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Delight.io (YC W10) shutting down Jan 31st

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11 pointsbartman7 comments

I know nothing about this space, but assumed there have to have been competitors. I'm sure UXRecord aren't the only ones. http://www.uxrecorder.com/

I am very surprised to see a YC W10 company with this lo-fi website, and poor marketing.

I appreciate that not everybody who goes through YC raises funds, but the video doesn't even have a voice-over describing what the viewer is seeing.

They may have had the best technology (as bartman says), but I wouldn't exactly call this 'A game' marketing material, and they had to have realised how important that is.

I hope we hear a post-mortem from the Delight.io crew.

On a side-note, I find it interesting that UXRecorder is a video capture company that doesn't have a video demo of their product.

There are actually more competitors [1] but none of them was the reason of our failure. As PG once said, startups don't die until founders quit.

And yes post-mortem is coming.

[1] Apps: http://blog.hipmob.com/post/72458567103/6-mobile-sdks-for-in... Games: http://kamcord.com and http://everyplay.com

From all iOS screen recording startups delight.io still has some of the most impressive technology. This is especially true for OpenGL-based apps. Where other companies [1] require numerous code changes, Delight took the extra effort to hide all this from the user and only require one additional line of code.

I'm currently working on a usability testing startup myself in which we developed similar technology, and were constantly impressed by how easy Delight kept it for their users.

Good luck with your next project, Thomas, Chris and Bill.

[1] https://developers.everyplay.com/doc/iOS-Everyplay-Tutorial

Thx for your kind words. Ease of integration was crucial to us and the team worked hard to deliver that. But as pedalpete noted, we lagged in other areas and eventually failed to succeed.

Yeah, it was easy to integrate and use, was glad to have used it.

I'm kind of surprised how unprofessional the blog's discourse is. Not something I would expect from a startup funding by pg. I suppose that's why it's terminated; great code is great but unless you can appeal to professionals, your product is going to sit in a quagmire.

The features page reeks of narrow technical view. Just because the users are devs, doesn't mean they immediately want to see all these API references, they want marketing material just like anyone else. [1] http://www.delight.io/features

Unskinned bootstrap, no wonder they didn't take off. Nothing reaks of amateur hour more than unskinned bootstrap.

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