If you haven't seen the original post yet, here it is http://blog.getprismatic.com/next-chapter/<p>Prismatic is basically shutting down its news apps.<p>I remember signing up for it a few years ago, used it a couple of times but then never went back to it and stuck with twitter as my news feed.<p>Why do you think Prismatic failed to gain traction?
I think it did gain some traction and had a lot of users. It was a very nice app imo, and quite useful, in spite of occasional weirdness. I think the problem was a lack of business model and/or 'hockey stick growth' that would bring in money sufficient to break even/break out.<p>They did write some very useful open source Clojure code which will live on. I am very surprised one of the BigCos (Google, Twitter) didn't acquihire them - a very talented team.
Did you mean to submit this as an "Ask HN" ?<p>Originally submitted here:
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10721178" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10721178</a>