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Fakespot will shut down on July 1

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Re: Fakespot will shut down on July 1

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Post by xeromal »

Bummed about this. I know some people didn't like it but it never hurts to have extra signals about the quality of the product even if it falls short. My typical research path was looking for legit amazon reviews, fakespot highlights, and reddit comments. Using vetted.ai to replace fakespot but it's pretty mid in what I've seen so far.

Re: Fakespot will shut down on July 1

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Post by ksherlock »

jandrese wrote: post #4

Is there a post somewhere explaining why they are shutting down? Did they just run out of money? Was it being run by a single guy who is tired of maintaining it?

There is. Previously on HN:

Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063662

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/building-whats-next/

Re: Fakespot will shut down on July 1

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Post by jandrese »

ksherlock wrote: post #6
jandrese wrote: post #4

Is there a post somewhere explaining why they are shutting down? Did they just run out of money? Was it being run by a single guy who is tired of maintaining it?

There is. Previously on HN: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063662 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/building-whats-next/

Thanks. The banner on the linked website offered no hints whatsoever.

After digging through a couple blog posts:

> While the idea resonated, it didn’t fit a model we could sustain.

They ran out of money.

Re: Fakespot will shut down on July 1

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Post by neilv »

> Thanks for supporting our journey.

Probably just traditional "our incredible journey" exit language, but reminds me to mention a mindset misalignment that we see frequently in startups:

Providing a solution isn't about our journey (together?). It's about the solution.

I think many of us often have good alignment at some point, and really want to solve the problem.

But as it becomes a business, we also have to be thinking about the business.

That's OK, but remember that we're also still purporting to solve a problem.

The people for whom the problem is being solved don't much care about our journey -- they care about the problem being solved.

If the solution effort is ending, and we're framing it to those people as our "journey", that sounds like we missed the point of the "support".

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