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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: 0.001s | source

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.
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coreyhn ◴[12 Oct 25 03:07 UTC] No.45554825[source]▶
Yahoo 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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1. benrutter ◴[12 Oct 25 04:45 UTC] No.45555299[source]▶
I never used it, but Yahoo pipes sounds like it was awesome whenever I hear people talk about it.

I don't know if it was Yahoo Pipes that died, or a mainstream internet based on open protocols and standards.

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2. Havoc ◴[12 Oct 25 09:18 UTC] No.45556728[source]▶
It died because it was basically a cool hobby tech demo that happened to be on yahoo domain. There was never any real tie in to yahoo the company