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Possible. Its also part of the trough of sorrow. Its hard to remain motivated when nobody is paying attention to you. A lot of websites I liked using that laun
by boyter 14y ago
Possible. Its also part of the trough of sorrow. Its hard to remain motivated when nobody is paying attention to you.
A lot of websites I liked using that launched at the same time I did on HN are now dead despite my asking to pay to use them. slowcop.com is one that springs to mind. I used that damn near every day and still miss it.
I wonder just how much success (small and large) can be attributed to just continuing for years till it actually works.
Maybe people just underestimate how long it takes to actually get traction.
- kevinrpope 14y agoOut of curiosity, what service/activity did slowcop offer?
- boyter 14y agoSorry about the late reply. It was somewhat similar to YSlow for Firefox. I always thought it had some potential because the implementation was so slick.
- kevinrpope 14y agoNo worries. I think Google also has a competitor to slowcop (https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/ https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/) so it could be they figured it wouldn't make any sense to try to charge.
- boyter 14y agoThey were offering all sorts of other services though. The ability to rerun after a deployment and get the comparison, daily/weekly/hourly reports and other services. I really liked the idea, but as you say I can see how they wouldn't try to compete with Google. That said though considering the Reader fiasco they might have been perfectly positioned had Google decided to shut it down.