https://ohlife.com/export DOES NOT WORK! How do we export our entries!!
They just added a better export option, but another tool is at https://ohlife-export.herokuapp.com/
OhLife is shutting down
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Re: OhLife is shutting down
#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
A couple of months at least. It could take more than a couple of weeks for many users to realize the service is shutting down (skip past the email in their inbox, etc.) Even if a user receives notification with the full two weeks notice, they could be on vacation and unable to download the files. They could figure "Oh, I'll make a note to download my stuff when I get home from work" then forget all about it.
What if their development team found other jobs, giving the standard 2 weeks notice. Who will maintain the servers and code for those few months? Sure, the code allowing for the export of data might seem trivial but you still need someone to maintain the system. It's almost guaranteed to need some kind of attention over a couple of months in use. Especially if the export feature was written quickly after the announce…
All they would need is few KBs for every user. They can as well just email the exports to people in case they didn't turn up to collect the export themselves (maybe missed the email or are in the woods trekking or whatever). Either as attachments or hosted somewhere they won't delete in 2 weeks.
(Though it shouldn't be a problem for those who have it in their sent boxes, but some even wrote on the website sometimes like I did).
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#143Earlier 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.
Start any businesses? Prove that this is a mistake. I want cited sources.
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Committing time and money to a failed venture is the biggest mistake an entrepreneur can make. Committing time and money to enhance your reputation is never a mistake.
That's really easy to say when you're not the one who is paying for it. This is pretty typical. Every single business owner out there knows that the non-paying users generate more noise and complaints than an average paying customer. The bullshit 'reputation' angle you are playing is a total non-sense. Tell that to Max Levchin and 99% of other entrepreneurs that had to fail and fail hard prior to actually making it.…
Get Max Levchin to comment here now or you're lying.
Re: OhLife is shutting down
#145Seriously? 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.
Can you please share a link that puts a dollar value on his time. Otherwise this is just unfounded rumour.
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#146I have been using this platform for a few months and suggested it to all my following. I find it a joke a are closing. I know that may seem harsh but the reality is you have had 4 years to get together a marketing/business plan and make this work. 4 years to setup strategic alliances with key and complimenting services/companies and yet here we are.
I can sum this up quickly, key players in the company (I know they only mention 2 on the about us page) lost interest and now its hurry up and shut down.
What the founders are failing to see is people remember these things and this un-thought out idea will haunt them for a long time. I personally have put them on my do not do business with list.
As for the tool itself, its uber easy to duplicate this so I will be making my own internal tool for myself and clients/students.
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#147I 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.
I have offered to buy but they have not returned my emails, so we're going to build our own version and offer an import feature. Will be housed at http://everymoment.me as soon as we have something ready to go.
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#148Two weeks notice before a service that was meant to help "privately remember your memorable days" deleted all of those memories? Time to find out who runs this and never trust them with anything again. Two weeks is laughably short and disrespectful to your users. If at least they were open about the issue that forces them to shutdown, maybe users would be able to help out by donating to keep it online for longer? Shi…
you can export your ohlife-diary and import it into maildiary.net and start over. Within a few minutes you have a comparable service running.
Thanks for mentioning MailDiary!
Re: OhLife is shutting down
#149You can also export your ohlife-diary and import it into 'the little memory'. I use it and I love it.
Here's the link that explains how to do it http://blog.thelittlememory.com/
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#150This looks like a viable, albeit less functional, alternative: http://dailydiary.com/
Less functional in the sense that it doesn't support attaching a picture to replies and doesn't include a past entry in the daily reminder, but I'm happy to fast track both of those features if there's demand. Let me know if there's other features you'd like to see!
A way to view random posts would be great as well :)