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

358 points ofalkaed | 4 comments | 11 Oct 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.009s | source

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.
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kesor ◴[12 Oct 25 08:43 UTC] No.45556517[source]▶
Geocities ; It was a "put your html here" Free web hosting back when people barely knew what html was. Today you have to be a rocket scientist to find a way to host a free static "simple" page online.
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1. mock-possum ◴[12 Oct 25 08:53 UTC] No.45556584[source]▶
I’ll bet you I could ask any LLM about it and have something launched within an hour.

tumblr will practically let you do that for chrissake

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2. pessimizer ◴[12 Oct 25 11:57 UTC] No.45557553[source]▶
tumblr is nothing like a webpage. LLMs were just invented 5 minutes ago and are losing money hand over fist until people are dependent, then will be very expensive to use; and you still have to figure out how to host, where to host, and how much it's going to cost you. So, I have no idea what you're getting at.

You could have said Wordpress.com or something. It's not quite a website, but it's close. It's also probably going to be Typepad (i.e. defunct) in a few years and Blogger is probably going to be there quicker than that.

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3. mock-possum ◴[12 Oct 25 17:18 UTC] No.45559917[source]▶
Ask the LLM about hosting too. I’ve literally gone through this process recently - setting up hosting, a domain, and a static html site from scratch, vibing from start to finish. It is not difficult.
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4. pessimizer ◴[12 Oct 25 19:02 UTC] No.45560811{3}[source]▶
It is between one and two orders of magnitude harder than geocities, and infinitely more expensive.