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Etacts (YC W10) Shutting Down

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Re: Etacts (YC W10) Shutting Down

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post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

"... and hope one of the other companies can build something similar in..." Well, EmailOracle is very similar and it is closing too, exactly on Jan 31, 2011

Re: Etacts (YC W10) Shutting Down

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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.

I found their reminders effective because they were so spot on, people I really did need to contact.

Re: Etacts (YC W10) Shutting Down

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That's deeply unfortunate. I loved you guys on demo day.

Based on my choices, apparently I shouldn't try more angel investment. I was an investor in NewsLabs. This would have been another "yeah, let's invest" choice if they were interested (they weren't). I think I may have picked the two first to close up shop.

Re: Etacts (YC W10) Shutting Down

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post #27

Same goes for Email Oracle: https://emailoracle.com/ Edit: yes, they were both made by the same team...

https://etacts.com/ & https://emailoracle.com/ carry same message, word to word. Guess they both were run by the same people.

I think you're correct. The privacy policy link on emailoracle.com points to the etacts privacy policy.

Re: Etacts (YC W10) Shutting Down

#30

Is there any alternative?

Been following these guys for a while since they were in an adjacent space to us. Sad to see them go.

We're officially releasing this post-holiday madness: http://hobsonfiles.com/signup

It's a contact/task manager/collab tool which is useful in reminding you to follow-up with contacts but we solve the problem differently.

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