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Founder of del.icio.us regrets selling to Yahoo

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Re: Founder of del.icio.us regrets selling to Yahoo

#11

Post by blasdel »

vaksel wrote: post #6

Why not go back to the drawing board and build a better version of delicious? Surely the non-compete has already expired. If he comes out with a new delicious like product, he'd get a ton of press because of the whole "he sold, and his product was ruined, now he is back where he left of, " angle. So he'll have his big popular website again and a ton of money in his pocket.

The always-brilliant Maciej already did that :)

  http://pinboard.in/
  http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=idlewords

Re: Founder of del.icio.us regrets selling to Yahoo

#12

Post by idlewords »

blasdel wrote: post #11
vaksel wrote: post #6

Why not go back to the drawing board and build a better version of delicious? Surely the non-compete has already expired. If he comes out with a new delicious like product, he'd get a ton of press because of the whole "he sold, and his product was ruined, now he is back where he left of, " angle. So he'll have his big popular website again and a ton of money in his pocket.

The always-brilliant Maciej already did that :) http://pinboard.in/ http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=idlewords

So far I have only reimplemented what Joshua had built a few years ago. If it weren't for the del.icio.us 2 redesign, I wouldn't have a market at all.

Re: Founder of del.icio.us regrets selling to Yahoo

#13

Post by YuriNiyazov »

joshu wrote: post #9
vaksel wrote: post #6

Why not go back to the drawing board and build a better version of delicious? Surely the non-compete has already expired. If he comes out with a new delicious like product, he'd get a ton of press because of the whole "he sold, and his product was ruined, now he is back where he left of, " angle. So he'll have his big popular website again and a ton of money in his pocket.

Because then I'd be The Bookmarks Guy. Eugh

Why not work for a YC company or some other small startup instead of Google?

Re: Founder of del.icio.us regrets selling to Yahoo

#14

Post by quizbiz »

joshu wrote: post #9
vaksel wrote: post #6

Why not go back to the drawing board and build a better version of delicious? Surely the non-compete has already expired. If he comes out with a new delicious like product, he'd get a ton of press because of the whole "he sold, and his product was ruined, now he is back where he left of, " angle. So he'll have his big popular website again and a ton of money in his pocket.

Because then I'd be The Bookmarks Guy. Eugh

If I knew how to make something exceptionally better, I would do it. Most would appreciate it. There is much to be left untapped and I'm sure there are more ways to push it beyond "bookmarks", as social voting has already done.

Re: Founder of del.icio.us regrets selling to Yahoo

#16

Post by lucumo »

joshu wrote: post #15

Please flag this thread. This is actually really rude, I think. It was part of another thread; leave it there.

On top of that, the lack of context and the formulation in the headline is making it sound like you regretted selling to Yahoo!, while the original post leads me to believe you actually regret selling. (You can correct me if I'm wrong, after all, you are the one that said it...)

This whole topic is in really bad taste :-/

Re: Founder of del.icio.us regrets selling to Yahoo

#17

Post by joshu »

lucumo wrote: post #16
joshu wrote: post #15

Please flag this thread. This is actually really rude, I think. It was part of another thread; leave it there.

On top of that, the lack of context and the formulation in the headline is making it sound like you regretted selling to Yahoo! , while the original post leads me to believe you actually regret selling . (You can correct me if I'm wrong, after all, you are the one that said it...) This whole topic is in really bad taste :-/

No, the formulation is relatively accurate. Would someone have done better? Probably not.

I emailed pg and asked for the thread to be nuked.

Re: Founder of del.icio.us regrets selling to Yahoo

#18

Post by herf »

joshu wrote: post #9
vaksel wrote: post #6

Why not go back to the drawing board and build a better version of delicious? Surely the non-compete has already expired. If he comes out with a new delicious like product, he'd get a ton of press because of the whole "he sold, and his product was ruined, now he is back where he left of, " angle. So he'll have his big popular website again and a ton of money in his pocket.

Because then I'd be The Bookmarks Guy. Eugh

I think about this every week. The Photos Guy?

Keep trying to do something new, but so much undone after Picasa.

And when you have a TON of stuff going into an acquisition that never sees the light of day, you kind of obsess about making it real, even 5 years later.

Re: Founder of del.icio.us regrets selling to Yahoo

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Post by greyman »

joshu wrote: post #9
vaksel wrote: post #6

Why not go back to the drawing board and build a better version of delicious? Surely the non-compete has already expired. If he comes out with a new delicious like product, he'd get a ton of press because of the whole "he sold, and his product was ruined, now he is back where he left of, " angle. So he'll have his big popular website again and a ton of money in his pocket.

Because then I'd be The Bookmarks Guy. Eugh

I had the same idea as vaksel. I am still a del.icio.us user, but the problem is, that Yahoo devs seems to not understand the product very deeply, since they did NOTHING to improve it, although a lot of work has been done. They just needlessly complicated the design and redirected the service to a boring domain name.

joshu I think there is still a room for you to to resume where you stopped and starting to truly innovate again. I would be your first user. ;o) Let's start with thinking of some good new quirky domain name. ;-))

Re: Founder of del.icio.us regrets selling to Yahoo

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Post by joshu »

herf wrote: post #18
joshu wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because then I'd be The Bookmarks Guy. Eugh

I think about this every week. The Photos Guy? Keep trying to do something new, but so much undone after Picasa. And when you have a TON of stuff going into an acquisition that never sees the light of day, you kind of obsess about making it real, even 5 years later.

At least you got things shipped, Mike.

2+ years of sitting on my ass was not fun.

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