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Re:OhLife is shutting down by dabent on Saturday September 20, 2014 @09:08PM (#8346028)
I have 1161 entries dating back to my first on August 18, 2010. I really love the service, but understand if they have to shut it down.

Thanks to the founders for keeping such an easy-to-use service around for so long. I'm off to find an alternative. My list of features isn't long. A daily email with a reminder and a previous post from the last year, month or week. It's that simplicity that kept me using the service.

Re:OhLife is shutting down by dshah on Saturday September 20, 2014 @11:17PM (#8346188)
Interestingly, my usage dates back to around the same time (Sep, 2010) and the list of features that I use/need is identical. Just a daily email reminder with a previous post from the past year/month.

If the founder(s) of OhLife are reading this thread, I'd like to make an offer: I'll pay to host the infrastructure/servers (up to $1,000/month) as a contribution to the community. My guess is, a lot of people are using this app and would like to keep it around.

Ping me @dharmesh on twitter if you're interested.

Re:OhLife is shutting down by vpontis on Saturday September 20, 2014 @11:40PM (#8346216)
Maybe a crowdsourced model might actually do better than a freemium model. You're right, it's the simplicity that makes it so nice. So they don't really need to iterate on features at this point.
Re:OhLife is shutting down by eli on Sunday September 21, 2014 @01:30AM (#8346368)
Simply maintaining a web application unfortunately requires a fair bit more than just paying the hosting bill, even if you're not adding features.
Re:OhLife is shutting down by dalanmiller on Sunday September 21, 2014 @11:00PM (#8349050)
Will you send out a tweet or something if you get ahold of them?
Re:OhLife is shutting down by nhangen on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @03:05PM (#8357439)
I have offered to buy but they have not returned my emails, so we're going to build our own version and offer an import feature. Will be housed at http://everymoment.me as soon as we have something ready to go.
Re:OhLife is shutting down by inakig on Thursday September 25, 2014 @08:34PM (#8370636)
Please lety me know when you do!! email me [email protected]
Re:OhLife is shutting down by nhangen on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @06:35PM (#8398239)
They never replied to email or social message, so we're building a replacement that will allow people to import Ohlife entries. We plan to make them a little more secure as well.
Re:OhLife is shutting down by heyyeah on Sunday September 21, 2014 @08:33AM (#8346980)
Yes, thanks to the creators of ohlife. I used it a lot especially on holidays.

Now looking for alternatives too. So far Penzu is looking like the winner. It seems to have everything ohlife had plus apps.

Re:OhLife is shutting down by aya72 on Monday September 22, 2014 @06:06AM (#8349914)
Try maildiary.net It has the same features.
Re:OhLife is shutting down by aya72 on Monday September 22, 2014 @06:07AM (#8349915)
and you can import your ohlife-diary to start over.
Re:OhLife is shutting down by lolWireshark on Sunday September 21, 2014 @01:28AM (#8346365)
280daily may be of interest to you.
Re:OhLife is shutting down by dashakol on Sunday September 21, 2014 @05:49PM (#8348444)
Neither 280daily or Penzu can get even close to the clean, fast, beautiful and simple interface of Ohlife. Specially It's large readable clean fonts. Right now offline Secretpad seems like a viable alternative. or just the our old beloved notepad.