrated.

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