Building an application that helps people aggregate and read messages, articles and posts in social media in one place is currently a difficult proposition. Smashing, an application powered by AI, which allows users to exhaust messages and posts that they would like to read, closes, apparently due to the inability to quickly scalp.
“We just didn't grow quickly enough to continue. We were not able to scale it into a balanced product,” said We -mail to customers announcing its closure.
The founder of Goodreads, Otis Chandler, launched Smashing in June last year, aimed at using artificial intelligence and community to prepare information articles, blog posts, podcasts and posts in social media from the entire network. The application allows users to track their interests, send content and vote for a suggested content to indicate meaning. He also had summaries driven by AI and Bot, which could answer the questions.
The company told We -Mail that it has seven employees working on the product. Smashing collected $ 3.4 million funding with True Ventures, BlockCange, Offline Ventures, Advancit Capital, Power of N Ventures and several Investors of Angels.
Fortunately, there are many startups working on breaking up the problem to solve. We have information readers powered by AI, such as newsletter and molecules, as well as feed aggregator applications, such as Feeed, Tapestras and Reeder-Put a few.
Closing Smashing appears after Instagram co -founders closed their own AI information application artifact last year And eventually he sold Yahoo technology.
