skribit
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Skribit let readers suggest topics to bloggers and follow the progress of proposed posts.
02 / skribit FAILURE REASONS
Failure reasons
The team said adoption was below expectations and the service remained useful to only a small niche of bloggers. Most users received no suggestions, and relatively few suggestions became published posts. The team stopped active development and pursued other opportunities.
03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Shutdown scheduled
In April 2011 the team announced that Skribit would close on 31 July and began refunding paying users.
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
Readers rarely supplied suggestions
- 02
Adoption remained niche
- 03
Active development stopped
- 04
Shutdown announced