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When you have a successful product people love, you don't sunset it because the tech stack is too cumbersome. This has to mean that the product wasn't seeing t
by fra 8y ago
When you have a successful product people love, you don't sunset it because the tech stack is too cumbersome.
This has to mean that the product wasn't seeing the adoption they were hoping for.
- nathancahill 8y agoYou might if you find yourself developing duplicate features in parallel in two different codebases.
- oihoaihsfoiahsf 8y agoI'm sure it's a little bit of both, right? If 99% of Gmail users had voluntarily migrated to Inbox, I'm quite certain it would not be getting shut down. That doesn't preclude that there is a significant contingent out there that loves Inbox. (BTW the same goes for the old HN hobby-horse, Reader. If it had had a billion users, it would never have gotten shut down.)
- munificent 8y agoLove don't pay the bills. If the product isn't helping the bottom line, companies will sunset it. "Free beer" would be the most widely adopted offering a bar could have, but it's not going to be good business for the bar.
- haggy 8y ago> love don't pay the bills Thats not always true especially with Google. Anything that helps tighten the already tight grip they have on users directly affects the bottom line.
- nickwalton00 8y agoThat's sad. I would pay to use inbox.
- pound 8y agoWell, you're talking about product strategy in context of google..