YourMinis
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
YourMinis offered a customizable homepage built from Flash widgets, alongside tools for distributing those widgets to other websites.
02 / YourMinis FAILURE REASONS
Failure reasons
The team decided to concentrate on making widgets rather than maintaining its own startpage. Its notice pointed users to existing startpage providers and said widgets would continue working elsewhere.
03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Startpage closed
The YourMinis startpage was scheduled to end on 27 October 2008; users were asked to export their feeds and content beforehand.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
Material for this section is being gathered and checked. It will appear here once ready.
Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN
How the factors connect
- 01
Team concentrated on widget development
- 02
Maintaining an independent startpage was deprioritized
- 03
Startpage discontinued