Kiko.com dies before trying harder

Filed in archive Entrepreneurship on August 17, 2006

As Richard White writes my favorite calendar app is now up for grabs on ebay:

t was both a sad and liberating day for me as Kiko dived into the Deadpool. I won't get into all of the dynamics of the situation, but, in a nutshell, we had lost our spark and were letting our users down by not improving the product the way we should have. We felt it best to move on to other ventures rather than try and drag this one along even further.

I am actually proud of this exit strategy in a way. While it's not the one we envisioned going into things, I still think we are doing our best to satisfy the two most important stakeholders in Kiko: our investors and our users. We do care about our investors' money and instead of just burning through the rest of the piggy bank trying to get our groove back we are trying to recoup their investment (we stand to gain little from the auction). We have also put in place both iCal export and account deletion so our users can take their data with them over to another calendar service if they so choose (or stick with Kiko while we find an acquirer).

Kiko was a great service but did not deliver on many of the promises they made. It had a super smooth interface and easy handling but claimed to have notifications and SyncML soon. I bought my cell based on that advice but alas it never materialized.

I have just exported my data to Google Calendar which is not as nice in it' suser interface but quite usebale and probably edging forward quicker now as more people tap into it.

Good luck with the ebay auction - hope it works!

via techcrunch and wangtam