I Rebuilt Google Reader ,Yahoo Pipes , DMOZ and other tools Big Tech
Big Tech killed 7 tools used by 500 million people. I rebuilt all of them in one platform. Here's what they murdered: 🔴 Google Reader (2013) — 30M users. Killed because it didn't fit an ad spreads...

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Big Tech killed 7 tools used by 500 million people. I rebuilt all of them in one platform. Here's what they murdered: 🔴 Google Reader (2013) — 30M users. Killed because it didn't fit an ad spreadsheet. 🔴 Yahoo Pipes (2015) — 90,000 active pipes. The original no-code automation. Gone overnight. 🔴 Yahoo Answers (2021) — 200M users. Replaced by nothing. 🔴 DMOZ (2017) — 5M sites, 92,000 volunteer editors, 19 years of work. Bulldozed silently. 🔴 Yahoo Directory (2014) — The original internet navigation layer. Dead. 🔴 Delicious (2017) — 5.3M users. Sold 3 times then killed. 🔴 iGoogle (2013) — Tens of millions of daily users. No replacement ever came. Nothing replaced any of them. A decade later people still beg for a Google Reader clone. So I built it. All 7. In one platform. Called SENTINEL. ✅ Website monitoring (hosted Uptime Kuma — finally) ✅ AI RSS reader (what Google Reader would have become) ✅ Curated web directory (DMOZ rebuilt) ✅ AI Q&A (Yahoo Answers with local LLMs) ✅ No