We have built a lot of good products here at Good Enough. Whether you’re sharing an inbox with your team or avoiding social media with a blog, we’ve got you covered. Unfortunately, there are some products that, while very nice, have not had our attention for a long time. Two of those products are Yay.Boo and Ponder.
Ponder, our take on small forum software, was one of the first things we built as a collective. Even today, it works really well for a small group of polite folks to talk about a shared interest. Unfortunately, not many small groups found Ponder, and our team hasn’t had the bandwidth to continue improving the software.
Yay.Boo is a delightful tool with which to quickly throw some HTML online. On top of that, it has always been a playground to push the envelopes on just what a product homepage could look like. Unlike Ponder, Yay.Boo is even getting a decent amount of use.
If you look closely you may see a shared risk that each of these products pose. To run both Yay.Boo and Ponder responsibly, a fair amount of time must be spent in moderation. Every Yay.Boo site update needs to be checked. We also don’t want any nasty content to end up hosted on Ponder, which is even trickier to moderate since the groups are private.
Leaving those services online and not paying attention to them is something that we do not feel comfortable doing. Since our small team is not focused on these products, we need to do the responsible thing and move on from them.
So, with heavy hearts, we’re going to shut down Ponder and Yay.Boo*. Signups are already turned off. On December 3rd we’ll delete all user data and flip the power to off.
To those of you still using Yay.Boo and Ponder, we’re sorry. There are some good alternatives to Yay.Boo in: tiiny.host, Netlify Drop, and static.app. Ponder is a different beast and, sadly, we do not know of many products that fit a similar mold. Liminal is the only one we’ve come across that might be close.
To anyone who was gracious enough to pay for a Yay.Boo account, double thank you! We have canceled all accounts and you won’t be billed again. If you have any questions about the shutdown or your data, please also don’t hesitate to get in touch.
While it stinks to have to send this message, we hope you’ll understand that a lot of thought went into this decision. Through these years at Good Enough we’ve discovered which products really excite us; properly saying goodbye to Ponder and Yay.Boo will allow us to focus on those products instead.
* A final note: if you’re reading this and thinking that you’d be just the person to take on either of these softwares, do let us know. We haven’t 100% closed the door to passing these products on to a person or team that could care for them, and we’d be happy to listen to your pitch.
Thank you and keep keeping the web weird!