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wraith808:
One of those things that sits in the background and quietly does its thing and gives you some interesting metrics (and ways to discover new software), Wakoopa has been around for a while.  But an e-mail that I received bodes the end of that.

Dear Wakoopians,

We are sending you this email to share with you some sad news. Six years after our plan to build the ‘lastFM for software’, to make discovering software social, we are closing down Wakoopa Social. Wakoopa will continue to make cool products only this time focussed on the corporate research market.

Read all about why we made this difficult decision and what we are going to do to give you some of your data back.

We want to thank you all for the time and effort you have put into our product. Together we truly made discovering software social.

Best regards,
Wouter Broekhof, Founder & CTO

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Tuxman:
Yep, a pity. One of those classic "set-and-forget" services, been running for me for years. Damn.
Any decent alternative?

KynloStephen66515:
DC should find out if they can take over this service, would be an interesting addition to the site  :-\

Renegade:
That was a good farewell letter. Very well done.

Too bad they can't just sell it off to someone though. That would be nice to see the product passed on.

Deozaan:
I just changed my password and then deleted my account. I don't want the old logs of my information being stolen or sold off or stored until some future merger/acquisition/whatever.

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