Nobody saw this coming from 5 miles away Pepega
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Saturday, July 6, 2019
Rabbit is dead
I'd say RIP
but they fucked themselves
And even though we hadn’t figured out monetization in a rights restrictive market - we had a planI'd pay this guy money, right now
to read his plan
or even for him to go onto some podcast, and talk about it for 60-90 minutes
I'm so morbidly curious what their vision was
team of 35 people
I dont know how people can comment theyre surprised with a straight face
Like literally
Rabbit has had 0 monitization for years
They get constant site overhauls that make the site worse
Rabbit wasn't even the same vision as what it launched as
Rabbit was nice in some ways, in a lot of ways
Maybe now someone will make a new version of rabbit that isnt shit
Because theyd have people willing to pay for something
See, the question at the root of this is what do people WANT from rabbit
what are the three features you must have
how important is the switching though?
switching who controls
passing the remote
Ok
Even if
You made a rough version
That didnt run on rabbit but you could switch who was sharing a browser tab
Thatd be fine
I never understood
See, I like and I don't like that part of it,
I like the low barrier to entry, and the fact that anyone can do it
but I don't like that it lacks the same abilities I'd get if I was just streaming something locally to Twitch or whatever
Why rabbit had servers for hosting and didnt just tab share
That would have saved so much money
I think there's a tech reason there Reggie
four million monthly users all through word of mouthMax, I want this guy to do a blog, or podcast, or videos, or something
I need to know what was in his mind
Well they tried
To make it social media
At the end
they tried a lot of things
I always figured
but I need to know, what the vision had evolved into
Their changes were attempts at being aquired by someone
Just because they couldnt afford to run the site
Which actually seems very plausible
they did Max
Google Spaces
more for sharing audio/music
but iirc, they did video too
it was trying to do too much
kind of like Discord is trying to do too much
Slack was non gamer discord
The company hadn’t invested in marketing or press ever. In fact, it had chosen not to do press releases around major funding or product release events, so no one knew who we were.