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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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bxparks ◴[11 Oct 25 23:45 UTC] No.45553791[source]▶
A lot of things on https://killedbygoogle.com/ . I used to use 30-40 Google products and services. I'm down to 3-4.

Google Picasa: Everything local, so fast, so good. I'm never going to give my photos to G Photos.

Google Hangouts: Can't keep track of all the Google chat apps. I use Signal now.

Google G Suite Legacy: It was supposed to be free forever. They killed it, tried to make me pay. I migrated out of Google.

Google Play Music: I had uploaded thousands of MP3 files there. They killed it. I won't waste my time uploading again.

Google Finance: Tracked my stocks and funds there. Then they killed it. Won't trust them with my data again.

Google NFC Wallet: They killed it. Then Apple launched the same thing, and took over.

Google Chromecast Audio: It did one thing, which is all I needed. Sold mine as soon as they announced they were killing it.

Google Chromecast: Wait, they killed Chromecast? I did not know that until I started writing this..

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nja ◴[12 Oct 25 02:35 UTC] No.45554670[source]▶
Chromecast Audio still works! They just don't sell them anymore. I use mine every day, and have been keeping an eye out for anyone selling theirs...
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bxparks ◴[12 Oct 25 03:14 UTC] No.45554868[source]▶
Hmm, good to know. But given Google's history, I assumed that it would stop working.

I also need to sell my Google Chromecast with Google TV 4K. Brand new, still in its shrink wrap. Bought it last year, to replace a flaky Roku. It was a flaky HDMI cable instead. I trust Roku more than Google for hardware support.

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1. lexicality ◴[12 Oct 25 08:08 UTC] No.45556310[source]▶
In absolutely shocking news, it did stop working and then Google went out of their way to fix it.

I genuinely thought all the chromecast audios I owned were useless bricks and was looking around for replacements and then they just started working again from an OTA update. Astounding. I assume someone got fired for taking time away from making search worse to do this.

(edit: https://www.techradar.com/televisions/streaming-devices/goog...)

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2. portaouflop ◴[12 Oct 25 10:20 UTC] No.45557016[source]▶
They are still selling their remaining stock and vowed to keep supporting it with bug fixes and security updates: https://blog.google/products/google-nest/chromecast-history/

Of course another question how long they will honor that commitment.