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

358 points ofalkaed | 1 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. Fuzzwah ◴[12 Oct 25 08:10 UTC] No.45556319[source]▶
I loved pipes. I had rss feeds from all the sites where I was sharing content collected up and formatted via pipes into a single rss feed that was pulled into a php blog.

Then all those sites I used to post on stopped supporting rss one by one and finally pipes was killed off.

For a while I used a python library called riko that did the same thing as pipes without the visual editor. I have to thank it for getting me off php and into python.

https://github.com/nerevu/riko