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Is it not? Any venture funded product has a sword of Damocles over its head. After acquisition the company product is much less likely to be shut down in the l
by seizethecheese 3y ago
Is it not?
Any venture funded product has a sword of Damocles over its head. After acquisition the company product is much less likely to be shut down in the long run (unless it’s Google).
- candiddevmike 3y agoThe blog post reads like an acqui-hire, which almost always means the product gets shut down or open sourced and left for dead.
- miah_ 3y agoNo, after acquisition usually the existing product is usually shutdown or phased out while its features are absorbed into some <new thing>. With Google, everything has a huge chance of being shutdown, unless its Gmail or Search, but in both of those cases they will also continue to get worse over time.
- hot_gril 3y agoor at least become more annoyingly entangled with stuff, like Minecraft + Microsoft
- jsnell 3y agoDays since AWS last announced they were killing a devtool service: 4 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37254198 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37254198)