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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: 0.015s | source

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.
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haunter ◴[11 Oct 25 23:06 UTC] No.45553492[source]▶
Vine. It was already pretty big back in 2013 but Twitter had no idea what to do with it. TikTok actually launched just a few months before Vine was shut down and erased from the internet.
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bapak ◴[12 Oct 25 05:10 UTC] No.45555425[source]▶
Whoever took the decision to kill Vine was an absolute moron, even without hindsight. It was square videos, how hard could it have been to shove an ads banner above it and call it a day? Incredible
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1. edent ◴[12 Oct 25 11:21 UTC] No.45557321[source]▶
There's an excellent write up at https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/28/extreme...
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2. bazmattaz ◴[12 Oct 25 15:16 UTC] No.45558791[source]▶
That is so fascinating. They completely ignored their most most valuable users and thus the users left and the site collapsed. Fascinating, the hubris of the leadership at twitter to think they knew better than their users