Flock is dead • Hacker News Board

Re: Flock is dead

#21

Post by brackin » Tue, Apr 12, 2011, 10:53 PM UTC

Flock had deeper integration and less uselessness than rockmelt in my opinion.

Re: Flock is dead

#22

Post by cageface » Tue, Apr 12, 2011, 11:00 PM UTC

Sorry to hear this, but I think that the customized browser is basically DOA. It's hard enough to get people to update their main browser as it is. Better to build whatever you have in mind within a conventional browser.

Re: Flock is dead

#23

Post by Uhhrrr » Tue, Apr 12, 2011, 11:14 PM UTC

ryanglasgow wrote: post #8

Hipchan wrote: post #5

Good news or bad news for RockMelt?

Bad. It proves RockMelt doesn't solve a pain-point.

Well, it proves Flock _didn't_ solve a pain-point. I still would like a tool that manages all my social crap nicely.

Re: Flock is dead

#24

Post by spitfire » Tue, Apr 12, 2011, 11:32 PM UTC

cageface wrote: post #22

Sorry to hear this, but I think that the customized browser is basically DOA. It's hard enough to get people to update their main browser as it is. Better to build whatever you have in mind within a conventional browser.

As an end user technology it was always DOA except in very nerdy niche's. As a delivery technology I think we'll see it around for a long time to come. Users clamour for "native" apps, this is a cheap (fake) way to give it to them.

Re: Flock is dead

#25

Post by younata » Tue, Apr 12, 2011, 11:40 PM UTC

cageface wrote: post #22

Sorry to hear this, but I think that the customized browser is basically DOA. It's hard enough to get people to update their main browser as it is. Better to build whatever you have in mind within a conventional browser.

A few years ago, I managed to inherit some laptops that were being thrown out by the company my father was working for at the time.

One of them, apparently, used to be used by the CEO, and had Flock installed on it. This was my first introduction to the browser.

Re: Flock is dead

#26

Post by vonsydov » Tue, Apr 12, 2011, 11:57 PM UTC

Working on the mozilla source code....worst decision ever. They made chrome from scratch and its already got large number of users without any special feature.

Re: Flock is dead

#27

Post by betterlabs » Tue, Apr 12, 2011, 11:59 PM UTC

Sad but I am not surprised. Its incremental value was always questionable and I never understood why they thought they could build a successful browser based on niche features that only a tiny segment of the online population would want. It would be interesting to see what happens to RockMelt.

Re: Flock is dead

#28

Post by pmiller2 » Wed, Apr 13, 2011, 12:10 AM UTC

vonsydov wrote: post #26

Working on the mozilla source code....worst decision ever. They made chrome from scratch and its already got large number of users without any special feature.

Sure, but that was Google. If some random, unknown company made a browser just as good as Chrome, it wouldn't have gotten a tenth the users Chrome has now.

Re: Flock is dead

#29

Post by brianbreslin » Wed, Apr 13, 2011, 12:11 AM UTC

pmiller2 wrote: post #28

vonsydov wrote: post #26

Working on the mozilla source code....worst decision ever. They made chrome from scratch and its already got large number of users without any special feature.

Sure, but that was Google. If some random, unknown company made a browser just as good as Chrome, it wouldn't have gotten a tenth the users Chrome has now.

yeah exactly. see: opera.

Re: Flock is dead

#30

Post by brianbreslin » Wed, Apr 13, 2011, 12:13 AM UTC

gordonguthrie wrote: post #14

ryanglasgow wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bad. It proves RockMelt doesn't solve a pain-point.

I like RockMelt - I tried Flock but it did nothing for me... Does RockMelt have a business model? dunno. But RockMelt solves the pain of twitter/facebook/linkedin fire hoses (for me)

well if its got a deal with google similar to mozilla's it can make a good chunk of change with commissions on searches. mozilla generates well over $100M/year from google deal.