| Cofounder here again. I just wanted to say that while we’re sad to shut down and definitely didn’t accomplish everything we wanted to we are deeply grateful for having had the chance to build something significant and get past a 1.0. Our original crowdfunding round and supporters - almost all of whom found us on HN, Y Combinator, and our seed investors helped make that possible (plus of course all our open source contributors, alpha and beta users, early customers, and even the people who filed GitHub issues panicked because their sites had just gone down). Most of our team worked together on Tent (protocol for decentralized social networking) before this which no VC would get behind. So we know how much it sucks to have a great idea that no one will pay for you to build. We’re very grateful to HN for the opportunity to build something so cool. Neither of those projects would have been possible without HN. I know for a fact that we only got meetings, term sheets, into YC, and more on the strength of the HN comments and later the GitHub stars. Before we had a working product we could at least say, “hey, these people all say they want what we’re trying to build” and that got us in the door. We had lots of different proof points to show investors and even customers, but the most important thing was the number of upvotes and enthusiasm of the comments. Thank you all for being so open minded and supporting our work. We literally wouldn’t have been allowed to do it without you. Hope to have something even better to share with you all one day. |