Fact #1: We’ve run out of money.

Kind of funny how that might be the number one reason for every startup to come to a stop and nobody ever speaks about it. However, it’s pretty common and we just experienced it. We tried several ways of getting a new investment but at the end the numbers weren’t good enough to convince people to put their trust in our vision.

Fact #2: We’ve run out of time.

No money? Why aren’t you guys building QUOTE.fm in your spare time, you might ask. That’s what we’ve thought at first, but after several meetings and heavy thinking about what QUOTE.fm is, we came to the conclusion that it’s just to big to build it in a way we would like to see it. Our standards are a bit too high for all the work we would have to do to even maintain the quality QUOTE.fm has at the moment. Just maintaining isn’t enough, we would like it to flourish.

Fact #3: Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered.

So, what does that mean for you? You, the people who build this thing with us? Without you this whole adventure wouldn’t even have started.

QUOTE.fm isn’t going away. I know the first part of this post very much sounded like it, but we have good news. We found the right people to maintain QUOTE.fm: elbdudler. A young and ambitious agency from Hamburg, Germany.

That means: Philipp, Marcel, Flo and I are saying our good-byes and sometime in the (quite near) future elbdudler will take over and hopefully build this thing here into something that you guys will appreciate.

We think this is the best solution for all those affected. You, us and elbdudler. Marcel, Philipp Flo and I are going on new adventures and we’re sure we’ll see you around.

We had a great time. Thanks for everything. You’re the best. <3

See you soon,
Marcel, Martin, Philipp and Florian

Have a great weekend!

Here’s what it can do:

• Your Reading List. See what you’ve saved for later reading and read it when you’ve got the time.
• Add new articles to your Reading List.
• Social Reading: See who else read and quoted the article you’re reading and comment on their quotes.
• Quote the article you’re reading and recommend it to your friends.

Go grab it in the AppStore. It’s free and you won’t find a more social reading experience out there.

You might have noticed that you’re not able to find new articles shared on QUOTE.fm at the moment. We’ll publish another blogpost in the next couple of days that will shed some light on this decision. Let’s just say: Everything you might miss will come in the biggest update QUOTE.fm has seen so far. Soon™.

QUOTE.fm for iPad and iPhone in an AppStore near you.

If you have a bit of time to spare and want to build something neat, feel free to take a look at this list of ideas for our API: QUOTE.fm API Ideas Braindump.

Feel free to ping us if you’re building something. We are looking forward to post your creation here in this blog.

Those times are over. The new single pages are much more useful and self-explanatory:

Here are some examples:

Pruning: Making room for something new
The Best
Innovation is a fight
What’s inside the Skinner Box?

Basically there are no pages for individual quotes on QUOTE.fm anymore, we just put the quote and all comments where they belong: Directly to the article they originate from. You see someone sharing an article via QUOTE.fm on Twitter or Facebook? Click or tap the link and you’ll be directed to the site of the article. You’re able to toggle the quote, or disable the QUOTE.fm options altogether. If you click somewhere in the darkened space around the quote, or on the “Quote” button in the bar at the top, you hide the quote so you can read the whole article. If you’re done reading, just click the button again to view the quote, write a comment or recite it.

This is a huge deal for QUOTE.fm and we’re going to change a lot of things like this to make more sense in the near future. We’ll change some things to bring discussions to where they belong and to ensure a better experience of finding new stories worth your time. Some of the very first steps are the new single quote pages and a small redesign we gave Discover and Following and there is many more to come.

Happy quoting!

Here is a list of all the changes in 1.0.2:

• New sign up process, including option to connect with Facebook
• Added: „Open in Safari“ button for the in-app browser
• Fixed: The reading view now saves your set line height reliably
• Fixed: Saving an article for reading later now works in the search results
• Fixed: Resetting the icon badge
• Fixed: Tapping the iOS top bar now scrolls the view to top in Discover
• Lots of other small fixes

Make sure to update your app to have the best possible QUOTE.fm experience.
Have a nice weekend reading on your couch while outside the temperature is dropping heavily.

QUOTE.fm for iPad on the App Store

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Here is what it is able to do:

• Save to QUOTE.fm Read – Let your readers easily save your articles for later reading to QUOTE.fm Read
• Read now – Let your readers read the article in a reading environment they can customize themselves
• Send to Kindle – Let your readers send the article to their favorite e-ink reading device. (Soon available for everybody, at the moment still in beta.)
• Recommend on QUOTE.fm – This may be the best thing. Your readers can select a part they liked of the article and click the QUOTE.fm button to recommend the article on QUOTE.fm

The number to the right of the button shows how often the article has been recommended on QUOTE.fm. Click the number to go directly to the source page on QUOTE.fm.

Nice, isn’t it? And there is more.

The Industry

We’re happy to announce that The Industry (Source page of The Industry) already makes use of the new QUOTE.fm button. The Industry is a publication dedicated to highlighting design focused startups and people. If that doesn’t sound like a perfect fit, we don’t know what else would.

Make sure to head over there to read and recommend their articles. It’s great content and we promise that you’ll learn something new.

We’re on your site.

Go grab the embed code in the QUOTE.fm Labs, add it to your page and see what your readers find worth recommending.

Happy writing!

we know, we know. It’s about time. So let’s not waste more of it and cut right to the chase: Our API with write access is out now. Please read this getting started guide to get comfortable with our authentication method.

What took us so long? We decided that the iPad app is our main priority, so Philipp worked on the backend stuff that was necessary for the app. The app launched and with it QUOTE.fm Read, which got some tweaks in the last couple of weeks. We’ve improved the text parser, added page stitching and made a lot of small fixes.

With all that done, we’re finally ready to complete the API. From now on our API has read and write access.

Reeder for iPhone and Mac got a special treatment and is therefore the first app that allows posting to QUOTE.fm.

We’re really excited about this and are looking forward to all your creative ideas. We think there are great things that can be build upon QUOTE.fm and the API is there for you.

Feel free to let us know what you’re building and we are always happy to get feedback. The whole thing is on GitHub and we’re going to build a page where all apps and pages that integrate with QUOTE.fm will be featured.

Go visit the QUOTE.fm Labs! Have fun and happy coding.

Reeder is the first app available that’s allowed to use our API with write access. That will change very soon. Hint hint.

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New e-mails

The old e-mails looked kind of ugly. In fact they might be the thing that lasted for the longest time before getting a rebrush. Now they look nice and we hope you’ll welcome them in your inbox.

Page stitching

Some publications decided to boost their pageviews by splitting the articles into several pages. Until now we saved only the first page after you added the article for later reading. From now on we’ll look for additional pages and stich them together, so you’ll save the whole article to your QUOTE.fm Read.

This should work on most major sites. In case you discover an article where this isn’t working, please let us know.