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You should read the post. > For you, the Instapaper end user and customer, nothing changes. The Instapaper team will be moving from betaworks in New York City
by jonknee 10y ago
You should read the post.
> For you, the Instapaper end user and customer, nothing changes. The Instapaper team will be moving from betaworks in New York City to Pinterest’s headquarters in San Francisco, and we’ll continue to make Instapaper a great place to save and read articles.
They are shutting down a developer product Instaparser that I don't think had much traction (first I've heard of it actually) and is less than six months old.
- protomyth 10y agoyou should read the post > As we focus on the future of the user experience, we’ll be sunsetting our developer product, Instaparser. Starting today, we will cease signups for Instaparser and halt billing for existing customers. In order to ensure a smooth transition for current users, we will keep Instaparser running until November 1, 2016. [edit: parent added another sentence after my reply]
- jonknee 10y agoYes, the API that no one uses and was announced in April. The product Instapaper that is in the headline and is what everyone knows about is not going anywhere.
- ihuman 10y ago[Edited to be deleted by user since I can't delete this]
- jonknee 10y agoIt was announced in April and is being shut down in August. Do the math.
- pc86 10y agoPedantry aside, if you're as big as Instapaper and you launch a product that 50 people use for side projects, you can safely say that nobody uses it.
- ihuman 10y ago[Edited to be deleted by user since I can't delete this]
- pc86 10y agoMy point was that in the broader scheme of things, a trivial number of people have even heard of Instaparser, let alone those who have heard about it, care about it, have signed up for an account, used it for anything beyond a side project, and are actually paying money for it.
- reitanqild 10y ago> you should read the post >> As we focus on the future of the user experience, we’ll be sunsetting our developer product, Instaparser. This seems to be about Instaparser, not the core product Instapaper?
- protomyth 10y agoAs I said, Pinterest has cancelled one product (Instaparser) as part of the acquisition which had some customers. They are currently keeping the main product (Instapaper), but we will have to see if that is a long term thing. Pinterest picked some customers to keep and some to cancel.
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