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- "journey": check

- "humbled, honored": check

- complete shutdown < 30 days: check

- no context on what, why, and how it happened: check.

This is a sour post, sorry for that. Startups are hard, no question about that.

But as mentioned elsewhere, this type of posts just adds more damage and unclarity to a situation that is probably pretty dramatic for the founders, customer and employees.

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These are the scammers that would report 4,000 5 star reviews for tiny law firms supposedly handling high end ip matters? It was a total scam set of ratings (they claimed to just use top 5% of firms as well but the “ratings” they claimed users left were garbage) - their transparency might have to be “we were caught making up reviews of attorneys on our site”? Don’t know details but someone could find a bar complaint or lawsuit I think

I think it's worth noting that non-company stakeholders like myself are in no way owed an explanation of why this happened.

As you alluded to, shutting down a startup is a tremendously stressful experience for founders and management. Their top priority is doing right by their customers, employees, and investors. Doing a proper post mortem for the public, in my opinion, is far down on the priority list, and I'm fine with that.

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