Ask HN: Which great products didn't succeed? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Which great products didn't succeed?

#81

Post by colinng » Sun, Apr 07, 2019, 12:50 AM UTC

Aeroscope. Probably the nicest portable oscilloscope I've seen. It fizzled away, and until CrowdSupply found a few units, I couldn't even buy a spare for just in case.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/aeroscope-labs/aeroscope-wireles...

Re: Ask HN: Which great products didn't succeed?

#82

Post by ilaksh » Sun, Apr 07, 2019, 12:50 AM UTC

Betamax

Re: Ask HN: Which great products didn't succeed?

#83

Post by Ftuuky » Sun, Apr 07, 2019, 12:52 AM UTC

Stumbleupon

Tastekid

Re: Ask HN: Which great products didn't succeed?

#84

Post by ilaksh » Sun, Apr 07, 2019, 12:53 AM UTC

Light Table

Re: Ask HN: Which great products didn't succeed?

#85

Post by ilaksh » Sun, Apr 07, 2019, 12:55 AM UTC

sien wrote: post #17

The Amiga.

I feel like just because a product fails to dominate the planet doesn't mean it didn't succeed.

Amiga achieved quite a lot in terms of engineering for it's time.

Re: Ask HN: Which great products didn't succeed?

#86

Post by dasyatidprime » Sun, Apr 07, 2019, 12:56 AM UTC

kebert wrote: post #59

gnuarch wrote: post #20

Usenet, IRC, RSS, XMPP, ... Well, still rockin'

Really enjoying TheLounge for IRC lately. FreshRSS as well. Any recommendations for self hosted XMPP stuff?

I still run a pretty basic ejabberd on Fedora. I've heard better things about Prosody, nowadays. (A while back I didn't transition to it due to some incompleteness in IPv6 support, but I'm told that that has since been fixed.)

Re: Ask HN: Which great products didn't succeed?

#87

Post by chrisco255 » Sun, Apr 07, 2019, 12:56 AM UTC

colechristensen wrote: post #79

Switch light bulbs. Beautiful design, great natural light color, engineered to dissipate heat very well (and thus last a long time), they got on the cover of Wired. However they overdid the packaging and had a hard times convincing people to buy $60 light bulbs and only sold in strange stores.

Do you mean these: https://www.homedepot.com/b/Lighting-Light-Bulbs-LED-Bulbs/S... ?

Re: Ask HN: Which great products didn't succeed?

#88

Post by codeadict » Sun, Apr 07, 2019, 12:59 AM UTC

Riak

Re: Ask HN: Which great products didn't succeed?

#89

Post by jonas21 » Sun, Apr 07, 2019, 12:59 AM UTC

mephitix wrote: post #24

Google Inbox. And I don’t “find my favorite Inbox features in Gmail”. If you can’t tell I’m still bitter about it :(

Just curious, which features are you bitter about?

I was a long-time Inbox user and was dreading the day I'd have to switch back to Gmail. But now that I've done it, I've found that I don't really miss Inbox at all.

Re: Ask HN: Which great products didn't succeed?

#90

Post by hn_throwaway_99 » Sun, Apr 07, 2019, 1:01 AM UTC

pdeva1 wrote: post #77

dotCloud and a lot of other PAAS platforms. Its ironic since with Docker + Kubernetes, folks essentially are recreating their own PAAS from scratch, but wouldn't use a prebuilt one...

But there are other PAAS that are great and successful, e.g. Firebase