What's a piece of tech you were excited about but stopped using?

4 pointsby bobbyblackstone7개월 전4 comments

I’ve been thinking about how often this happens to me.

I see a new tool or product, read the launch post, try it out, and honestly feel excited about it. It looks useful. It promises to save time or reduce friction. I want it to work.

Then a few weeks later, I realize I have not opened it in a while.

Not because it is awful. More because it never quite became part of my routine. Maybe it was slower than expected. Maybe it required too much setup. Maybe it solved a problem I do not actually have that often.

I am curious how common this is for other people here.

What is a piece of tech you were genuinely excited about, gave a real shot, and then quietly stopped using?

What made you stop?

I am especially interested in answers from people who wanted it to succeed.

bb.

4 comments

DamonHD7개월 전

1) Maybe edit "Ask HN: " into your title?

2) As a low-level C++/C/asm/hardware guy I'd like to get into Rust but haven't yet got started because I haven't had a recent project that would benefit. Not quite your question.

3) When dinosaurs still roamed the Earth many many people thought that a sprinkling of XML would fix everything, with similar levels of hype to the current LLM wave. I do regularly use XML (eg as XHTML source for my Web site, and in my RSS podcast feeds), but not for everything. Also see SOAP and WSDL...

eimrine7개월 전

I was very excited about smartphones 20 years ago, my first and second smartphone had Symbian when nobody from my environment used computers daily, then I've got Android and after that the value of that piece of technology has sagged. I have no smartphone for at least 10 years and have an experience that now I have to be really excited about living with not a single one. Trying hard to get a smartphone has been replaced with trying hard to not get a smartphone.

raooll7개월 전

1) Smartphones 2) Coding agents.

beardyw7개월 전

ZX81, Amiga 500, Windows