Formerly Greplin. For those that don't know what it/they did:<p><a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/cue" rel="nofollow">http://www.crunchbase.com/company/cue</a><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/30/technology/apps-that-know-what-you-want-before-you-do.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/30/technology/apps-that-know-...</a> (July 2013)
TechCrunch posted this update: We are hearing from additional sources that they did raise that extra funding, so this is looking like a product pivot or a sale rather than a full shutdown of the company.<p>Source: <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/02/cue-greplin/" rel="nofollow">http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/02/cue-greplin/</a>
It's sad, I remember greplin had a lot of things going for them.<p>In general re: shutdowns:<p>If the economics aren't red ink or a white elephant, why not find a buyer or merge with a frenemy instead of throwing away value and customers?<p>Most shutdowns appear to me like putting 30 packs of $100 bills on a table, pouring gasoline over them and throwing a lit match while rationalizing "Everybody does it, so it's okay. Look at 'em go!"<p>For apps, building things that cost basically nothing[0] to run and letting them have sufficient time to grow on their own. Rinse. Lather. Repeat faster.<p>[0] auto-scaling & revenue covering costs.<p>--<p>"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." - Sir F. Bacon
Much sadness. Greplin was an amazing idea, but the execution was a little off for them to reach mass adoption (although I think it was ideal for a niche group of people). I think they tried to change that with their pivot to Cue, but obviously it was not successful.<p>I'll certainly remember their programming adventure challenge fondly. I hope they at least open source that, if they can't open source other parts of their software for whatever reason.
I'd be very interested in learning why Cue is calling it quits -- I really loved the concept behind their service. Has anyone managed to find their contact information?
Cue (shutdown), Don.na (pivoted), Tempo, Sunrise, Google Now, others.
Fascinating space with a lot of competition. But has any of these products gotten close to a revenue model?
Quite unfortunate.<p>I liked Greplin and it really helped me several times to find 'missing' tweets and FB posts. When they pivoted and changed the name, the search part became below par. So I stopped using it entirely.<p>I do not know why they changed the previously good generic name and the original focus. I am sure they probably had more info than I do.<p>As we create more content scattered all over, personal search is becoming more useful. I hope something good comes again.<p>Best of luck to the team on what ever they do next.
I think this is definitely a pivot, judging by the founder's YC experience (<a href="http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2011/03/05/greplin-founder-daniel-gross-on-his-amazing-story-behind-building-the-company-interview/" rel="nofollow">http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2011/03/05/greplin-founde...</a>).<p>They're very smart, I'm sure whatever they build next will be even better.
Is this the same Cue that Apple bought?<p><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/03/why-did-apple-buy-cue-because-google-now-eats-siris-lunch/" rel="nofollow">http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/03/why-did-apple-buy-cue-becau...</a>
It would be nice when a company is shuttered or acquired for it to briefly state what it did in the announcement. I saw one business last night that had been acquired by Google with no mention of its purpose.
I used Greplin quite a few times to find where I had heard something or seen a link. It was useful in that respect. But not useful enough to pay for. I never saw much of a monetization model going for them.
I find it weird that this company would be shutting down just as everyone is raving about Shel and Roberts book: Age Of Context. I might reach out to the guys at cue and see what they noticed that is leading them to shutdown/pivot to a new business.
Was sad to see what happened to Cue. It's another example of a great idea with terrible timing. How do you compete when the biggest players in the game join the race?<p>Cheers guys, there was obvious talent on your team! Interested to see what comes next...
Sad to hear, as I had discovered them recently and was interested in the problems they were tackling. I guess this isn't a complete surprise, with their Twitter account looking inactive as of late.
From what I can tell, and what I've heard from friends of the company, they shut down Cue the product, not the company.<p>The team is likely working on a new product.
For those of you that will miss Cue and Greplin, there is hope. We are about to release our cloud search feature at StartHQ.<p>Here's a screencast - search is towards the end: <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/04rrwxuuvkzpyrp/starthq.mp4" rel="nofollow">https://www.dropbox.com/s/04rrwxuuvkzpyrp/starthq.mp4</a><p>You can sign up here: <a href="https://starthq.com" rel="nofollow">https://starthq.com</a><p>Please use the Feedback form to let us know which services you'd like us to support and we will prioritize them for launch.<p>PS. For a bit of background on us, here's a blog post that was on the front page of HN on Monday <a href="http://www.arcticstartup.com/2013/09/30/starthq-capitalizes-on-googles-change-of-the-new-tab-page" rel="nofollow">http://www.arcticstartup.com/2013/09/30/starthq-capitalizes-...</a><p>PPS. Sad to see Greplin go, loved the service but was too afraid to give access to my data at all times, so ended up building our federated search which doesn't require that. Would be very interested to know more about what happened.