It crushes me to hear that they loved my software, and I’m taking it away

http://www.sideprojectprofit.com/saying-goodbye-taskshot/

by cvshane • 12 years ago

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nfoz• 12 years ago

Why don't you just leave it up and running? Open-source it, let people run it on their own servers?

spcoll• 12 years ago

I wish more abandoned projects were open-sourced instead of merely shut down.

Like Google Wave, which became Apache Wave after Google lost interest in the product...

cvshane8• 12 years ago

I could open source it - but honestly, if only 3 people are using it right now, do you think it'll have enough traction for any dev to maintain it?

michh2• 12 years ago

I'm guessing there might be someone willing to take over the project for free (if he's abandoning it anyway) and invest the time in actually getting the word out and improving it? Who knows.

Ask for a small percentage of profits or something. The author can't lose more than he already is by completely abandoning it and letting the domain expire. If only because when someone else is keeping it running, he could still use it himself.

cvshane8• 12 years ago

I'd love that - are you volunteering? ;-)

michh2• 12 years ago

Sadly, I couldn't right now but I bet there's someone out there that'd be willing to give it a go. Maybe an "Ask HN"-post?

mpnordland• 12 years ago

Darn, this would have fit my needs exactly. Well, I'm just one person, but the way it's described it would fit my workflow pretty good.

revnja2• 12 years ago

This looks like it would serve the needs of my small team pretty well. We really just need a list of everyone on our team and what tasks they have assigned to them, not really any due date management needed. Please consider open sourcing it to run in our Intranet or something similar! We would use TaskShot!

cvshane8• 12 years ago

Oh man, I love how now that I've decided to kill it I'm urged to bring it back. I proves how much I suck at marketing that the most press I get about it is about it retiring. Shoot me a PM on how to contact you and I'll let you know if I open source it.

revnja2• 12 years ago

Maybe I am missing something, but I'm not sure if I can PM or not -- hoping you see this, if so you can contact me via email at my username at gmail dot com. Would be really cool to run a copy of this in-house.

EGreg2• 12 years ago

Why not at least pay the $10 for the domain?

cvshane8• 12 years ago

Why keep throwing $10/year down the drain? I know it's not much, but it's still a waste.

EGreg2• 12 years ago

Because people are using your product an relying on it. They can contribute $100 for the year if you really wanted. $10 to pay and $90 for your time lol

dota168• 12 years ago

A Sidestrapper is ½ developer, ½ marketer, ½ bootstrapper

As a fellow programmer, i'm disappointed with the math.

whatshisface• 12 years ago

A person who develops is not 100% developer. You can have more than 100% of a job by cutting into your personal time. ;)

cvshane8• 12 years ago

Haha, I'm trying to be funny, guess it didn't work! :)

sharemywin• 12 years ago

why not put it on flippa.com even if you get $100 for it, it works out for your customers.

cvshane8• 12 years ago

Hmmm...do people actually buy websites that have $0 revenue on flippa?

rtperson• 12 years ago

I liked this article, but, to use journalist lingo, he "buries the lede" a little.

"It’s also tough because since breaking the news to our current set of 3 customers, I’ve received very positive feedback..."

A grand total of three customers. This isn't like Google Wave going away. Or, then again, maybe it is. After all, he had three more customers than they did.

edanm• 12 years ago

Hey! I'll have you know I loved Google Wave. :)

Kidding aside, Google Wave is an interesting case because it's a product that actually was very popular, just in a use case that was completely different than what it was intended for, and in a way that didn't serve Google. Many startups/companies were using Google Wave as a simple project collaboration tool, and honestly, I still think it was one of the better tools out there for that, and I haven't found a decent replacement.

cvshane8• 12 years ago

Haha, I completely agree with you - which is why it's so silly I'm feeling like I'm letting people down - it's just 3 people. I need to get over it and move on.

indlebe• 12 years ago

Why is the title of the post so different than the article title? I thought it was an erronous link at first.

cvshane8• 12 years ago

I pulled a quote from the article, didn't mean to mislead - sorry!

It crushes me to hear that they loved my software, and I’m taking it away

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