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NewsAlloy goes down; New beginning or bitter end?
by Grant Robertson Sep 5th 2006 at 1:50PM
NewsAlloy, who made our recent list of RSS readers, has experienced a crippling blow due to expansive growth."This hard days finally came to us, News Alloy reached high capacity of users and feeds and it can't handle them with existing hardware and hosting," said lead developer Volodymyr Danylyuk in an email informing users of the downtime and rough road ahead.
"News Alloy is running due to the enthusiasts who wanted something more than regular services driven by Google, Yahoo!, Newsgator, Bloglines with billions behind and dollar driven development teams. "
A message on the NewsAlloy website says they've filled a disk, and are working to recover.
NewsAlloy is openly asking for help from interested users and developers, and as a service, NewsAlloy faces two choices: Become limited access and invitation only, after shutting off accounts that have been inactive for the last 21 days, sell, or take on investment capital.
With such a large choice of RSS aggregation apps out there, you have to expect that we'll see consolidation and attrition over time. It's not cheap to run a first class web service, business models are still not well defined. It remains to be seen who the victors will be, but the competition is certainly fierce.
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Peter said 3:20PM on 9-05-2006
That's really a shame. As a hard core RSS user I liked NewsAlloy. It didn't have the speed and features of a desktop reader, but for a web app it was pretty good. It made keeping up with feeds while you are away from your main machine practical.
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Vasanth said 4:56PM on 9-05-2006
Hopefully someone rescues it. It was a good feed reader. The developer(s) was great in implementing user requests quickly. I will miss it a lot if it were to go away.
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Qwfwq said 6:12PM on 9-05-2006
Business models for web services startups are actually well defined, only not in the most foresightful way. The plan seems to be open the service to the public, send the news to the proper bloggers and sites to spread the word and hope for an investor or a buy out before the monthly bills become unsupportable.
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