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What happened to Diaspora?
The one startup I've been really expecting to see launch today at YC demo day was Diaspora, but I didn't see them. I know they got into YC (Remember seeing them on an article about that), what's going on?
- dangrossman 14y agohttp://blog.diasporafoundation.org/ http://blog.diasporafoundation.org/ Read yesterday's post.
- volaski 14y agowhy didn't they demo today?
- trafficlight 14y agoWhat a terrible idea. Makr.io is a new kind of meme generator That really misses the point of what a meme is.
- dangrossman 14y agoTell that to http://memegenerator.net/ http://memegenerator.net/, which gets over 20 million PVs a month. http://www.quantcast.com/memegenerator.net http://www.quantcast.com/memegenerator.net
- trafficlight 14y agoI know that exists, and I've used it myself, but makr.io seems to be missing the point of what memegenerator.net is used for.
- cyansmoker 14y ago"Login with Facebook"
- logical42 14y agowhoever is responsible for that site should know that the blog button at the top of the page does not work.
- jmathai 14y agoI'm really confused. Is Makr open source? If it isn't then how is it a companion to Diaspora? Also, you can't realistically expect to build a company (around Makr) and still have any time left over for Diaspora...unless you're Jack Dorsey. Again, just confused.
- simantel 14y agoIt is open source, yes: https://github.com/makrio/makrio https://github.com/makrio/makrio But agreed, it seems like they're abandoning their core product. Not that it's gotten much traction in the last two years, but if they were going to abandon it, I wish they'd just say as much.
- dchuk 14y agoIt appears they're desperately attempting to spend all of their time working on quirky ideas that will never make a dime
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- Joeboy 14y agoDiaspora, the software, works reasonably well, although it obviously suffers from a shortage of users. You can sign up at eg. http://diasp.org http://diasp.org. Dunno what's going on with Diaspora, the company.
- gamzer 14y agoIn the spirit of "why don't they just": Why don't they just focus on marketing Diaspora instead of investing time in companion products? Are the companion products intended to drive users to Diaspora?
- Leynos 14y agoIt's mildly amusing that makr.io (their YC side project) has a "sign up with Facebook" button, but no "sign up with Diaspora" option.
- finalcut 14y agoHow is Makr.io even a real product concept? It appears to be a very limited version of the G+ image editor.. or any other meme maker in existence but with "SHARING" (remixing) Am I missing something?
- AznHisoka 14y agoIt's a hobby project, that's all it is. Not a real business to be taken seriously. Give them a few years, and they will be looking for a corporate day job. Nobody can live off venture capital for the rest of their lives.
- dj2stein9 14y agoThey made a fatal mistake in building a Rails app. That led them down the wrong path for an ecosystem that needs to be a decentralized protocol. See tent.io, they've got the right idea. Not sure if they'll be successful, but work in this area needs to be at the protocol level, not at the application level. And as soon as I heard what they were doing I knew they were toast.