Heartbreaks are bad, but have you ever experienced the pain of your favorite app shutting down?
It happens more than wed like, and it doesnt ever get easier.
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But before all this, there was one and only Vine.
Dom Hofmann, Rus Yusupov, and Colin Kroll launched the company in 2012.
The same year, Twitter acquired itbefore it was even launched.
By 2015, it had more than 200 million active users.
Vine gave birth to celebrities like Lele Pons, Logan Paul, and Jus Reign.
In 2019,Twitter discontinued the archiveas well.
Given the success it had, we cant say Vine was ahead of its time.
Hofmann launched his new short video app, Byte, in 2020.
He sold the app in 2021, to a company founded by former Vine star Brendon McNerney.
It wasrelaunched as Clash in October 2021.
It was like the Wordle craze, multiplied by 100,000.
It hit the top charts on both mobile app stores, and earned a ton of money.
But in 2014, its developer Dong Nguyen feltguilty about the games addictive nature, and pulled it.
The game still lives on in many of itsclones.
Google Inbox
This one hit me hard.
And Google was cruel enough to announce itduringan Apple event in 2018.
Foursquare
Lets not be mistaken.
Foursquare the company still exists, but Foursquare the social web link has faded into oblivion.
In 2009, Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai first launched the service to compete with Twitter.
In its initial years, Foursquare allowed you to share your location alongside pictures with your friends.
Over the years, Foursquare has turned itself into a formidable enterprise service provider for geospatial data.
Too bad it couldnt keep its social online grid alive, though.
Sunrise Calendar
Theres no dearth of calendar apps for mobile and the web.
It was first launched in 2013 by Pierre Valade and Jeremy Le Van.
Two years later, Microsoft acquired it for more than $100 million.
That’s one heck of a mixed bag.
He likes to say “Bleh.
That’s one heck of a mixed bag.
He likes to say “Bleh.”
