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Truth is, this service never quite delivered on their promise. When my last two startups closed shop, it took shutdownify over 3 days to process the first one,

by kzhahou 11y ago

Truth is, this service never quite delivered on their promise. When my last two startups closed shop, it took shutdownify over 3 days to process the first one, and the second was still a full two days to get up and running. At that point I could have just put together a page myself. It didn't help that they rewrote their tech stack from Ruby to Node even as they were trying to find customers. In the end, the user doesn't care what it's built with.

danso 11y ago
It really is a company that is destined to fail: only during a bubble would such an idea get VC funding, but it's only after the bubble bursts that they'd have a hockey stick growth. It's an enigma wrapped up in a paradox
- quadrangle 11y ago
  They got VC funding‽ craziness… I don't believe it.
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  - njloof 11y ago
    "It's the Web 2.0 version of fuckedcompany.com!"
kazinator 11y ago
> In the end, the user doesn't care what it's built with. Let alone the user who is facing a shutdown of their business.
asavadatti 11y ago
They had to transition to Node. The UI was really counter intuitive in Ruby.
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- eterm 11y ago
  This is one of those posts for which poe's law was written. (notsure)
  - chrisdevereux 11y ago
    Challenge accepted!!!! (Possibly missing the point) setOfAllPossibleStatesOfWorld.every(s => s.app.isRewrittenInNode) && app.rubyVersion.hasReallyUnintuitiveUI
reinhardt 11y ago
My experience was quite different. Good content, fast delivery, 10/10 would shutdown again!
elwell 11y ago
I think they could have served their shutdown notices off of nginx and then they could have held up under reddit hugs, or at least with cloudflare. Ultimately, a static page cannot be optimally served off of Node.
elwell 11y ago
This turn of events is quite surprising. After they secured the .com of their company name, I thought they'd made it as an industry standard.
carrja99 11y ago
I too am let down over their broken promises. After $30 Million in seed funding you'd think they'd get their act together.
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by kzhahou 11y ago

danso 11y ago

It really is a company that is destined to fail: only during a bubble would such an idea get VC funding, but it's only after the bubble bursts that they'd have a hockey stick growth. It's an enigma wrapped up in a paradox

quadrangle 11y ago
They got VC funding‽ craziness… I don't believe it.
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- njloof 11y ago
  "It's the Web 2.0 version of fuckedcompany.com!"

kazinator 11y ago

> In the end, the user doesn't care what it's built with. Let alone the user who is facing a shutdown of their business.

asavadatti 11y ago

They had to transition to Node. The UI was really counter intuitive in Ruby.

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eterm 11y ago
This is one of those posts for which poe's law was written. (notsure)
- chrisdevereux 11y ago
  Challenge accepted!!!! (Possibly missing the point) setOfAllPossibleStatesOfWorld.every(s => s.app.isRewrittenInNode) && app.rubyVersion.hasReallyUnintuitiveUI

reinhardt 11y ago

My experience was quite different. Good content, fast delivery, 10/10 would shutdown again!

elwell 11y ago

I think they could have served their shutdown notices off of nginx and then they could have held up under reddit hugs, or at least with cloudflare. Ultimately, a static page cannot be optimally served off of Node.

elwell 11y ago

This turn of events is quite surprising. After they secured the .com of their company name, I thought they'd made it as an industry standard.

carrja99 11y ago

I too am let down over their broken promises. After $30 Million in seed funding you'd think they'd get their act together.

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