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But you could...

For those who would like to start the usual "VC, funding, mentor" or "charge for the damn thing" mantras -- please, spare it. We're not in the Valley where it might be super-easy, and, after all, not everyone wants to be an entrepreneur. We just love making a good RSS reader.

We really want The Old Reader to be a big and successful project, with usable free accounts. But this is not possible to achieve with what we have, so unless someone resourceful takes over the project and brings it to the next level, it is not gonna happen. We had over 2 000 new registrations after the blackout last week. This is amazing and sad at the same time.

Han dado el servicio que han podido, y cuando ha llegado un punto en el que no pueden dar mas de si sin que afecte su vida personal, han dicho basta. No veo nada feo en ese actuar. Probablemente nunca pensaron que un proyecto personal fuese a tener la relevancia que tiene ahora. Si no les interesa ser emprendedores y montar un negocio alrededor de este proyecto, es perfectamente entendible.

Que deberian haberlo planificado mejor? Pues quizas, pero de nuevo, es un proyecto personal. Yo cuando me programo mis jueguecillos en plan personal no pienso en servidores con decenas de miles de usuarios y capacidad para cientos de miles de transacciones por segundo.

Ademas, han expuesto claramente el problema y las necesidades, y han dejado la puerta abierta a quien quiera emprender y montar el negocio (o darle el tiempo que requiere).

If anyone is interested in acquiring The Old Reader and making it better, we are very open and accepting proposals at hello@theoldreader.com. We would be waiting for them for two weeks, supporting and maintaining The Old Reader as usual. Please don't write us if you don't have resources to maintain a site used by tens of thousands of people every day, or if you don't know how you would improve The Old Reader. And please spare our time if you just want to buy the domain name and park a bunch of silly ads there -- it's not going to happen.

We value our community very much, and we will either pass the project to somebody who we know is going to take a good care of it, or we will switch it to private mode.

Encima no pretenden simplemente sacar provecho y vender la marca o el dominio. Ole por ellos.