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by melted 3775 days ago
User counts were so pitifully small in those projects that they were destaffed for years before they were shut down.
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mschuster91 3775 days ago
Reader had iirc at least a million users, that's only small when you compare it with FB/Instagram/Twitter/Youtube/Snapchat.

Most startups would kill for a million highly engaged users.

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melted 3773 days ago
I believe G+ had 300M+ users at the time, and G+ was still considered a failure. 1M is a rounding error by Google standards. They can get 1M users by releasing _anything_ that does _anything_ at this point.
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