Spacebird.io

After shutting down Spacebird, I added the domain to my personal list of domain names for sale (both on my website and dan.com).

After less than a week, someone liked the domain and bought it from me. It was not any sort of life changing money. It was a little more than $100. Nothing super exciting. But, I paid regular market price for the ".io" domain, learned learned a lot, built a product, and made more money than I spent!

I'll call it a success!

Since Twitter is starting to roll out more native support for Twitter Spaces inside the mobile apps and on the website, including Spaces search, I decided to shut down the project.

Like with any project that receives basically no focused marketing effort, their was almost no traffic to the site. And with my decision to downsize my production server (that I host multiple sites/apps on) the Elasticsearch database (which was operating as a cache layer for the Twitter API) did not make the cut. It just took too much memory that I was not interested in keeping up with.

So Spacebird is no more.
I am still very excited for Twitter Spaces though!

After getting some initial feedback from some good people, I added the top Spaces to the home page of Spacebird.io.

So now when you open the site, you will see the 10 most popular Spaces directly on the home page. No need to search anything. These "top" Spaces are sorted by their participant count, then by their start date/time.

After about a week of hacking away, I just pushed the first version of Spacebird to production. It is a very simple way to search for and find new Twitter spaces to listen to.

At the time of making this, Twitter does not have a full official way to search for Spaces to listen to. Eventually, they will start rolling out this ability. At which point, this site may no longer be useful. I am not sure how I feel about that...