Shoplocket is shutting down (opens in new tab)

I am. I want good services to live, to continue through time, to not close, and to fullfill their promises. Although I can't deny the utility of free-unsustainable services, the more time pass, the more I'm inclined toward paid service first and foremost because I can count on them.

Lately I've been searching for great products with sustainable business models. Basecamp, Posthaven, Pinboard, are a few that I've encountered.

I was inspired by this https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3830-ta-da-list-until-the-end... and I though "wow, this should be the way". And I think it is.

Many of the startups selling to megacorps where the product dies would have been dead in short order anyway, and I wouldn't assume everyone is getting a big payday.

It doesn't seem totally unreasonable to me for failing startups to sell to a larger company and (hopefully) extract some of the value left in it for shareholders and employees - I just wish that with that the acquiring companies would do more to support the customers of the startup with reasonable shutdown notices etc. Unfortunately nobody involved has a very strong incentive to do so.

Read other comments - they announced it back on May 13

    They gave their customers a whole day to replace their products

https://twitter.com/shoplocket/status/598624569654513664

    We're announcing today that we'll be shutting down the ShopLocket ecommerce 
    plugin as of June 30, 2015. Read more: https://www.shoplocket.com/ 
    
    4:03 PM - 13 May 2015

It appears that the linked page went up a while back with an automated countdown clock, so at some point "Our team is here to help assist you throughout the next 1 day" presumably said "the next 30 days" or something.

It's extremely unclear from the actual link, so I can't blame you for misunderstanding.