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by mmmcookies 3582 days ago
I worked on Readability for its launch. I remember they had difficulty monetising it. But more importantly, the firm that built it, Arc90 (now Postlight), was acquired by SFX a few years ago who has no interest in that space. I'm surprised it has stayed up this long.
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I suspect it coasted purely on momentum -- hosting fees or such.

The parser/converter has actually stood up amazingly well considering it's seen little or no updating.