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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: 0s | source

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.
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BirAdam ◴[12 Oct 25 02:43 UTC] No.45554716[source]▶
Google Wave.

Edit: you asked why. I first saw it at SELF where Chris DiBona showed it to me and a close friend. It was awesome. Real time translation, integration of various types of messaging, tons of cool capabilities, and it was fully open source. What made it out of Google was a stripped down version of what I was shown, the market rejected it, and it was a sad day. Now, I am left with JIRA, Slack, and email. It sucks.

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jwpapi ◴[12 Oct 25 03:11 UTC] No.45554843[source]▶
Discord is function wise the best now...
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portaouflop ◴[12 Oct 25 10:13 UTC] No.45556987[source]▶
I don’t get the downvotes. Discord for all its flaws is amazing. I never experienced wave so maybe the comparison is not a good one?
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1. progval ◴[12 Oct 25 10:30 UTC] No.45557061{3}[source]▶
It's indeed not a good one. Discord refined instant messaging and bolts other things on top like forums but isn't fundamentally different. Google Wave was (and still is) a completely different paradigm. Everything was natively collaborative: it mixed instant messaging with document edition (like Google Docs or pads) and any widget you could think of (polls, calendars, playing music, drawing, ...) could be added by users through sandboxed Javascript. The current closest I can think of is DeltaChat's webxdc.