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.
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.
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 2015It's extremely unclear from the actual link, so I can't blame you for misunderstanding.