Why are you trying to "rescue the product"? It's not your product. And whoever owned "your" product didn't value it nearly as much as you do, since they sold it to Idera.
The ship has sailed, it's time to move on.
The ship has sailed, it's time to move on.
We all have things we love, or responsibilities we feel.
I don't think that's fair at all. Idera acquires developer tools companies, and the tools are used by many developers - people here on HN. Let's suppose you built a tool used worldwide by your peers: would you just shake your head and go "yep, don't care"?
Have you read the tweets by the departing Sencha devs? They were desolate.
Yep, don't care.
The answers on this thread (along the lines of ‘don’t care, give up’) shock me. I see HN as an audience of passionate, tech-loving people - people who would not want to be in the position described in this question and people potentially with the passion and drive to do something about it.
If there are a lot of people in need of medical attention, the compassionate doctor stops working on the dead one, and saves those she can. We're all trying to tell you your patient is dead. You loved your patient, but it's too late, and now it's time to move onto another.
But that was a situation in which an earlier version was already open-sourced. You could consider reimplementing the system as open source, if IP rights and non-competes don't prevent it.
But accepting that the owners killed the system is likely to make you happier.
I've seen that. A wonderful talk.
> But accepting that the owners killed the system is likely to make you happier.
I understand. Nevertheless, I always feel there are options for making something better. This Ask HN is about how to do so.
You may love it too much to let go - you feel like you would lose a part of yourself if you leave. But if you stay and watch the thing you love being dragged through the mud day after day, is that going to be better, or worse? I suspect worse.
I suspect that you can't do anything to help. I suspect that you need to get out, because staying is going to destroy you. Staying (even at the price of being destroyed) to save others is noble. Staying and being unable to do anything to help isn't noble - just unwise.