1. Got tired after working on it for a year, mostly on my own. I felt the need to join a team doing something bigger.
2. Ran out of money
3. Wanted to relocate to Silicon Valley, but as a foreigner it would have been too complicated to move with my startup.
4. The project was too ambitious. A full blown email client is hard to write.
5. I was a Windows guy a that time, but all potential early adopters were OS X users. Though we did had OS X support, the app wasn't as nice or polished as it should have been.
It's interesting because we started working on this roughly at the same time as the Sparrow team. In the end, they released way before us because they focused on a narrower niche (simple gmail client for OS X, instead of the cross-platform email + todo list manager that we were doing). They won :)
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It looks quite interesting, I wonder what went wrong.
Several things:
1. Got tired after working on it for a year, mostly on my own. I felt the need to join a team doing something bigger.
2. Ran out of money
3. Wanted to relocate to Silicon Valley, but as a foreigner it would have been too complicated to move with my startup.
4. The project was too ambitious. A full blown email client is hard to write.
5. I was a Windows guy a that time, but all potential early adopters were OS X users. Though we did had OS X support, the app wasn't as nice or polished as it should have been.
It's interesting because we started working on this roughly at the same time as the Sparrow team. In the end, they released way before us because they focused on a narrower niche (simple gmail client for OS X, instead of the cross-platform email + todo list manager that we were doing). They won :)