Possible. Its also part of the trough of sorrow. Its hard to remain motivated when nobody is paying attention to you.
A lot of websites I liked using that launched at the same time I did on HN are now dead despite my asking to pay to use them. slowcop.com is one that springs to mind. I used that damn near every day and still miss it.
I wonder just how much success (small and large) can be attributed to just continuing for years till it actually works.
Maybe people just underestimate how long it takes to actually get traction.
Sorry about the late reply. It was somewhat similar to YSlow for Firefox. I always thought it had some potential because the implementation was so slick.
They were offering all sorts of other services though. The ability to rerun after a deployment and get the comparison, daily/weekly/hourly reports and other services.
I really liked the idea, but as you say I can see how they wouldn't try to compete with Google. That said though considering the Reader fiasco they might have been perfectly positioned had Google decided to shut it down.
A lot of websites I liked using that launched at the same time I did on HN are now dead despite my asking to pay to use them. slowcop.com is one that springs to mind. I used that damn near every day and still miss it.
I wonder just how much success (small and large) can be attributed to just continuing for years till it actually works.
Maybe people just underestimate how long it takes to actually get traction.