
I Rebuilt Google Reader ,Yahoo Pipes , DMOZ and other tools Big Tech
Big Tech killed 7 tools used by 500 million people. I rebuilt all of them in one platform. Here's what they murdered: π΄ Google Reader (2013) β 30M users. Killed because it didn't fit an ad spreadsheet. π΄ Yahoo Pipes (2015) β 90,000 active pipes. The original no-code automation. Gone overnight. π΄ Yahoo Answers (2021) β 200M users. Replaced by nothing. π΄ DMOZ (2017) β 5M sites, 92,000 volunteer editors, 19 years of work. Bulldozed silently. π΄ Yahoo Directory (2014) β The original internet navigation layer. Dead. π΄ Delicious (2017) β 5.3M users. Sold 3 times then killed. π΄ 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. β Website monitoring (hosted Uptime Kuma β finally) β AI RSS reader (what Google Reader would have become) β Curated web directory (DMOZ rebuilt) β AI Q&A (Yahoo Answers with local LLMs) β No-code autom
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