Formspring Shuts Down

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/15/formspring-the-pioneering-anonymous-qa-platform-is-shutting-down/

by briankim • 13 years ago

37 22 13 years ago

It's about time!

I'm really not surprised, Formspring was around when I was in high school and to be honest I stopped using it after day 3 because it got boring and there was nothing too interesting about it.

antidaily• 13 years ago

Thanks for being honest.

yogo• 13 years ago

Lots of respect for what these guys have done and accomplished but at the end of the day I have to ask can it pass the Shark Tank test.

unreal37• 13 years ago

Formsprint raised $14 Million? I'd like to see that business plan.

Mahn• 13 years ago

You do remember Instagram was bought for $1 billion having generated exactly 0 revenue, right?

skore2• 13 years ago

I also remember them having pretty much exactly a bazillion more users than formspring.

That is to say: the evaluation of a business plan is a completely different horse than the price at which a company is purchased later on. The former says is "we'd really like it to get to X". The latter says "we actually made it to Y".

neya2• 13 years ago

Honestly, this was coming and everyone knew it. Only an illiterate would believe in someone trying to get rich building just forms. Sigh, I wish only one thing - That more people realized that you need to solve problems instead of trying to build the next cool thing! I wish this 14 million was donated to something else that could have impacted our lives - Like a new motor technology or an electric car. I can't imagine anyone rational funding 14 million on a company that had just forms (for consumers) as its business model.

Personally, I stopped using this service the moment it started spamming my inbox with boring questions.

aptwebapps2• 13 years ago

Wufoo exited for 35 million. Although they didn't take 14 million in investment: just 118,000 according this:

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/25/wufoo-35-million-surveymonk...

renanbirck• 13 years ago

Whoa, it was still alive? I thought all the cool kids had migrated to Ask.fm.

Formspring Shuts Down

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