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34 pointsbillclerico15 comments

Oh, yeah, that little episode really inspires confidence in a financial service.

Seriously, take it down until you sort out your issues, guys.

FAQ - Q - What happens if the co-founders have a major spat over ownership rights and coding bugs?

A - We'll announce it to the world, have a fight behind closed doors, and re-open several days later as if nothing had happened. Hopefully, most of your pledges won't even notice and it will be business as usual.

My apologies if I'm stating the obvious, but this funny Q&A is not actually present in http://www.fundable.com/static/faq/ . It might have been a lighthearted way to acknowledge the troubles and say they're back at it.

It appears they are simply in full denial.

They're dead. They might as well rename the site to 'unfundable', anybody that puts their money in the hands of a bunch of trustees that present themselves as hysterical infighting hissies has only themselves to blame.

Pay out, shut down. Those are the two things left in the history of 'fundable'.

Lot's of comments here are saying fundable is dead, but I don't think so. The web is big. Lots of bad things have happened to plenty of sites and they remain up and viable. I think we over-estimate the memory of the average internet user.

There are probably lots of fundable users now who don't know what just happened and there are countless more in the future who will never know.

This incident is really nothing major. Ford Motors built and released cars they knew were going to blow up and kill people and look at them today. People still buy Fords.

Do you really think some little founder spat that changed the home page for a couple days is going to destroy fundable? No way.

It should be interesting to see how they recover from this. I would have expected some sort of rebranding effort and to have them 301 fundable.com to the new site.

Even without the ridiculous public drama of last week, they could have used an overhaul of their image.

Haha... Who is going to trust them after all this

Unfortunately most people coming across there website would be none the wiser.

I am sure it'll always come up in the search results...

Louis must have got his domain back.

Registrant:

John Pratt

   ATTN: FUNDABLE.COM

   c/o Network Solutions

   P.O. Box 447

   Herndon, VA.  20172-0447

you think John let the site go back up?

What I think isn't really relevant, that's just speculation and I hate to speculate.

Maybe they kissed and made up, maybe they want to sell the site to some sucker that might think it has value after all this, I haven't a clue.

Mail him and ask ?

viral marketing at its finest.

1) Create a trauma 2) get two posts on HN 3) ??? 4) Profit

I imagine that legal (and police) pressure was brought to bear, given the quoted content of some of the emails sent to customers.

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