TextDrive shuts down

Re:TextDrive shuts down by odonnellryan on Monday March 03, 2014 @01:24PM (#7335371)

It's sad to see that happen to a company, but where can we find information about what they did exactly, and where it went wrong?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:TextDrive shuts down by billturner on Monday March 03, 2014 @01:47PM (#7335535)

I collected quite a few events that have happened in the last few months that lead to today: http://billturner.github.io/2014/02/28/whats-happened-to-tex...

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:TextDrive shuts down by chimeracoder on Monday March 03, 2014 @02:08PM (#7335683)

That doesn't really seem to paint Joyent in a very favorable light.

IMHO, it wasn't a good idea for TextDrive to sell lifetime subscriptions, but if Joyent knew that when they purchased TextDrive, they should have continued to honor them.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:TextDrive shuts down by foltz on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @07:03PM (#7350887)

TextDrive and Joyent were founded by the same people. Joyent continued to sell "lifetime" plans after it consumed TextDrive.

Here's a screenshot ( http://cl.ly/UFhp ) from one of their lifetime offers. Of note: "How long will it last? As long as we exist." At that point, early 2006, TextDrive was a Joyent company. Joyent still exists.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:TextDrive shuts down by oriste on Monday March 03, 2014 @01:36PM (#7335460)

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7318940

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:TextDrive shuts down by oomkiller on Monday March 03, 2014 @01:29PM (#7335415)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TextDrive

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:TextDrive shuts down by pbreit on Monday March 03, 2014 @01:55PM (#7335595)

The Wikipedia accounts of both TextDrive and Joyent do not sound accurate to me. Joyent was started a year or so (early 2005) before it acquired TextDrive (late 2005).

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:TextDrive shuts down by jacquesct on Monday March 03, 2014 @09:36PM (#7338081)

Both wikipedia records need some good rewriting.

[ Parent | on HN ]