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Shutdownify, the world's first "Shutdown Notice as a Service" company, is no more. Although an ever increasing number of failed startups need to post shutdown messages, it turns out they don't usually have the money to pay others to do it for them. "It is a stinging irony that we now must use our own product to post this shutdown notice. Shutdownify's last meal is its own dog food."
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2015, @03:46PM
C'mon people! Let's give these guys a break. They had a vision for something great and they tried their best to make it happen. Not every business succeeds, in fact almost many fail. They had the guts, the vision and the nerve to be great.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2015, @04:50PM
BTW, the above is a reproduction the running "house troll" post made (usually within 20 minutes) of each new story that appeared on fuckedcompany.com [wikipedia.org], a Slashdot-style blog on failing companies that Philip Kaplan started in 2000 and ran for a few years until he got tired of it. It reproduces the spelling typo in the headline and the grammatical error ("almost many fail") in the content body, as those were part of the joke.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2015, @07:14PM
"Slashdot-style" is being a bit charitable; if I recall correctly, the comments section was called the "Happy Fun Slander Corner". However, it was a good way of keeping score of the companies, small and large, that faltered and failed in the early-2000's bubble. While I don't miss how crass it was (and I remember that the canonical name for the website was "doomcompany.com"), we desperately need a "cloud-startup-economy deadpool" to track the failures of these startups (and giant companies who want to emulate the asinine workplace attitudes and hyperactive stress generation of startups). At least it would offset the smarm of TechCrunch and their ilk.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday August 22 2015, @09:45PM
Just use twitter for this.
Wait... what?
(grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford