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by buf 1457 days ago
I'm the sole developer of www.castingcall.club and www.closingcredits.com. About 1M people use these two products a year and I've ran them for about 7 years.

While I have no plans of stopping working on them in the near term, I have listed that in the event of my death, an entrusted tech savvy person will take over these two companies.

That said, all my users have no guarantee that I'll continue to work on these products, but that's true of just about any company. I think as a solo developer I have to earn the trust of users by building in public and being a partial public figure.

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Yeah - good point, many products have been discontinued by large tech companies.

Google Reader the first that comes to mind.

Casting Call sounds like a cool service and the clients really interesting.

Just a word of rec. On mobile (Android/FF) the post titles are vertically stacked, which is tough to read for people. If you keep the text horizontally aligned and rotate 90 degrees (or dont and make horizontal) it'd make it easier to read.

Edit: Just checked out Closing Credits too. Super cool work

Thanks for the heads-up!

Some of the site is just ancient and I'm doing a big rebuild right now. I've added a note to fix that. Cheers!

Happy to help and wishing you the best!