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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: 0.209s | 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 08:46 UTC] No.45556532[source]▶
Skype ; Because my R.I.P. grandma was using it to talk to her relatives overseas just like she would use a phone, but it didn't cost an arm and a leg (unlike phone calls).
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silcoon ◴[12 Oct 25 10:14 UTC] No.45556996[source]▶
One of the best P2P software at the time. It was so simple and effective and allowed people to call real phones with Skype credit.

A genius product ripped my Microsoft. Have you used Microsoft Teams recently? Bad UI, hard to configure external hardware and good level of incompatibility, missing the good old "Echo / Sound Test Service". At a point I even installed Skype of my old Android but was sucking up too much battery.

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1. Marsymars ◴[12 Oct 25 16:46 UTC] No.45559607[source]▶
Not just "of the time" - if you need to call international numbers as of 2025, there's no good replacement for Skype from earlier this year.