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Re: OhLife is shutting down

#11

Post by korzun »

funkyy wrote: post #9

Seriously? Maintaining well written script is so hard? Why not putting this on one Linode instance or Amazon Cloud, pay $50 a month and keep free users by offering premium $1/mo package to some of them? But no, its easier to shut down. Less hassle, right?

All of what you mentioned takes time.

While it's 'trivial' and 'not hard', the time it self is priceless.

Re: OhLife is shutting down

#13

Post by billzhuang »

cbhl wrote: post #6

I think the one thing that disappoints me most is that there's no rich text / mass-photo export option here. Almost every post I made on OhLife has a photo attached. I started using OhLife after psobot wrote a clone for it. His clone is now unmaintained, but I do think he had the right idea.

Agree, it's easy to backup all even I can write some script to backup all, maybe they feel boring to write a rich text backup after decide shutdown it.

Re: OhLife is shutting down

#14

Post by funkyy »

korzun wrote: post #11
funkyy wrote: post #9

Seriously? Maintaining well written script is so hard? Why not putting this on one Linode instance or Amazon Cloud, pay $50 a month and keep free users by offering premium $1/mo package to some of them? But no, its easier to shut down. Less hassle, right?

All of what you mentioned takes time. While it's 'trivial' and 'not hard', the time it self is priceless.

Startup owners in exchange for creditability had to give time - thats one of the main currencies in this scene. In this case I wont trust them from now on expecting them to do the same with any other new startup they will launch in future...

Re: OhLife is shutting down

#16

Post by ascendantlogic »

funkyy wrote: post #9

Seriously? Maintaining well written script is so hard? Why not putting this on one Linode instance or Amazon Cloud, pay $50 a month and keep free users by offering premium $1/mo package to some of them? But no, its easier to shut down. Less hassle, right?

Without knowing the technology, costs, circumstances, etc, this is very naive to say. Don't armchair quarterback unless you understand all the circumstances.

Edit: And I got downvoted. I guess armchair quarterbacking is the right thing to do around these parts.

Re: OhLife is shutting down

#17

Post by nraynaud »

funkyy wrote: post #9

Seriously? Maintaining well written script is so hard? Why not putting this on one Linode instance or Amazon Cloud, pay $50 a month and keep free users by offering premium $1/mo package to some of them? But no, its easier to shut down. Less hassle, right?

you have a big legal problem, either you shut down and discharge all the assets (sold or destroyed), or you keep the company alive and then you have to have a talk to your investors.

Re: OhLife is shutting down

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Post by korzun »

funkyy wrote: post #14
korzun wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All of what you mentioned takes time. While it's 'trivial' and 'not hard', the time it self is priceless.

Startup owners in exchange for creditability had to give time - thats one of the main currencies in this scene. In this case I wont trust them from now on expecting them to do the same with any other new startup they will launch in future...

> Startup owners in exchange for creditability had to give time - thats one of the main currencies in this scene. In this case I wont trust them from now on expecting them to do the same with any other new startup they will launch in future...

Yeah, that's not how it works.

Committing time and money to a failed venture is the biggest mistake an entrepreneur can make.

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