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Etacts (YC W10) Shutting Down

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Re: Etacts (YC W10) Shutting Down

#11
post #4

Didn't they raise a strong seed round in the past few months?

$650k according to CrunchBase on 5/14/2010 http://www.crunchbase.com/company/etacts

Depending on what they spent money on since then they could be reaching the next point of fundraising again and decided it wasn't the right thing to go do.

Re: Etacts (YC W10) Shutting Down

#15
post #3

I signed up for this service but didn't really use it. I really like the concept. It wanted to remind you when you hadn't been in contact with friends in a while. Good luck to these guys. Does any of the Etacts guys (or anyone else) know why they didn't target Facebook?

Hard to not see the implicit, inherent irony that they couldn't determine an effective way to remind you to use the service.

Re: Etacts (YC W10) Shutting Down

#17
post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've used both Gist.com and Rapportive.com...

To my knowledge, neither has a "days since contact" feature.

Agreed --- going to miss etacts, and hope one of the other companies can build something similar in. I need something that will automatically remind me to contact people within the network.

Re: Etacts (YC W10) Shutting Down

#18
In my opinion, the problem with reminder services is that I have to remember to use them.

They can ping me all day via email, twitter, facebook, SMS, whatever, but it takes only 1 or 2 pings before my subconscious trains itself to ignore the reminders.

Also, a reminder is hit and miss. If I don't have time to take action on the reminder, it fails.

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