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What Was Quartz?

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142 points mooreds | 1 comments | 4/7/2025, 10:24:00 PM | HN request time: 0.229s | source
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donohoe ◴[4/7/2025, 11:06:00 PM] 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 ◴[4/7/2025, 11:36:00 PM] No.43617019[source]▶

the first publication (that I recall) that offered a chatbot for news too, right?

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donohoe ◴[4/7/2025, 11:42:00 PM] 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. Drew_ ◴[4/8/2025, 1:46:00 AM] No.43617631[source]▶

Ditto on loving Quartz and the chat app around 2015 I think it was. After Quartz was gone, I didn't really find what I was looking for until I discovered Axios.