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Oftentimes I see farewell posts like this, but the company website has already been mostly turned down. It would be helpful for folks like me who have never hea
by bastawhiz 8y ago
Oftentimes I see farewell posts like this, but the company website has already been mostly turned down. It would be helpful for folks like me who have never heard of Waffle to know what the service was. Having that tiny bit of context at the top of the article (or even just keeping the marketing site alive!) helps to put the shutdown in context.
And yes, I can search, but more often than not the first page of search results are news stories that the service is shutting down rather than resources that describes what it actually was.
- gk1 8y agoTry the Wayback Machine.
- ThinkBeat 8y agoA very good point. I would like to see that as well.
- tunnuz 8y agoSame, also from what I gather they've been acquired, so hardly a sad day.
- Insanity 8y agoTo work on a different team though, with a similar but not identical product I assume.
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]
- Cederfjard 8y agoIn case anyone is wondering about this particular case: https://github.com/waffleio/waffle.io https://github.com/waffleio/waffle.io https://waffle.io/waffleio/waffle.io https://waffle.io/waffleio/waffle.io
- davweb 8y agoIn short: Trello, but with GitHub integration. https://help.waffle.io/getting-started/what-is-waffle https://help.waffle.io/getting-started/what-is-waffle
- avip 8y agoBut trello has github integration.
- lwb 8y agoHence the shutdown
- acct1771 8y agoNotice they're closing?
- jasonmp85 8y agoTrello's integration is an afterthought and I never found it as useful or simple as Waffle's; they'll be missed. They're not "closing"; CA Technologies bought them a while back and now CA is selling to Broadcom, who's killing the product.
- Eire_Banshee 8y agoExactly.
- bdcravens 8y agoIt didn't always. Products like Waffle and ZenHub came about to meet market needs for better project management with Github. (Waffle launched in 2013)
- amelius 8y agoSee also this Show HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6022522 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6022522
- corprew 8y agowaffle.io was github projects, built on top of the github api, a few years before github projects. basically a github-based kanban board. It was pretty great if you were a smallish startup.
- ken 8y agoI worked at a small startup that used it, and I didn't see the point. It was clever in how it provided an alternative interface to GitHub Issues, but to someone who was already familiar with GitHub, it didn't really make anything easier than just using the normal interface. There are things I hate about GitHub Issues, but this didn't solve any of them. Plus, an add-on service like that was just begging for GitHub to add the feature themselves, so the company always had an end-of-life looming. One possible exit was GitHub buying them, but I'm sure GitHub would rather build the feature natively (as they did, right?) for technical reasons. Another is expanding to a standalone service, but GitHub and Trello already owned each side of that space. It always looked like a technically interesting product but one that I wouldn't use myself and which had no future.
- cronix 8y agoOr github repos, showing how to use it but not even a simple paragraph up front stating what it does, or why you'd want to use it.
- andybak 8y agoTo be fair not every Github repo cares whether you know what it is or not. Some people just wanted the repo hosting and the public/social aspect was merely a byproduct.
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]
- kevinyun 8y agoGlad to see this as the first comment. Was curious what waffle was, so I spent five minutes googling around and going to cache:waffle.io
- mch82 8y agoCould be an interesting project to collect & archive these case studies as they’re published...