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Re: Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

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Post by tomComb »

bxparks wrote: post #37

A lot of things on https://killedbygoogle.com/ . I used to use 30-40 Google products and services. I'm down to 3-4. Google Picasa: Everything local, so fast, so good. I'm never going to give my photos to G Photos. Google Hangouts: Can't keep track of all the Google chat apps. I use Signal now. Google G Suite Legacy: It was supposed to be free forever. They killed it, tried to make me pay. I migrated out of Google. Go…

I’m still using - free g suite - play music - finance - nfc wallet is just google wallet isn’t it? - chromecast, video and audio-only I guess play music is now YouTube music, and doesn't have uploads, so that can be considered dead, but the others seem alive to me.

Re: Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

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Post by robertakarobin »

daxfohl wrote: post #45

Heroku? I know it's still around, though IDK who uses it, but I miss those days when it was thriving. One language, one deployment platform, one database, a couple plugins to choose from, everything simple and straightforward, no decision fatigue. I often wonder, if AI had come 15 years earlier, would it have been a ton better because there weren't a billion different ways to do things? Would we have ever bothered to…

My company still uses Heroku in production actually. Every time I see the Salesforce logo show up I wince, but we haven't had any issues at all. It continues to make deployment very easy.

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Post by nja »

bxparks wrote: post #37

A lot of things on https://killedbygoogle.com/ . I used to use 30-40 Google products and services. I'm down to 3-4. Google Picasa: Everything local, so fast, so good. I'm never going to give my photos to G Photos. Google Hangouts: Can't keep track of all the Google chat apps. I use Signal now. Google G Suite Legacy: It was supposed to be free forever. They killed it, tried to make me pay. I migrated out of Google. Go…

Chromecast Audio still works! They just don't sell them anymore. I use mine every day, and have been keeping an eye out for anyone selling theirs...

Re: Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

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Post by zdragnar »

rhodey wrote: post #40

choojs All of the upside and none of the downside of react No JSX and no compiler, all native js The main dev is paid by microsoft to do oss rust nowadays I use choo for my personal projects and have used it twice professionally https://github.com/choojs/choo#example The example is like 25 lines and introduces all the concepts Less moving parts than svelte

You can get the same thing with lit-html and any of the add on libraries that flesh it out.

For example, Haunted is a react hooks implementation for lit: https://github.com/matthewp/haunted

Choo suffered from not having an ecosystem, same with mithtil and other "like react but not" also-rans.

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Post by ggm »

X.400 we're approaching it by stepwise refinement. It had X.500 which lives on as X.509 certificates and LDAP.

ISO/OSI had session layer. ie much of what QUIC does regarding underlying multiple transports.

Speaking of X.509 the s-expressions certificate format was more interesting in many ways.

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Post by samrolken »

daxfohl wrote: post #45

Heroku? I know it's still around, though IDK who uses it, but I miss those days when it was thriving. One language, one deployment platform, one database, a couple plugins to choose from, everything simple and straightforward, no decision fatigue. I often wonder, if AI had come 15 years earlier, would it have been a ton better because there weren't a billion different ways to do things? Would we have ever bothered to…

As soon as they put a persistent Salesforce brand banner across the top which did nothing but waste space and put that ugly logo in our face every day, my team started our transition off Heroku pretty much right away.

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Post by iambateman »

cr125rider wrote: post #8

Macromedia Flash. Its scope and security profile was too big. It gave way to HTML’s canvas. But man, the tooling is still no where near as good. Movieclips, my beloved. I loved it all.

I agree that the tooling was unbelievable…better for interactive web than anything that exists today AFAIK.

I wonder why one one has managed to build something comparable that does work on a phone.

Re: Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

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Post by BirAdam »

Google Wave.

Edit: you asked why. I first saw it at SELF where Chris DiBona showed it to me and a close friend. It was awesome. Real time translation, integration of various types of messaging, tons of cool capabilities, and it was fully open source. What made it out of Google was a stripped down version of what I was shown, the market rejected it, and it was a sad day. Now, I am left with JIRA, Slack, and email. It sucks.

Re: Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

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Post by daxfohl »

bxparks wrote: post #37

A lot of things on https://killedbygoogle.com/ . I used to use 30-40 Google products and services. I'm down to 3-4. Google Picasa: Everything local, so fast, so good. I'm never going to give my photos to G Photos. Google Hangouts: Can't keep track of all the Google chat apps. I use Signal now. Google G Suite Legacy: It was supposed to be free forever. They killed it, tried to make me pay. I migrated out of Google. Go…

Google Search: Not officially dead yet, but....
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