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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: 0.232s | source

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.
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mbirth ◴[12 Oct 25 01:37 UTC] No.45554368[source]▶
wua.la … the original version. You share part of your storage to get the same amount back as resilient cloud storage from others. Was bought and killed by LaCie (now Seagate). They later provided paid-for cloud storage under the same name but it didn’t take off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuala

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1. ValdikSS ◴[13 Oct 25 18:42 UTC] No.45571886[source]▶
I used that!

Nowadays we have cryptocurrency-based Sia, Storj, which are kind of similar.