Treehouse Hits The Deadpool; Founder Off To Google

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/01/treehouse-deadpool/

by thankuz • 15 years ago

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pclark• 15 years ago

So close, yet so far. Sucks.

jimboyoungblood3• 15 years ago

We were indeed the first to really identify the market for mobile photo sharing.

Really, indeed. I built an iPhone photo sharing app about two years ago (It was my self-assigned "How to program in Objective C" project), and there were at least several others that came before mine.

tghw• 15 years ago

Don't forget MMS. That came long before...

jimboyoungblood3• 15 years ago

Yup, as well as Mobog, Natuba, BuzzFeed, circa 2005.

sharpshoot• 15 years ago

I think what he means here is, see the market opportunity and raise money against that, not just build it.

jimboyoungblood3• 15 years ago

Even if that's what he meant, it's still false.

jpark• 15 years ago

Even with that definition, there was Shozu, which was founded in 2001 and raised over $36M. At least by 2005, they had significant traction with their mobile photo sharing tools.

robspychala• 15 years ago

http://snaplog.com, http://clowdy.com and probably dozens more.

fookyong• 15 years ago

It would be great to hear a post-mortem on why the founders think they failed to get traction. I remember the Techcrunch launch post being very positive (not that these things are determining factors, but still).

I wonder if we will be hearing the same thing about Path a year from now? The two services seem very similar.

JJMalina• 15 years ago

I remember signing up for Treehouse after that TC post and thought it was really cool. Tried to get my friends on it, but that failed (most people didn't have iphones at the time) so the app was useless for me.

dannyr• 15 years ago

Will the other cofounder be joining Google too or just Chris?

drndown2007• 15 years ago

Is it just me, or are we seeing a lot of hip new Web 2.0 sites that are going under lately? Is lack of an actual business model the culprit?

robryan• 15 years ago

Maybe you are just hearing about more of those that fail instead of them going quietly. If the majority of "hip new web 2.0" startups weren't failing in one way or anything the VC/Angel financing business would be pretty much printing money.

Treehouse Hits The Deadpool; Founder Off To Google

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