[HN Gopher] Fakespot will shut down on July 1
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       Fakespot will shut down on July 1
        
       Author : yasp
       Score  : 36 points
       Date   : 2025-06-04 20:12 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.fakespot.com)
        
       | xeromal wrote:
       | Bummed about this. I know some people didn't like it but it never
       | hurts to have extra signals about the quality of the product even
       | if it falls short. My typical research path was looking for legit
       | amazon reviews, fakespot highlights, and reddit comments. Using
       | vetted.ai to replace fakespot but it's pretty mid in what I've
       | seen so far.
        
       | jandrese wrote:
       | Is there a post somewhere explaining why they are shutting down?
       | Did they just run out of money? Was it being run by a single guy
       | who is tired of maintaining it?
        
         | ksherlock wrote:
         | There is. Previously on HN:
         | 
         | Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
         | 
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063662
         | 
         | https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket
         | 
         | https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/building-whats-next/
        
           | jandrese wrote:
           | Thanks. The banner on the linked website offered no hints
           | whatsoever.
           | 
           | After digging through a couple blog posts:
           | 
           | > While the idea resonated, it didn't fit a model we could
           | sustain.
           | 
           | They ran out of money.
        
           | saintfire wrote:
           | Funny. I loathed pocket and how they felt it needed to be
           | enabled by default and required going to about config to
           | fully deintegrate.
           | 
           | Never heard about fakespot and it sounds like a great tool;
           | especially if it ran locally so it didn't need a monthly
           | fee..
        
       | brycewray wrote:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063662 (2025-05-22)
        
       | neilv wrote:
       | > _Thanks for supporting our journey._
       | 
       | Probably just traditional "our incredible journey" exit language,
       | but reminds me to mention a mindset misalignment that we see
       | frequently in startups:
       | 
       | Providing a solution isn't about our journey (together?). It's
       | about the solution.
       | 
       | I think many of us often have good alignment at some point, and
       | really want to solve the problem.
       | 
       | But as it becomes a business, we also have to be thinking about
       | the business.
       | 
       | That's OK, but remember that we're _also_ still purporting to
       | solve a problem.
       | 
       | The people for whom the problem is being solved don't much care
       | about our journey -- they care about the problem being solved.
       | 
       | If the solution effort is ending, and we're framing it _to those
       | people_ as our  "journey", that sounds like we missed the point
       | of the "support".
        
       | greenleaftreee wrote:
       | Really sad to hear. Anyone know of alternatives to this app?
        
       | spiffytech wrote:
       | If you're looking for a replacement, I've been using
       | https://reviewmeta.com for years.
        
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