Cue is Shutting Down • Hacker News Board

Re: Cue is Shutting Down

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Post by sonier » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 5:15 AM UTC

gojomo wrote: post #25

Their initial product was impressive and useful. Hope we get more information about what went wrong, and that the team lands somewhere good.

Agree, would love to see a post-mortem blog post. I would also be interesting in finding out what they will do with the technology they created, it would be great if they open sourced it!

Re: Cue is Shutting Down

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Post by stargate87 » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 5:18 AM UTC

citricsquid wrote: post #2

Formerly Greplin. For those that don't know what it/they did: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/cue http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/30/technology/apps-that-know-... (July 2013)

Thanks for this - I has no idea it was the same team. It's a shame, but that smart of a team is probably doing it for the right reasons.

Re: Cue is Shutting Down

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Post by vingt-2 » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 5:29 AM UTC

Cuedown.com you mean ?

Re: Cue is Shutting Down

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Post by dquail » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 5:40 AM UTC

Cue (shutdown), Don.na (pivoted), Tempo, Sunrise, Google Now, others. Fascinating space with a lot of competition. But has any of these products gotten close to a revenue model?

Re: Cue is Shutting Down

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Post by OmleteDuFromage » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 5:41 AM UTC

defen wrote: post #27

Maybe they got an NSL - sudden shutdown, all data deleted...

That was my first thought as well.

Re: Cue is Shutting Down

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Post by DanielRibeiro » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 5:41 AM UTC

citricsquid wrote: post #2

Formerly Greplin. For those that don't know what it/they did: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/cue http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/30/technology/apps-that-know-... (July 2013)

They had tons of Hacker News front pages too: https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=grepli...

And a promising TC article earlier this year: http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/02/too-much-email-please-stop-...

Re: Cue is Shutting Down

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Post by priley » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 5:41 AM UTC

We have essentially the same functionality coming out soon. Register at ark.com

Re: Cue is Shutting Down

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Post by zmitri » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 5:45 AM UTC

priley wrote: post #37

We have essentially the same functionality coming out soon. Register at ark.com

Interested to know what you think about them shutting down then. Seems like they were quite far along... Any insight on what changed their mind or what you will do differently?

Re: Cue is Shutting Down

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 6:12 AM UTC

stargate87 wrote: post #32

citricsquid wrote: post #2

Formerly Greplin. For those that don't know what it/they did: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/cue http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/30/technology/apps-that-know-... (July 2013)

Thanks for this - I has no idea it was the same team. It's a shame, but that smart of a team is probably doing it for the right reasons.

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Re: Cue is Shutting Down

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Post by ballard » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 6:12 AM UTC

It's sad, I remember greplin had a lot of things going for them.

In general re: shutdowns:

If the economics aren't red ink or a white elephant, why not find a buyer or merge with a frenemy instead of throwing away value and customers?

Most shutdowns appear to me like putting 30 packs of $100 bills on a table, pouring gasoline over them and throwing a lit match while rationalizing "Everybody does it, so it's okay. Look at 'em go!"

For apps, building things that cost basically nothing[0] to run and letting them have sufficient time to grow on their own. Rinse. Lather. Repeat faster.

[0] auto-scaling & revenue covering costs.

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