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> the real-time typing feature was one of the main things that killed Wave

Nah. I was there. One thing killed Wave, and nothing else: not-invented-here syndrome from Mountain View executive team. It wouldn't have mattered whether Wave was perfect and bringing in a billion dollars a year; Lars wasn't in California, so whatever he was doing was going to get killed because he wasn't part of the in-crowd.

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oh really, well that's quite sad. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I'm glad at least they let him start it, although I'm curious what their thinking was at that moment (like "it's gonna "fail" anyway, just let him play with it").

I would so love for this discussion to be in a Wave-like tool. With inline comments instead of adding quotes by hand, in real time and with all the other cool features. Actually, maybe I can try to integrate my tool with HN API. Although looks like the API is read only, but at least it can be useful to track new comments. Wave was so great at features like showing new comments and playback as well!

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