Interesting — do you happen to remember any names? I was just a wee lad, so this is new to me. Wouldn’t make a great startup, but I thought it was a pretty smart blog feature!
“_why the lucky stiff” had one of these for a while too, I can’t remember the name.
Though Wikipedia makes it sound like there was a lot of pressure from investors to pivot into that side quest:
In 2012, the company received an additional $15 million investment from Silicon Valley–based venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (also known as a16z),[1][3][11] prompted in part by partner Marc Andreessen's own past effort to build a group annotation feature into a web browser.[1] Ben Horowitz described Genius as "one of the most important things we've ever funded"