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What Was Quartz?

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141 points mooreds | 1 comments | 07 Apr 25 22:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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donohoe ◴[07 Apr 25 23:06 UTC] No.43616880[source]▶
Zach nails it. He is the reason why I was involved briefly at the start and for where I am today.

It was my first time leading a product team. We tried a lot of things that seemed strange at the time; no homepage, no app, native ads (done well imho), a scrolling stream instead of pages. Some of that broke. Some of it worked. A lot of it stuck around.

RIP Quartz.

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coloneltcb ◴[07 Apr 25 23:36 UTC] No.43617019[source]▶
the first publication (that I recall) that offered a chatbot for news too, right?
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donohoe ◴[07 Apr 25 23:42 UTC] No.43617053[source]▶
Yeah, you might be right. I was gone by then so not 100%. Sam Williams was behind that app. I’m not a fan of chat apps but that was done really well and I was surprised by it.
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1. striking ◴[08 Apr 25 01:24 UTC] No.43617513[source]▶
I really loved the Quartz chat app. I loved how carefully curated it was, how it didn't waste my time, how it gave me an outlay of just the things I care about. It felt a little like a friend was texting me about the news rather than just a dump of news itself.

And I was a little sad when my friend stopped texting me.