Harborly Is Closing Down

Re:Harborly Is Closing Down by 650REDHAIR on Friday August 14, 2015 @02:57PM (#10062083)

"Instead, a new venture that we’ve been working on as a side project has recently gained traction. Given the potential of the opportunity, it makes far more sense for us to shift our limited resources away from Harborly to focus on this new project."

Wow.

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Re:Harborly Is Closing Down by someear on Friday August 14, 2015 @03:41PM (#10062396)

Founders tend to have insider info on when a company is headed for death. Side projects are essentially an internal acknowledgement of that, but the "official" death of the company or the publicizing of the side project only takes place once the project has gained enough momentum that they know it's worth pursuing full-time. Mattermark/Refer.ly is a perfect example of that.

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Re:Harborly Is Closing Down by dmor on Friday August 14, 2015 @05:34PM (#10063085)

Actually, we announced the Referly shut down in March 2013 (1) and played with several ideas after that. Based on our most popular content, we thought we would be a tech blog for about 4 weeks... code named "Cursive".

The first commit for Mattermark was made Apr 22, 2013 and we didn't buy the domain for more than a month after that.

(1) http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2013/03/zombie-startups/

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Re:Harborly Is Closing Down by bdcravens on Friday August 14, 2015 @03:24PM (#10062267)

That's gotta make your "founding" customers happy.

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Re:Harborly Is Closing Down by function_seven on Friday August 14, 2015 @04:21PM (#10062674)

Indeed. I wish they'd tell us what that new venture is so we can know to avoid it as well. Some of these announcements read like parodies ("incredible journey", yada yada)

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Re:Harborly Is Closing Down by hga on Friday August 14, 2015 @05:06PM (#10062945)

Here's a collection of them: http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/

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