Spotplex going offline!

I’ve been using Spotplex ever since their launch about a year ago.  A popular widget/digg like service, Spotplex announced yesterday (or today officially), it’s going offline for good.

Couple weeks ago, I tried to access Spotplex, the site wouldn’t load.

Yesterday, I tried to access Spotplex, the site loaded with a message saying Spotplex will be gone.
Today, I tried to access Spotplex, they now have a single HTML landing page like this:

We regret to inform you that Spotplex is going offline. This was a very hard decision for us and we are sure you will miss the service as much as we do.

If you are interested in our assets or in knowing more on the shutdown of Spotplex, you can reach us at support@spotplex.com

Thanks for your support.

The Spotplex Team

Condolences

Note: If you have embedded a Spotplex tracking code on your site, please remove it. You might get an error message if you still have it beyond 5/9.

I have been checking their traffic stats and they did great at launch but failed to keep it going.

I suspect their failure has something to do with failure of thinking about site revenue and viral marketing.

Although a great service (it used to be), here’s my condolences.

I wish they had kept the site running though, probably wouldn’t take more than 1 dedicated server at this point.

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