[dmix]

The founder has said that he underestimated the amount of work it was going to take. Anyone who has ever worked on software knows how this stuff happens. You don't truly know how long something is going to take until you dig into the hairy details of implementation.

Plus there are still tons of unknown variables at play with GDPR... even among companies who did spend sufficient time beforehand, as I quoted from the article above. So additionally, the non-obvious requirements further makes the underestimation make sense.

[greedo]

Marco Arment is the founder of Instapaper. He sold it after building it into one of the first successful iOS applications/services.

[ianamartin]

The founder hasn't said a damn thing about it.

The requirements are clear enough to figure out a solution in the last couple of years. What takes time is if you're trying to skate as close as you possibly can to the legal line and not go over it.

[mbesto]

> The founder has said that he underestimated the amount of work it was going to take.

Source?

Pinterest which owns Instapaper (2 years ago mind you!) has raised $1.47B to date. There's no legitimate excuse here.