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Why is this company being bought by Twitter? Trying to enter a new market? HN, will they succeed?
by hidden-spyder 5y ago
Why is this company being bought by Twitter? Trying to enter a new market? HN, will they succeed?
- rvz 5y agoI had high hopes for Quill and their high quality messaging app, but there is no way I am going to use it given that it is going to be locked and transformed into a Twitter product in the future. No thanks and no deal to that. But it seems very obvious that Twitter is competing with Discord, and Slack. So that has been admitted.
- AndrewHayes 5y agoSeems it won't just be locked. Looks like it's going to be gone in about 4 days.
- indymike 5y ago> But it seems very obvious that Twitter is competing with Discord, and Slack. So that has been admitted. I'm not sure how they would even begin to compete with Slack. The only similarity is they have messages in the data store.
- skrebbel 5y agoLooks like company tanked and this is an acquihire, hopefully getting some investors some money back. No way there's any product/customer value here if they turn it all off 4 days after the announcement.
- nsx147 5y agoNot a new market, twitter dm's are terrible. hopefully they just make that experience better. increase retention guaranteed
- brailsafe 5y ago> We started Quill with the goal of increasing the quality of human communication. I'm sure Twitter also had that goal on their first day.
- paxys 5y agoQuill had some big-time investors like Index Ventures, General Catalyst and Sam Altman. Often such failing companies are bought out as a special favor to them to maintain good industry relations.
- skinnymuch 5y agoThis appears to be the MO for Altman. That’s what happened to his first [and only?] company he founded. Funny this can be called special favors. Cronyism seems more honest and apt.