paul's Blog

Another solid post mortem. This one focuses more on what they did wrong with their financing.

http://glinden.blogspot.com/2008/05/starting-findory-funding.html

My biggest concern with open sourcing it is twofold.

1. that it would take some energy on our parts to clean it up
2. that without support from the original developers it would be just one of the thousands of abandonware open source projects.

Hey Martin... saw your blog post on us. Thanks a lot. I'm reading up on Kakiloc right now. I'm sure its killing you too that eventually someone will crack the lbs nut.

Agreed. That was part of the reason I decided to share. Too many people get all dejected when they fail. Hell I can't say I'm super proud we shut the product down. But people shouldn't fall off the planet either and I really want to get that across.

Looking forward to your post mortem.

One big question we've had internally is should we open source the technology or license it to the parties that have shown interest. What are all of your thoughts?

I'm guessing most of you have come here through the Techcrunch post. I really mean it when I say people should share their experiences more. Too much knowledge is lost when companies or products go belly up. Why not save all of us some time. ;)