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Ask HN: Why Did StumbleUpon Fail?
The service showed you a random new site relevant to your interests each time you clicked "Stumble". I used the service religiously back when it was up. It was my primary source to find cool stuff, which is a void that has only been partially filled by Reddit. Why did the company die?
- dylz 7y agoSU is now mix.com, I thought?
- personjerry 7y agoMy understanding is that the original company died and mix is the spiritual successor.
- Hard_Space 7y agoGot passed back and forth to the founders in a series of acquisitions that failed to monetize traffic. An old story - (relatively) easy to gather a huge crowd, practically impossible to monetize it without destroying the product.