Daniel Amitay

I've spent my time building apps and software for everyday people to use and love. A sleep tracker , a social map , group video chat , an email tracker , a bunch of open source — you name it. Over 400 million people have used things I've built professionally , and about 5 million people have used things I've built for…

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Shutting Down a Service with 500M Requests per Month

2015104 points57 comments Software Engineering details

This week I finished shutting down my app-detection service, iHasApp . I disabled the signup forms, grandfathered the current users on their plans, sent out emails, and updated the landing page with a message to any new visitors. After all of this, I thought it might be interesting to chronicle what it was, how it…