#gracefulexit

Overv.io’s artful data portability pledge

From Overv.io‘s home page:

No strings attached

We store all critical information on GitHub

These are your projects. You get to keep your data and we can’t lose it even if our servers get mauled by a grizzly bear.

No commitment required

You are free to only move a part of your team to overv.io. People who hate progress can just keep using GitHub directly. Everyone else gets to keep using their…

Why Kevin Didn’t Open Source His Failed Startup

Kevin Menard wound down his Mogotest service after five years. He wrote a thoughtful explanation of why he did’t release his code into the wild under an open source license. It came down to a few things. 

IP. Untangling third-party code to clear licenses was a big job.

Privacy promises. Some customer data had been hard-coded and would need to be discovered and removed.  

Cost. Nobody was willing…

Aereo: a Graceful Pause (While The Fight Continues)

Staying legal is a strong reason to change course. Aereo, smarting from a painful SCOTUS ruling, chose one path short of shutting: the graceful pause.

Here’s Aereo CEO and founder Chet Canoja in a blog post from the day the Supreme Court ruling came down. Listen for his tone, the crisp actionable information, and discussion of the path forward.

A Letter to Our Consumers: Standing Together for…

A model Product Retirement Project Outline #prodmgmt #eol

So Your Product Is Going To Die. Here’s What Happens Next.from Phil Wolff

Your product has six weeks to live. Where do you go from here? Here’s my project outline, a rough sequence from the early decisions, through the choices that shape how you dispose of the product, to the detailed scoping, rollout, and responding to the shut down.

It’s a draft, of…