Arment is also behind the podcasting app Overcast and other projects, like Build and Analyze, The Magazine (a former Apple Newsstand publication) and Peace. In April 2013, he sold the controlling interest in Instapaper to a company called Betaworks.
Marco would leave Tumblr in September 2010 and devote its full energies to Instapaper. It was created by Marco Arment, who at the time worked as lead developer and chief technology officer at Tumblr. Instapaper started out in 2007 as a simple service with a Read Later bookmarklet and a stripped-down view for articles. The app will completely cease to function on November 1, 2016. Not everything’s perfect: as of today, Instapaper’s app for developers-called Instaparser-has ceased taking signups and halted billing for existing customers.
“We’ll continue to make Instapaper a great place to save and read articles,” they ensured. The Instapaper team will be moving from Betaworks in New York City to Pinterest’s headquarters in San Francisco. They’ll be taking their learnings to Pinterest’s discovery products, with Instapaper’s parsing technology potentially powering certain Rich Pin types. Developers ensure that the deal will provide them with additional resources and experience necessary to advance the software.
“For you, the Instapaper end user and customer, nothing changes,” reads the post. True or not, lack of availability is certainly a blow to its whole business, and it's something the company should definitely prioritize as it restructures itself out of Pinterest.In a newsworthy move that in all likelihood makes lots of sense, the photo sharing service Pinterest has acquired Pinterest, the popular app and web service for saving webpages to read later.Īccording to the announcement, Pinterest will continue to develop and maintain the mobile Instapaper app, available at no charge on the App Store. A lot of people in the comments section of the press release are still seeking answers from Instapper with regard to this some even speculate the reason why Instapaper remains noncompliant with new GDPR rules is because it was handling data inappropriately in the first place. While that's true, a lot of users in European countries are still unable to access and use Instapaper altogether because its privacy policy remains in conflict with the new GDPR rules put in place this past May. Providing a great reading application to readers has always been the company's primary focus, and that won't change even with Pinterest out of the picture. The company also expressed gratitude to Pinterest "for being such great stewards of the product over the past two years." Instapaper was able to implement crucial usability features thanks to the Pinterest acquisition, including an improved search tool, a Firefox extension, and a number of different optimizations for the latest mobile operating systems. " We plan to continue offering a robust service that focuses on readers and the reading experience for the foreseeable future." "The product will continue to be built and maintained by the same people who've been working on Instapaper for the past five years," said Instapaper. Despite the change of hands, practically nothing will change moving forward, the company stressed.