Summly, news summary app created by 16 yr old, will be a flop (as judged in Jan 2015)
Created by RandomThinker on 2012-11-01; known on 2015-01-01; judged wrong by RandomThinker on 2013-03-25.
- RandomThinker estimated 65% on 2012-11-01
- RandomThinker said “Hype here. Might be acquired though. http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2012/11/01/summly-delivers-all-your-news-in-just-350-characters/” on 2012-11-01
- RandomThinker said “Meh, it got acquired by Yahoo for $30m. That’s more than enough for it not to be a flop.http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/25/net-us-yahoo-summly-idUSBRE92O0IE20130325” on 2013-03-25
- RandomThinker judged this prediction wrong on 2013-03-25.