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Can anyone think of any South African websites that were a really good idea or did something better than their competition did, but failed?

 

Internationally (Primarily US) there seems to be ample examples, but I often wonder about our own history in this space surely there where some smart SA web entrepreneurs which would make for some interesting stories?

 

I wanted to create this thread, because I could only think of the common examples:

 

theglobe.com

 

google vs yahoo

 

facebook vs myspace

 

snapchap & instagram vs vine

 

MSN messenger vs skype/facebook/instant messaging apps

 

veoh or vimeo vs Youtube, back in the day veoh and vimeo was alot better than youtube. It offered HD streaming before youtube did.

Señor Newbie

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Well, SA we did have a Q&A site run by Media24 called Answerit which I thought was better than Yahoo Answers. I think that was when 24.com was still trying the portal strategy.

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Groovy

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internationally aol.com aol/aim messenger. I used to have an aol email.

 

Locally I can only think of an app that had great potential called MXIT. It became a dinosaur in a space that was changing by the minute, I believe they would've been up there with whatsapp and WeChat

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