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Catch.com: Terminating service next month

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Re: Catch.com: Terminating service next month

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Yet another example as to why having "millions of users" does not mean success... But what does that say bout hte business leaders? Serious Question: How is it that seemingly many 'businesses' can be started to scale to "millions" -- yet fail in finding ANY way to cover OpEx?

Yes, this makes me humbly proud of my achievements: few customers, profitable can can continue to invest in R&D beyond the operational aspects of the business.

Re: Catch.com: Terminating service next month

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

from this URL that is still live, I gather it is kind of like Evernote: https://catch.com/learn-more/why/

Good find, it looks like you're right, essentially another collaborative to-do app (note, visit the link yourself, I am grossly oversimplifying) I really wonder why they are shutting down. This kind of service doesn't seem like it would take a lot to run, and even less so if they didn't have enough users

I think they tried starting a company, not a charity.

For something that _costs_ money of each user, every user is a user too many. You need customers, and I don't think they had any (the service seems to have been free)

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