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Why we shut down Achoo

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Looking just at the blog design I'd say the team has no clue of what people generally like.

I'm curious as to what Achoo actually did? What service did they provide? Their homepage simply links to the blog post which doesn't really state anything about their product

Achoo won’t become the professional social network that shows what you have accomplished, and with whom.

I found a brief blurb on TechCrunch[1]:

> Their say: Socially accepted bragging: crisp profiles for freelancers, consultants and hustlers. Freelancers & consultants have to spend too much time to make sure their online profile is up-to-date and professional looking – to the extent some can’t be bothered. Achoo makes it very easy to spread your achievements and lessons learned which make up a crisp-looking profile. In addition there are networking features added to make sure opportunities find you.

> Our take: Alas there are a lot of profile page startups but worth kicking the tyres on this one.

Sounds like About.me for LinkedIn.

[1]: http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/19/20-startups-demo-and-launch...

Sounds familiar - we shelved our business (Every Daydream Holiday) this week for similar reasons, having found we couldn't put in the necessary time to deliver a great product AND build a business. Being in separate cities didn't help either. Or, as Achoo put it so nicely, "And though we put in lots of hours, too many of them were evening hours away from each other."

Congrats on making the decision.

13542 unique visitors and 1000+ signups -- I'm curious as to why the servers kept crashing under the load. I assume the uniques aren't concurrent users and are per month (or over the whole 18 month period?). $8/month hosting?

I'm pretty sure he was being sarcastic.

Oh, my bad. He wrote "we wish :)" after -- my sarcasm detector is off this morning. I really thought the coffee hit the spot..

I've never heard of Achoo, but the LinkedIn user experience has gone down hill recently. There must be room for competitors.

Wow reading that is like you've written a warning to me... except I don't have a co-founder (yet). Thanks for sharing.

Bless you! (SCNR)

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