Google Reader. We could have had a great society, man.
The loss of Google Reader really does feel like the beginning of the end in retrospect.
Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?
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#72Vine. It was already pretty big back in 2013 but Twitter had no idea what to do with it. TikTok actually launched just a few months before Vine was shut down and erased from the internet.
I've thought about this too. Imagine all the drama the US government could've avoided if Vine had won over TikTok!
With Elon running it? He probably would have actively sold it to china.
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've thought about this too. Imagine all the drama the US government could've avoided if Vine had won over TikTok!
With Elon running it? He probably would have actively sold it to china.
In a world where Vine is as successful as TikTok ended up being, who’s to say they get to a point where selling to Musk even happens?
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#74Yahoo pipes. It was so great at creating rss feeds and custom workflows. There are replacements now like Zapier and n8n but loved that. Also google reader which is mentioned multiple times already.
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#75The "Eve" programming language / IDE - https://witheve.com
It was a series of experiments with new approaches to programming. Kind of reminded me of the research that gave us Smalltalk. It would have been interesting to see where they went with it, but they wound down the project.
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#76Google Wave. Edit: you asked why. I first saw it at SELF where Chris DiBona showed it to me and a close friend. It was awesome. Real time translation, integration of various types of messaging, tons of cool capabilities, and it was fully open source. What made it out of Google was a stripped down version of what I was shown, the market rejected it, and it was a sad day. Now, I am left with JIRA, Slack, and email. It…
wave was fucking amazing. buggy but amazing
Re: Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?
#77Google Wave. Edit: you asked why. I first saw it at SELF where Chris DiBona showed it to me and a close friend. It was awesome. Real time translation, integration of various types of messaging, tons of cool capabilities, and it was fully open source. What made it out of Google was a stripped down version of what I was shown, the market rejected it, and it was a sad day. Now, I am left with JIRA, Slack, and email. It…
Discord is function wise the best now...
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#78A lot of things on https://killedbygoogle.com/ . I used to use 30-40 Google products and services. I'm down to 3-4. Google Picasa: Everything local, so fast, so good. I'm never going to give my photos to G Photos. Google Hangouts: Can't keep track of all the Google chat apps. I use Signal now. Google G Suite Legacy: It was supposed to be free forever. They killed it, tried to make me pay. I migrated out of Google. Go…
Google Search: Not officially dead yet, but....
yup, losing 0.000087% year-over-year so in 865 billion years it’ll be dead :)
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#79Meteor
It's alive and well!
Re: Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?
#80A lot of things on https://killedbygoogle.com/ . I used to use 30-40 Google products and services. I'm down to 3-4. Google Picasa: Everything local, so fast, so good. I'm never going to give my photos to G Photos. Google Hangouts: Can't keep track of all the Google chat apps. I use Signal now. Google G Suite Legacy: It was supposed to be free forever. They killed it, tried to make me pay. I migrated out of Google. Go…
I'm still upset that Google Maps no longer tracks my location. It was very useful to be able to go back and see how often and where I had gone.
Is there another app where I can store this locally?