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Wow...kudos on having the balls to a) admit this finally - especially given the implicit pressure you must feel being a part of YC with PG's "perseverance is ev

Wow...kudos on having the balls to a) admit this finally - especially given the implicit pressure you must feel being a part of YC with PG's "perseverance is everything" mantra. and b) admit it so candidly and publicly. Why could you just not leave it running (on Heroku's free plan for instance) and not maintain it for a while and see what happens? Or did you do this already and realized that it needed you hands-on daily to work? Or is there some pre-text to have taken money from YC and Yuri Milner that you basically have to officially kill it and liquidate everything?

jazzychad 15y ago
Well, I didn't get the Yuri money (that started two batches after mine), otherwise the runway would have been much longer. The system is too custom to run on any of the Heroku-like services out there. I'm exploring other potential options, but I'm not one to give out false hope.
- patio11 15y ago
  Just my opinion, but there's no shame whatever in killing it dead, and it is probably optimal for both you and your users/customers. I take a salary to be the on-call ops guy for my services. If Notifo isn't paying the bills, the heck with that. A server dying at 3 AM in the morning is your problem if and only if you are getting compensated to worry about that. You have a life to lead, at Twilio (or wherever) and all the parts of your life that are more important than working. The Notifo chapter is over. Much love to users from those days, but they don't get a moral claim on your time until doomsday because you happened to write some code that one time. It's also maximally in their interests to be clear about this: Notifo is going away. It will not be improved, it will not be maintained, it will not be supported, it will probably not be turned into whatever some does-not-do-this-for-a-living person thinks is an ideal way to continue providing service to them for free to far-too-cheap. If your notification needs matter to you, start transitioning now.
  - whatusername 15y ago
    Patrick -- are you going to change the name of Appointment Reminder now? I think I remember you posting that you had notiphone.com registered for it - but went with the boring name option instead of clashing with a new yc company.
    - patio11 15y ago
      Prior to reading today, I would have said "I might change the name of Appointment Reminder at some point in the future, but have no specific plans to do it in the near future." I think that's pretty much still true.
      - JacobAldridge 15y ago
        Plus "notiphone.com" sounds like an anti-Apple website.
        ericd 15y ago
        FWIW, I read it as Not iPhone dot com at first.

jazzychad 15y ago

Well, I didn't get the Yuri money (that started two batches after mine), otherwise the runway would have been much longer. The system is too custom to run on any of the Heroku-like services out there. I'm exploring other potential options, but I'm not one to give out false hope.

patio11 15y ago
Just my opinion, but there's no shame whatever in killing it dead, and it is probably optimal for both you and your users/customers. I take a salary to be the on-call ops guy for my services. If Notifo isn't paying the bills, the heck with that. A server dying at 3 AM in the morning is your problem if and only if you are getting compensated to worry about that. You have a life to lead, at Twilio (or wherever) and all the parts of your life that are more important than working. The Notifo chapter is over. Much love to users from those days, but they don't get a moral claim on your time until doomsday because you happened to write some code that one time. It's also maximally in their interests to be clear about this: Notifo is going away. It will not be improved, it will not be maintained, it will not be supported, it will probably not be turned into whatever some does-not-do-this-for-a-living person thinks is an ideal way to continue providing service to them for free to far-too-cheap. If your notification needs matter to you, start transitioning now.
- whatusername 15y ago
  Patrick -- are you going to change the name of Appointment Reminder now? I think I remember you posting that you had notiphone.com registered for it - but went with the boring name option instead of clashing with a new yc company.
  - patio11 15y ago
    Prior to reading today, I would have said "I might change the name of Appointment Reminder at some point in the future, but have no specific plans to do it in the near future." I think that's pretty much still true.
    - JacobAldridge 15y ago
      Plus "notiphone.com" sounds like an anti-Apple website.
      - ericd 15y ago
        FWIW, I read it as Not iPhone dot com at first.