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YouOS (winter 07) shutting down?
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Correction: That's Winter 06.
- zeben 18y agoLOL EBAUMSWORLD
- jacobbijani 18y agoDidn't they move on to thesixtyone.com?
- axod 18y agoI'd love to see some insight into what went right, what went wrong, the decision to shut down etc
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- volida 18y agoin the case a startup attempt fails this is the most valuable thing that is left for the founders. So, asking them to hand it to you is a bit obnoxious
- jedc 18y agoNot really. Roger Ehrenberg has been writing some great posts on what went wrong with his company (Monitor110) at informationarbitrage.com, and has been getting some great feedback. They can leave the private stuff to themselves, but it wouldn't be completely unreasonable for a y-combinator-funded company to at least briefly post a "what went wrong" for the benefit of future startups. They'll still have all their knowledge and experience, and sharing that won't take it away from them.
- volida 18y agoDoesn't mean it must happen public. You can be certain when someone decides to shut down they've already had that kind of discussion, with people the would like to share these thoughts.
- axod 18y agoif their plan was flawed, then sure, they could let others waste time to come to the same conclusion, but that seems mean to me. If they'd rather not say though completely up to them. I think it is interesting though, as web OS things were hyped up at one point. It'd be useful to know if youos shutdown because the plan was flawed, or for some other reasons.
- prakash 18y agoI would like to add, insight from the investors on the reason for investing, what changed in the past 2 years, and if the market conditions have changed, if an opportunity still exists?
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- maxklein 18y agoPeople don't get it, do they. I have ZERO interest in an operating system. No, it's not that I have zero interest in an online operating system, I have no interest in any operating system at all! What I want are quick and convenient applications, and the OS itself is totally irrelevant. So anyone who tries to apply a paradigm that was forced on us to something that we choose to use will ultimately fail. What is needed is not an OS, it's an organiser. A place I store files, write letters, etc. Not some multiple window thingy, but some simply thing that gives me quick access to my applications. Everyone trying to recreate Mac OS or Windows, but webbased is doomed to failure. Mac OS and Windows are used because people don't have a choice as to what desktop paradigm they can use. If one decides to switch, there are no applications, so you are forced into using a particular way. But it has always been a flawed design, so don't copy this stuff.
- axod 18y agoFor me, creating a web OS is the wrong thing to do because the web already is an OS. It just needs more apps porting to it, and more interoperability between them. If you really want to create a new platform, I think it lives or dies depending on the apps you can get on it that can't be found elsewhere. I don't know if youos had any such killer apps...
- rokhayakebe 18y agoThat is correct.The web is an OS, and we only need to structure it a bit more or find a way to unify applications as Google does. Google is the web OS.
- pavelludiq 18y agoIt would be cool if i could hack the Google kernel, too bad its closed source :D
- volida 18y agoit's called WWW and it's not an OS
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- pavelludiq 18y agoI remember showing this to all my friends at school. I opened it up and opened the browser, then i opened it in that browser and opened a browser in that and i did that until IE crashed :D They were all like "Wow, cool"
- globalrev 18y agoSo what do we need? More advanced browsers?
- listic 18y agoWhen you launch, they say it's a cool new idea. When you quit, they say it wouldn't work. Why are people so inconsistent?
- unalone 18y agoIt's a different group of people that speak up each time. Group A doesn't care about looking at shut-downs, only at the "blooming opportunities of the Internet." They talk all the time about cool new things. Group B doesn't care about blather, but when Group A asks why something isn't working they'll explain it.
- lacker 18y agoBecause people can learn from the experience?
- srini 18y agoHi, I'm one of the founders of YouOS. Yeah, we're finally shutting it down. We haven't been working on YouOS actively since November 2006. Why it failed is a long blog post for another time (it centers around not finding a use for it ourselves). Since then, Sam started thesixtyone.com, Jeff works at 23andme, and Joe and I recently sold our new startup, projectwedding.com to eHarmony. It's this last item, logistically, why we're shutting it down at this time.
- tx 18y agoMy wife is a wedding photographer and I must say that projectwedding.com was a brilliant idea.
- immad 18y agoCongratulations on selling projectwedding
- raghus 18y agoit centers around not finding a use for it ourselves - how did you guys get the inspiration/motivation to work on pojectwedding.com? Either/both of you got married and found such a service lacking?
- srini 18y agoYes - Joe was engaged when we started it; he was having trouble finding good wedding vendors.
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