HQ Trivia shuts down after acquisition falls through
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HQ Trivia shuts down after acquisition falls through
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Re: HQ Trivia shuts down after acquisition falls through
#2What a quick ride. It was so popular, so quickly. There must not have been great retention? Or poor monetization?
Re: HQ Trivia shuts down after acquisition falls through
#3What a quick ride. It was so popular, so quickly. There must not have been great retention? Or poor monetization?
One of the founders overdosed, they switched hosts, and overall seem to have done everything in their power to tank themselves.
Re: HQ Trivia shuts down after acquisition falls through
#4HQ Trivia was great at first but it got boring fast, especially when they replaced host Scott Rogowsky and did the show multiple times a day instead of every few days which created more hype. The sudden death of cofounder Colin Kroll was also a bizarre event to add to the mix.
Re: HQ Trivia shuts down after acquisition falls through
#5This should be surprising to precisely no one. And this is nothing against HQ Trivia (although the founder seemed like a tool [1]) but any sort of format has a shelf life. Long-lasting shows like Jeopardy are outliers. The more typical case is where a given show will play for a few years, people will get bored with it and it'll be replaced by something else.
That's really all that happened here. HQ Trivia had a novelty value that eventually went away. Losing Scott probably didn't help. Just like Alex Trebek is probably a big part of the reason for Jeopardy's longevity, I think Scott was a big part of the reason for HQ Trivia's popularity.
[1]: https://theoutline.com/post/2517/is-hq-trivia-holding-its-ho...
Re: HQ Trivia shuts down after acquisition falls through
#6It almost sounds like a Game of Thrones esque style episode of Silicon Valley.
Huge success. Co-founder dies. There was a mutiny to remove the CEO from it's employees Layoffs and now shutdown.
This happened all within about a year? (Cofounder passed in December 2018)
Re: HQ Trivia shuts down after acquisition falls through
#7What a quick ride. It was so popular, so quickly. There must not have been great retention? Or poor monetization?
One of the founders overdosed, they switched hosts, and overall seem to have done everything in their power to tank themselves.
Do....do you think they murdered Colin Kroll?
Re: HQ Trivia shuts down after acquisition falls through
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
One of the founders overdosed, they switched hosts, and overall seem to have done everything in their power to tank themselves.
Do....do you think they murdered Colin Kroll?
No? I don't think the comment implied that; I separated the two between an "and" for a reason. I was just stating that that was when things seemed to start going down for them.
Re: HQ Trivia shuts down after acquisition falls through
#9I'm sure death among heroin addicts is common. It's only a matter of time they'll come in contact with a fentanyl laced dose.
Re: HQ Trivia shuts down after acquisition falls through
#10Any write-up on their tech stack? I imagine it's not an easy problem at the height of their popularity to scale so many live video feeds with real-time interactions.