As the original founder and CEO, I can provide a bit of clarity. As with many startups, ours was a thrilling but ultimately tumultuous journey. At the end of the day, we ended up with a nice profitable lifestyle business (filepicker.io) and a big ambitious change-the-world product that we were not able to get traction with (Ink).
The team decided that the right thing to do was to sell to someone that would:
1. Value and support existing customers
2. Return as much money as possible to investors, and
3. Allow the team to move on to new opportunities.
(In priority order)
I have a tremendous amount of respect for the new team, and actually think they will do a better job with filepicker.io, because they are committed to its success as a company and a business rather than some distant vision.
For those who were fans of what we were trying to do at Ink (helping connect the apps and services that people use), I'm still committed to the dream and seeing if we can do it in a slightly different way at IFTTT.
At some point I may do a more full post-mortem, for now if you have any questions hit me up at <my username>@gmail.com
As a customer of filepicker.io I've always been impressed by the quality of the product, documentation, and support. So far this seems like a classy way to move on, best of luck at IFTTT!
The team decided that the right thing to do was to sell to someone that would: 1. Value and support existing customers 2. Return as much money as possible to investors, and 3. Allow the team to move on to new opportunities. (In priority order)
I have a tremendous amount of respect for the new team, and actually think they will do a better job with filepicker.io, because they are committed to its success as a company and a business rather than some distant vision.
For those who were fans of what we were trying to do at Ink (helping connect the apps and services that people use), I'm still committed to the dream and seeing if we can do it in a slightly different way at IFTTT.
At some point I may do a more full post-mortem, for now if you have any questions hit me up at <my username>@gmail.com