When Wave came out I worked at a small software company that was pretty distributed all over the country. Wave came as close as anything ever has for being the

When Wave came out I worked at a small software company that was pretty distributed all over the country. Wave came as close as anything ever has for being the perfect collaboration tool for us. The key was taking the set of tools that Wave provided and putting them together to support your desired outcome. Here's something I wrote about it back then. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7533023 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7533023 Sadly, since Google killed it, I've never been able to get other teams to pick up the open sourced versions and now everybody just wants to use <insert latest startup collab tool>. It definitely had a tremendous number of problems in execution, but I never really got why Google killed it so fast. It seems that a reboot and rethink of some core metaphors would have tightened it up into the new paradigm it needed to become.