I wonder if this was one of those "if you don't join us we're going to copy you" acquisitions.
That's not really a threat, if copying requires taste and wisdom.
Pixate (YC S12) and Google
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Re: Pixate (YC S12) and Google
#62Here's why I (and jawngee) never used Pixate's products for my apps: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5062868 Given that I only make iOS apps, and that Google acquired them, I feel vindicated 916 days later.
How much is Google paying the KickStarter backers?
Oh.
Re: Pixate (YC S12) and Google
#63Strong candidate for http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
Starting a company and being acquired is an incredible journey so I don't understand the humour in this.
Re: Pixate (YC S12) and Google
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Funny how everybody is "excited", "delighted" and "ecstatic" about being acquired by a mega corporate.
We really need to stop portraying aquihires as something bad or some kind of terrible failure. Congrats to the Pixate team.
Aqui-hire is usually a failure, because it means the company's product has so little value the the whole value of the company is reduced to its team.
It's often a "let's recoup our losses" move for the investors.
Re: Pixate (YC S12) and Google
#65Strong candidate for http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
Starting a company and being acquired is an incredible journey so I don't understand the humour in this.
The humour is that they always announce that thanks to the big corp the product is going to sky-rocket, but after 6 months or so they shut it down.
It's probably great for the founders, not so much for the customers who trusted them and allowed them to grow to the point of being noticed by Big Corp.
Re: Pixate (YC S12) and Google
#66Prescient comment in the old TC article[1]:
Given the corporate interest, it sounds like Pixate has an easy exit ahead of it, if they so desired, but Colton says that’s not the route they’re taking right now. “We want to see how broad this can be,” Colton says. “It’s really a big change in how you can build apps,” he adds.
1. http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/15/pixate-debuts-a-framework-f...
Re: Pixate (YC S12) and Google
#67Was on the "Check it out" list for IOS. Guess I can cross it off as Im sure IOS support will go first then the entire product later to the great google product graveyard.