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Re: OhLife is shutting down

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Post by vpontis »

dshah wrote: post #45
dabent wrote: post #25

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.

Interestingly, my usage dates back to around the same time (Sep, 2010) and the list of features that I use/need is identical. Just a daily email reminder with a previous post from the past year/month. If the founder(s) of OhLife are reading this thread, I'd like to make an offer: I'll pay to host the infrastructure/servers (up to $1,000/month) as a contribution to the community. My guess is, a lot of people are using…

Maybe a crowdsourced model might actually do better than a freemium model. You're right, it's the simplicity that makes it so nice. So they don't really need to iterate on features at this point.

Re: OhLife is shutting down

#52

Post by haesel »

lancer wrote: post #49
joycey wrote: post #33

This 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!

I have just joined daily diary (was on ohlife for 3 years). If you added the feature of emailing previous entries to us, that would be enough. Very exciting!

Re: OhLife is shutting down

#53

Post by kpommerenke »

If you don't want to worry about losing your data in the future, try Chronicle of Life. As a non-profit with an endowment fund, we're probably the safest guardian of your data.

You can already get a daily reminder email and hit reply to save your thoughts. We're currently reworking the website (long overdue), and will add the option to see a previous post in the reminder email by mid October.

Re: OhLife is shutting down

#54

Post by hnha »

Two 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? Shit like this makes me hate startup culture.

Re: OhLife is shutting down

#55

Post by lolWireshark »

dabent wrote: post #25

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.

280daily may be of interest to you.

Re: OhLife is shutting down

#56

Post by eli »

vpontis wrote: post #51
dshah wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interestingly, my usage dates back to around the same time (Sep, 2010) and the list of features that I use/need is identical. Just a daily email reminder with a previous post from the past year/month. If the founder(s) of OhLife are reading this thread, I'd like to make an offer: I'll pay to host the infrastructure/servers (up to $1,000/month) as a contribution to the community. My guess is, a lot of people are using…

Maybe a crowdsourced model might actually do better than a freemium model. You're right, it's the simplicity that makes it so nice. So they don't really need to iterate on features at this point.

Simply maintaining a web application unfortunately requires a fair bit more than just paying the hosting bill, even if you're not adding features.

Re: OhLife is shutting down

#58

Post by slando »

OhLife Founders,

You have a habit-forming business. I'm dependent on this and worked it into my daily rituals.

I would have gladly payed money to continue using this service.

Why was this model not experimented with, before deeming your venture "not financially stable"?

Thanks for the memories.

Re: OhLife is shutting down

#60

Post by joycey »

lancer wrote: post #49
joycey wrote: post #33

This 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 past entry would be awesome to have. I actually never knew about the attach a picture feature until after OhLife got shut down, so I personally don't care too much about that. More importantly, in general the UI could use a facelift. It's not bad after you've already created a question but the form of question generation isn't really easy to follow at all. Also, as others have suggested, export of OhLife data would be awesome.
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