This is shameless plug, but...<p>The startup that I'm at is working in a similar space. We're devoting a lot of resources to being able to easily search (from Google) your links, as well as share them. May be useful if you used Kippt, <a href="https://www.kifi.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.kifi.com/</a><p>Disclaimer: Again, I work there, but I really like what we are building. :)
Kippt is a great product and Brian is very fortunate to have you guys join his team. And your talents will be multiplied at a place like Coinbase.<p>Congrats and best of luck.
I'm sad to see Kippt go. I've been an avid user for about a year now.<p>Can you comment on what led to this change? Inbound traffic looks like it's still pretty solid. Was it just that not enough people were converting to paid plans?
Checked out the demo, looks great! I am sorry it didn't work out like you hoped, but I'm glad you landed in a nice spot.<p>Would you mind sharing your lessons learned? Such as, why you think it "failed" to take off like you hoped? What were your plans/expectations vs what actually happened? Any critical mistakes or major external factors which impeded success? Anything you would have done differently?<p>Thanks, and good luck in your new venture!
Change is always good, whenever it happens. Success or failure is a relative thing in this world anyway.<p>I am just a user, somewhat technically savvy. Back in the days when new services were coming up frequently, all free for anyone to use; I had a feeling that this service is not going to go anywhere. Here you are few years later.<p>The business of letting people save bookmarks, tag, share, are long gone, and so are the services with them.
It's always sad to hear when an elegant and useful application like Kippt has to be more-or-less abandoned. Still, congrats to Karri and Jori for joining Coinbase, where their style and keen eyes will certainly do some good.<p>As for Kippt, does anyone have a good alternative? In the event it does get shutdown, breaks, or some other event occurs?
Sad but not unexpected. Kippt has always felt like the kind of service that's nice and everybody likes but has a hard time getting any real traction. I'm sure being example site #1 on the official Bootstrap page was a good driver of traffic but sometimes the product just isn't vital enough.
Sorry to hear this. Kippt is a great product that I use almost daily. Thanks for keeping it open for a while and not shuttering immediately. Do you guys have a timeline for when you'll eventually take it offline?<p>For anyone looking for alternatives, my startup is working on something similar (share + chat what you find with your team: <a href="http://piethis.com" rel="nofollow">http://piethis.com</a>
Just yesterday I was discussing with a friend how we haven't seen anything new in Kippt. I have been one of the first users of Kippt. Somehow the product was becoming slow for me. And I was not sure where the team and the product was headed.<p>Kippt helped me a lot with organizing things that I share. I hope this was a good journey for the Kippt team and I wish them all the very best for their future endeavor.
That's some <a href="http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com" rel="nofollow">http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com</a> material right there.