Socialbrowse
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Socialbrowse was a Y Combinator startup co-founded by Zachary Garbow and David Fowler, described as 'Twitter for links.' It was a Firefox extension that made browsing social: a real-time sidebar showed links and comments shared by friends, with a Follow system for link sharers and embedded profile icons marking shared links on the pages themselves. It launched in private beta in June 2008 and reported over 5,000 users by early 2009, with plans for a browser-neutral, platform version that never materialized.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
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04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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