{"slug": "google-wave", "name": "Google Wave", "category": "other", "category_name": "Other software", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 3, "warners": 0, "score": 2.955, "rising": 3.0, "first": "2026-10-05", "latest": "2026-10-09", "why": "I loved Google Wave. The first time I used it, I said out loud, \"Wow, this really has possibilities.\"", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 0, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I loved Google Wave. The first time I used it, I said out loud, \"Wow, this really has possibilities.\"", "icon": false, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Google Wave"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 800244864, "item_id": 50015304, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50015304", "by": "wyclif", "date": "2026-10-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I loved Google Wave. The first time I used it, I said out loud, \"Wow, this really has possibilities.\"", "excerpt": "I loved Google Wave. The first time I used it, I said out loud, \"Wow, this really has possibilities.\" The double-whammy of them killing Reader and Wave was super deflating when it came to my view of Google as a company.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Orkut.com"}, {"id": 800223520, "item_id": 50013970, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50013970", "by": "l0c0b0x", "date": "2026-10-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "We used it HEAVILY at work (IT)", "excerpt": "Google Wave, was ahead of its time! We used it HEAVILY at work (IT), then all the sudden--boom! It was not going to be developed any more. I still don't get it. Google, with all their resources couldn't support this? Ok, instead of getting upset (AGAIN!), I'm just going to go back to the initial post from 16 years ago. Perhaps reading the comments might calm me down. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1575892", "context": "IT worker", "use_case": "workplace collaboration", "switched_from": "", "story": "Orkut.com"}, {"id": 799368912, "item_id": 49960557, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49960557", "by": "eszed", "date": "2026-10-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I loved Wave, and used it very successfully on one creative project.", "excerpt": "Huge mistake! I loved Wave, and used it very successfully on one creative project. When I tried again, with some of the same people, we'd collectively burned all of our invite tokens and couldn't get any more, so we had to revert to emailing things back and forth so the new folks weren't kept out of the loop. That killed it, as far as any of us were concerned. I think I used it one more time, to plan a party or somet", "context": "", "use_case": "collaboration on creative project", "switched_from": "", "story": "We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [{"by": "l0c0b0x", "context": "IT worker", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50013970", "date": "2026-10-08"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["workplace collaboration", "collaboration on creative project"], "compared": [], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50006012", "title": "Orkut.com", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49947051", "title": "We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {"recommend": 3}}, "quotes": [{"id": 800244864, "item_id": 50015304, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50015304", "by": "wyclif", "date": "2026-10-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I loved Google Wave. The first time I used it, I said out loud, \"Wow, this really has possibilities.\"", "excerpt": "I loved Google Wave. The first time I used it, I said out loud, \"Wow, this really has possibilities.\" The double-whammy of them killing Reader and Wave was super deflating when it came to my view of Google as a company.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Orkut.com"}, {"id": 800223520, "item_id": 50013970, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50013970", "by": "l0c0b0x", "date": "2026-10-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "We used it HEAVILY at work (IT)", "excerpt": "Google Wave, was ahead of its time! We used it HEAVILY at work (IT), then all the sudden--boom! It was not going to be developed any more. I still don't get it. Google, with all their resources couldn't support this? Ok, instead of getting upset (AGAIN!), I'm just going to go back to the initial post from 16 years ago. Perhaps reading the comments might calm me down. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1575892", "context": "IT worker", "use_case": "workplace collaboration", "switched_from": "", "story": "Orkut.com"}, {"id": 799368912, "item_id": 49960557, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49960557", "by": "eszed", "date": "2026-10-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I loved Wave, and used it very successfully on one creative project.", "excerpt": "Huge mistake! I loved Wave, and used it very successfully on one creative project. When I tried again, with some of the same people, we'd collectively burned all of our invite tokens and couldn't get any more, so we had to revert to emailing things back and forth so the new folks weren't kept out of the loop. That killed it, as far as any of us were concerned. I think I used it one more time, to plan a party or somet", "context": "", "use_case": "collaboration on creative project", "switched_from": "", "story": "We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare"}]}