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Re: OhLife is shutting down

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Post by adi92 »

:( Been using this service for 4 years.. have grown so much thanks to it. Everybody seems to be recommending Day One as an alternative, but that looks way more complicated than a simple daily email.

Edit: I take that back.. day one looks pretty awesome Found https://twitter.com/kylesethgray/status/513476424955482112 which let me import all my OhLife data into this.. and this is backed by my DropBox account which makes me feel safe about my data

Re: OhLife is shutting down

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Post by dabent »

I have 1161 entries dating back to my first on August 18, 2010. I really love the service, but understand if they have to shut it down.

Thanks to the founders for keeping such an easy-to-use service around for so long. I'm off to find an alternative. My list of features isn't long. A daily email with a reminder and a previous post from the last year, month or week. It's that simplicity that kept me using the service.

Re: OhLife is shutting down

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Post by g8gggu89 »

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...

Did anyone check into them this time before trusting them initially?

Re: OhLife is shutting down

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Post by funkyy »

korzun wrote: post #20
funkyy wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I forgot Rockstars dont have time for BS that dosent make them millions.

I wonder when majority of people will dislike Startup folks like they did dislike Stock Brokers thanks to thinking like yours.

Greed is good. Right?

Honour is just a myth?

Re: OhLife is shutting down

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Post by kovacs »

A few months ago I built something for myself that started from the same idea of simple journaling/reminders but I chose SMS instead of email.

http://carmela.io

It's basically a 2 way SMS reminder system that allows for flexible and simple scheduling. I've been using it for months to SMS myself and record thoughts throughout the day. At the start of each day I get a link to my recent summary which gives me performance metrics along with past content (see screenshot)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hhpzt3g77ujy1go/Screenshot%202014-...

I haven't really focused on how to make a business out of this and OhLife shutting down is another data point around whether or not this type of service can be monetized effectively. For me email would never work to get me to do this kind of activity. SMS does work because it's invasive enough, on a clearer channel than email, and even simpler to respond. (even though my response rate over the last week is as low as it's ever been :-)

Comments and thoughts welcome as to whether or not people would be into something like this. I've actually been working on another idea that uses this app as a foundation but I (along with a few others) do use it everyday for journaling.

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