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Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

358 points ofalkaed | 2 comments | 11 Oct 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.
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haunter ◴[11 Oct 25 23:06 UTC] No.45553492[source]▶
Vine. 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.
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geor9e ◴[11 Oct 25 23:31 UTC] No.45553691[source]▶
I will never forgive twitter for this catch and kill of a platform so full of life
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burnt-resistor ◴[12 Oct 25 03:28 UTC] No.45554950[source]▶
Perhaps because they already had Periscope that no one used. It was a "buy competitor to kill it" play that didn't have the desired effect.
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1. tdeck ◴[12 Oct 25 03:57 UTC] No.45555084{3}[source]▶
Amusingly Periscope was their clone of Meerkat which was briefly popular before they killed it.
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2. heylook ◴[12 Oct 25 19:52 UTC] No.45561250[source]▶
Periscope was in closed beta when Meerkat launched. Neither was a clone of the other. Just two teams with the same idea at the same time.