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Inclined because, for example, Viaweb didn't become Shopify.

Tumblr, del.icio.us, ROI. Probably all should have continued growing and becoming established properties.

Delicious was the only useful bookmark manager ever. Nothing ever came close to replacing it. Though for me the “social” part was pretty useless (plenty of actual link aggregators out there to discover content at the time)

…god remember the “tags” phase of content organization?

Delicious was cool because of the constant streaming of links and things that I was able to discover back then. I would sit there and just click on links, finding good content

What's the superior phase of content organization now?

LLMs.

For me it was always: Google, YouTube, Reddit and forums. There are also niche sites that cater to certain groups and interests like Steam and Twitch for gaming or IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes for movies. There is no universal content discovery platform or engine(besides maybe Google).

Flickr was the Instagram of it's era. It could have maintained that crown if Yahoo gave half a duck about it

Flickr and Instagram were pretty different.

Flickr incentivized uploading a lot of photos with metadata and was highly searchable. It was great for photo hobbyists building a personal archive for others to peruse.

Instagram was for smartphone photos and playing with filters to set a vibe, and ephemeral sharing with friends and people you wanted to impress. It’s hardly searchable at all.

It sounds like an Instagram style app, with Flickr as the backend would be ideal. People could still share for fun from their phones, while actually being able to find and organize old photos, if they wish.

You can do something like that but it must be an Open Web project. Walled gardens only care about themselves and their ad revenue.

>Inclined because, for example, Viaweb didn't become Shopify

Who cares, it gave Paul Graham money for the Y Combinator.

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