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I Rebuilt Google Reader ,Yahoo Pipes , DMOZ and other tools Big Tech

I Rebuilt Google Reader ,Yahoo Pipes , DMOZ and other tools Big Tech

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Big Tech killed 7 tools used by 500 million people. I rebuilt all of them in one platform. Here's what they murdered: πŸ”΄ Google Reader (2013) β€” 30M users. Killed because it didn't fit an ad spreadsheet. πŸ”΄ Yahoo Pipes (2015) β€” 90,000 active pipes. The original no-code automation. Gone overnight. πŸ”΄ Yahoo Answers (2021) β€” 200M users. Replaced by nothing. πŸ”΄ DMOZ (2017) β€” 5M sites, 92,000 volunteer editors, 19 years of work. Bulldozed silently. πŸ”΄ Yahoo Directory (2014) β€” The original internet navigation layer. Dead. πŸ”΄ Delicious (2017) β€” 5.3M users. Sold 3 times then killed. πŸ”΄ iGoogle (2013) β€” Tens of millions of daily users. No replacement ever came. Nothing replaced any of them. A decade later people still beg for a Google Reader clone. So I built it. All 7. In one platform. Called SENTINEL. βœ… Website monitoring (hosted Uptime Kuma β€” finally) βœ… AI RSS reader (what Google Reader would have become) βœ… Curated web directory (DMOZ rebuilt) βœ… AI Q&A (Yahoo Answers with local LLMs) βœ… No-code autom

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