A small part of me: This is the dream, right? (Presumably) cashing out your side/main project. You made it. Good job!

The other part of me: This grows tiresome. Users are increasingly treated like stepping stools for founders (reminiscent of a pyramic scheme): Users help grow a product with their network, their content, or their money, get comfortable with that product, integrate it into their lives... and then it's yanked out from under them.

No, you're not (legally) obligated to provide a service in perpetuity, and founders/investors take on all the risk, but what would it look like for founders to push back (even a bit) and say "Listen, I want your money and you want my product, but you need to do something to take care of my users"? Seems far-fetched, but at some point I (the user) am going to stop taking a risk on your new product and just go with one offered by Google that will last forev— Oh.

Well, this feels like a betrayal. Specifically, the focus on cashing out your idea, which overtakes the desire to make your product the best it can be. Then the pretense of excitement and admiration of who bought them out.

Finding and building a community for (tech) creatives is hard. Adding networking and post sharing aspects was stellar. I really liked how this one turned out.

I hope the gap it'll leave behind is filled.

Acquhired. Read.cv and posts.cv are shutting down on a rather aggressive schedule. Big points for offering download of your CV as a complete Next project that you can host elsewhere, though.

Related:

Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25634192 - Jan 2021 (358 comments)

We built https://tini.bio a few months ago as an alternative if anyone is interested.

Yet again, let down by a centralised platform. I think most of the ones I haven't been disappointed by are forums, as many have lasted 10+ years.