..until a big company acquires this new startup and kills their product again.

This is one more problem with the cloud computing era.

In the 90's, you could continue to use a product even after it was discontinued. I remember reading that Steve Wozniack is still an Eudora mail user. The last time I heard about Eudora was maybe 15 years ago. You can't say the same about the last startup product.

If you cut me a large enough check I'll install my cloud app in your data center, or sell you an off line version.

/notajoke