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Sucks to see this happen, and to see Convore (which jazzychad wrote an iPad app for) floundering as well.

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Hi all,

Convore co-founder here.

The company, Convore, is still very much alive and well.

However, we're currently working on a new, but related, product (https://grove.io/). We're still alpha testing it with a few users, but hope to have it out there soon.

Grove is a little more developer-focused, and my co-founders really wanted to work on a mainstream project. So yes, the Erics left Convore to start a new project, Can't Wait!, an iPhone app for watching new movie trailers.

That being said, the Convore iPad app by jazzychad is fantastic. jazzychad is a really smart guy and an excellent developer and I hope he has a great time working at Twilio (a pretty cool company themselves). I predict the future for jazzychad will be bright. :D

Whoa, I'm excited to see Grove! I was just thinking how I really prefer IRC to Campfire/Hipchat/etc, especially when properly setup with a good bouncer and such. But that is annoying, and some people are scared of it, so there's a good business opportunity in making IRC really easy to setup well, possibly with the ability for people who are scared of IRC to use some fancy, approachable frontend. (Wimps.)

What indication is there that Convore isn't doing well? What is the measure for success for it?

Active users?

I had totally forgotten about convore.

A few months ago the UI became noticeably slower. At about the same time, anecdotally, multiple channels that I frequented saw a drop in participation, or at least, not much growth. These channels include the GitHub channel, the Changelog channel, and the Rails channel.

https://convore.com/feedback/convores-ui-is-very-slow/

Two of the three founders left to do a new startup.

Ahh all good reasons, I figured they were still chugging along with Leah still being involved.

Source? (Edit: I believe you. I am just curious what they are doing now)

http://boilerplateinc.com/

http://cantwa.it/about/

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