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Twitter acquires Clutch.io
- indiecore 14y ago>We’re happy to announce that over the coming weeks we will make available everything you need to run Clutch.io on your own servers, so that even after our hosted service is no longer running, you can continue to operate it on your own. Everyone take note. This is how you handle an aquihire correctly
- teamlaft 14y agoAgreed. Seems like everyone is a winner given how they are handling things.
- BaconJuice 14y agoCongrats to the Team at Clutch.io :)
- brackin 14y agoCongrats, this is interesting because Eric Florenzano one of the co-founders co-founded Convore.
- mulligan 14y agoactually, both erics
- k-mcgrady 14y agoCongratulations to the team! They had a really cool product and the way they are handling the acquisition is great. Glad they aren't just killing it.
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- simonw 14y agoCongrats to the two Erics - and I love the way you're handling the transition and existing customers, seems very classy.
- mceachen 14y agoIt's inline with how those guys are. Classy hackers.
- mibbitier 14y agoI don't want to moan, but I wish we could get out of this mindset of reporting "company X acquires company Y" when in fact it's a case of company Y shutting down and the founders going to work at company X. Congrats anyway.
- joshu 14y agoUnless some money was paid to the investors. You don't know.
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- fearless 14y agoThe problem with your statement is that it's incorrect. The founder's comment below implies investors made money in this acquisition.
- lacker 14y agoThey didn't have investors. This is false.
- joshu 14y agoThey thank their investors in the post. Please don't present your opinions as if they are fact. As an angel investor, I rarely see "the team just got jobs and we're calling it acquisitions" and more often "we paid off the investors minimally and got good job offers."
- ericflo 14y agoWe took good care of all our investors
- mibbitier 14y agoSorry, that wasn't really my point. If I started a company up, had no investment, then decided to go work at bigco on the understanding I could say they acquired my company, then it's all quite meaningless. It's just a shame to see so many deadpooled companies and products through acquihires spun as "yay success!". Maybe I'm just getting old ;) As I say though, congrats on the new job.
- ed 14y agoWhoa! Congrats to the Erics, awesome news, guys!
- mikek 14y agoAre there any alternatives to Clutch.io?
- tylerneylon 14y agoSomething similar is appgrok.com which offers server-side control of bundled files, including nib files. It doesn't have a built-in experiment framework, but you could mix AppGrok with analytics to get some experiments-without-app-store-submission working, if that's your goal. (I'm a developer at AppGrok.)
- AndyD1st 14y agoWe just posted a comment explaining our alternative. Ping us at founders <at> leanplum <dot> com if you want to chat.
- zmb 14y agoTake a look at our side project Switchboard: easy A/B testing for mobile https://github.com/KeepSafe/Switchboard https://github.com/KeepSafe/Switchboard It's open source My co-founder Philipp is talking about this project at next week's Silicon Valley iOS Dev Meetup http://www.meetup.com/sviphone/events/38752252/ http://www.meetup.com/sviphone/events/38752252/
- dmh002 14y agoswrve.com A/B testing for mobile and social apps
- mdg 14y agoi just farted
- dotmanish 14y agoWhen this happens, I personally would love to see a blog post by the founders on how the soon-to-be-shut business was actually doing, so that current competitors and other startup-watchers can learn. You're anyways leaving the space open, so better to leave the lessons behind.
- js4all 14y agoCongrats and thanks for keeping the idea up; a noble gesture.
- dave5104 14y agoIs it just me, or does there seem to be a plethora of companies named in the form something.io nowadays? Feels like it's the next version of Flickr and all the diminutives missing that 'e'.
- oinksoft 14y ago.io seems solidified as branding indicating that the business is oriented to developers, being a niche of "B2B." It may feel like a fad but the TLD is valuable for reasons other than availability, unlike deliberate misspellings you cite such as Flickr.
- Aaronontheweb 14y agoIf I may ask, what issues were the Cluch.io guys having building a sustainable business around A/B testing for mobile?
- AndyD1st 14y agoWe’re a new TechStars company who’ve built a super simple mobile A/B testing tool. Could be a great alternative to Clutch. If you’d like to try it out, or give us feedback or ideas, ping us at founders <at> leanplum <dot> com.
- mahmoudimus 14y agoCongratulations to the two Erics!
- aneth4 14y agoWhile we can't blame any individual team taking an aquihire deal, I have to wonder if their prevalence these days is undermining future startups and sending potential customers back to an old school mindset of going with large vendors who are less likely to shut down. After all, why work with a company made up of a few 25 year olds testing out a market, who may "pivot" any time, and will shut down their product when some big company wants to hire them? Seems like a justifiable choice to go with an inferior product from a profitable established company which is much less likely to disappear in two years. Even as a startup guy, I'm hesitant to build on startup products. YC Startups may be even worse in this context as they are frequently picked off and shut down, and the founders are young and not necessarily in the product for the long haul.