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May 4, 2008

RSS Reader News Alloy To Join The Deadpool

Duncan Riley

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RSS Reader News Alloy is to shut due to a lack of funding. Michael first reviewed the site in January 2006 and it was mentioned again in a round up of RSS Readers later that year.

The following email was sent to News Alloy users:

You received this email because you are registered user of News Alloy Project - Web2.0 based Feed Reader. (http://www.newsalloy.com/)

Bad times finally came, my contract with our hosting provider is over so i will shut down the site in a couple of days, please grab your OPML for your convenience.

Future plans:

If you are interested for project to stay alive and get it under your wing please contact me, we need new dedicated hosting (quite powerful).
In case you want to get full ownership of the domain and grab all sources feel free to ask. It will cost not that much as fat cats are asking.

Also i’ve developed new version about 6 months ago which is half ready - News Alloy 2.0.
It looks much brighter, faster, pure Javascript UI, rich featured and impressive look and feel. But to make it complete i need funding. Thats for sure.
If You want to have look - please let me know to get an invitation.

If none is interested i will put other project on the top of News Alloy domain.

Please keep in mind that News Alloy project was developed by one single person who was in charge of everything - coding, design, promo and PR.

Now I’m open for interesting contracts and custom jobs in the area of web development and system administration.

Thank you for staying with us,
Volodymyr Danylyuk,
Project Developer and Maintainer

I’ve never used News Alloy before so I’m not sure that it’s worth saving, but it might be a cheap entry into a ready made startup, or a decent value add for an existing company.

Until its saved, News Alloy joins the TechCrunch Deadpool.

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  1. der presseschauer » News Alloy soll begraben werden

    May 5th, 2008 at 12:12 am

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  1. Oh Really

    May 4th, 2008 at 6:01 pm

    Another one bites the dust… Mike maybe you could invest in them? interested

  2. damon

    May 4th, 2008 at 6:12 pm

    dumb name

  3. Alex H

    May 4th, 2008 at 6:15 pm

    Lack of funding?

    Come on.

    What about a lack of an actual business model?

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  5. Scott K

    May 4th, 2008 at 7:08 pm

    I’m still wondering how Bloglines makes money.

  6. Publius

    May 4th, 2008 at 7:36 pm

    Looks interesting as a tool, even with no biz model. I’d open source it if I were the guy running it, better than complete deadpool…

  7. Joshua Walters

    May 4th, 2008 at 7:41 pm

    I have a feeling you might have just saved a company.

    Surely someone here will see this and be interested.

    Its not a sure thing of course, but I would say you raised awareness in the right field.

  8. damon

    May 4th, 2008 at 7:44 pm

    it’s not a company, it’s a project

  9. Wes

    May 4th, 2008 at 7:54 pm

    It would be interesting to know how many users they were for News Alloy. That way there could be some interest, I think.

  10. Evan

    May 4th, 2008 at 9:01 pm

    Wes: the stats are on the homepage

  11. Duncan Riley

    May 4th, 2008 at 9:06 pm

    Alex H #3
    one in the same :-)

    Damon #8
    we call those bootstrapped startups :-)

  12. lordtime

    May 4th, 2008 at 9:43 pm

    When i started it was lack of BM, V2 has certain BM :)
    but this is not for your eyes and ears guys

  13. phani

    May 4th, 2008 at 10:23 pm

    hi..

    I used newsalloy and i can tell u one thing for sure, besides Google Reader there is no other web based rss reader out there better than newsalloy… not even bloglines…

    If someone can fund this project… it is definitely worth doing it..

  14. Kevin

    May 4th, 2008 at 10:49 pm

    lack of innovation..

  15. Wes

    May 4th, 2008 at 11:11 pm

    Thanks Evan #10, I have seen the stats now.

  16. Macca

    May 5th, 2008 at 2:20 am

    How about a comment on the Deadpool status of former storage darling OMNIDRIVE?

    Refer:
    http://www.readwriteweb.com/ar.....p#comments

    and an investors perspective on Omnidrive at:
    http://www.gooruze.com/members.....Omnidrive/

    Have some courage Mr Arrington and comment on Omnidrive too.

  17. Ghaus

    May 5th, 2008 at 7:50 am

    I don’t understand why it needs a vrey very powerful server ! I am working on a start-up company and it has some cheap basic virtual server for $45/month , and uses Amazon S3 for its data. Why does this start-up needs some powerful virtual server? I don’t understand ?

  18. Geekian

    May 5th, 2008 at 10:40 am

    I liked newsalloy and I used it too. recently I started using neoows.com (http://www.neoows.com) and its still alive. :)

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