I’ve got a crappy one for ya–Texty “beta”
Smoking Crack, Will be out of business soon, I just don't get it, Give me a break!, Web 2.0, Shouldn't Exist, Waste of time, Will never make money, Service August 11th, 2007
TechCrunch says “Texty is a dead simple but useful new internet service that you can use to quickly create and edit content on a web page with zero HTML or programming skills.”
I say that it’s a waste of time. What’s the point?
The way it works is that you write your snippets at texty and then get an embed URL to paste in other webpages. Where ever that embed code is placed, the text (or content) snippet will show up.
Here’s why it’s pointless. If someone has an HTML page, they can just write the content directly in the page a hell of a lot easier than going to texty and then pasting embed code. If they have a blog, they already have WYSIWYG editing. Ditto on social networks.
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August 14th, 2007 at 9:03 am
You should consider adding this site to, er, this site. It’s not interesting or useful, and it’s meanspirited. Startups are aspirational, representing the best in human spirit. Tearing people down like this, well–it just sucks.
August 14th, 2007 at 10:35 am
This site’s created in good fun! Granted, it is critical of “me too” sites & businesses or ones that don’t have a chance of generating returns…
But, to be fair, I’ll add my own blog.
August 16th, 2007 at 12:34 am
I had never hoped to have the word Crappy and Texty in the same sentence to be honest. As a life long developer - I personally maintain websites for all my family members, and many businesses. I find my time is always pulled to change very simple pieces of content on these websites. They are such small sites with 0 budget - there is no point in building them their own CMS. Thus - Texty! A simple way to build a site for someone - allow them to change content at will. Many people are finding other uses - but this was the initial use. It is simply growing now.
Regardless - thanks for the linkback.
September 25th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
Stumbled across your site randomly. Ignore the naysayers, do not take it down. You should go on to include every single web 2.0 startup out there. Be as meanspirited as you can be - plenty of us will cheer you on.
I would actually agree with Charlie C. when he says:
“Startups are aspirational, representing the best in human spirit…”
except that I would amend it slightly
“Startups are aspirational, representing how the best in human spirit can be tragically, woefully misdirected into making electronic toys that are at best useless. Thousands of the best and brightest in our society have deluded themselves into thinking that this is a better use of their time than solving real problems; so far, they somehow have manage delude everyone else along with them.”
December 18th, 2007 at 11:02 am
I *love* this site! One of the reasons why I set up a blog was to talk about so many sites that suck, are based on stupid ideas and, still, get a lot of hype and for some mysterious reason, they get people to even invest on them.
> Startups are aspirational, representing the best in human spirit
Yes, true; however, in order to differentiate between what represents “the best in human spirit” and what represents stupidity and a focus in getting money out of people’s pockets, no matter how ridiculously, we need suckystartups. So many sites should be here…