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Re:RethinkDB is shutting down by debaserab2 on Thursday October 06, 2016 @10:16AM (#12652598)
I think his cynicism is warranted. This is a forum, and one that is subject to trends and favorites. Anytime RethinkDB pops up on HN (or stripe for that matter) it seems to be met with unchecked praise.

And yet here we are with a failed product. I think it's OK to ask why and consider its shortfallings. Obviously there was something, and I don't think it's fair to completely coast over the technology side of things and blame it on "marketing".

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Re:RethinkDB is shutting down by pluma on Thursday October 06, 2016 @03:46PM (#12655459)
> marketing

I think RethinkDB's marketing was excellent. The unchecked praise you mention is likely in no small part also a result of this.

However I don't think that means the technology was the problem. There are far more broken and misarchitected pieces of technology that are financially successful.

What exactly went wrong is speculative until we see the insights Slava promised, but it seems the failure was entirely financial: they had a great product, they brilliantly marketed it, but that didn't translate into sustainable revenue.

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Re:RethinkDB is shutting down by bunderbunder on Thursday October 06, 2016 @03:14PM (#12655224)
Could aways go for the Lisp Plea and say that the technology is so amazing that the hoi polloi simply can't fathom its amazingness.
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