Great piece, and sadly a too-common story of tech failures. "Growth" is as much a threat as anything to niche tech companies.

StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears

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The underlying problem was that we shifted from making something we knew people wanted, to making an ill-defined product that we hoped people wanted.

The lesson I took from it is that trying to reach a wider audience by changing your product often means diluting your value.

I tweeted at the time that there’s still a market for the original pebble. I’m glad Migicovsky is the one making it.

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The excellent Pebble e-paper smartwatch is making a comeback

Awesome blog on [why pebble failed the first time](https://ericmigi.com/blog/success-and-failure-at-pebble):

> The underlying problem was that we shifted from making something we knew people wanted, to making an ill-defined product that we hoped people wanted.

The lesson I took from it is that trying to reach a wider audience by changing your product often means diluting your value.

I tweeted at the time that there’s still a market for the original pebble. I’m glad Migicovsky is the one making it.