Singly

The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.

Founded2011

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01 / WHAT IT BUILT

What the company did

Singly was a personal-data startup founded in 2011 and built on The Locker Project, an open-source project for collecting personal data. Its pitch was to 'take back the power over your web data': users could gather their photos, address books, emails, and other online information in one place, safeguard it, and let developers build third-party apps on top of it. The company emphasized that everything was open source - 'for the people, by the people.'

02 / FAILURE REASONS

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03 / EVENT HISTORY

Events in the structured record

2011
Company founded
Singly is founded around The Locker Project, an open-source system for collecting personal web data, and begins courting developers to build apps that give consumers control over their data.

04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT

Difficulty of rebuilding this project today

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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH

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