Our passion and our mission was to give you
the best way to make and share beautiful movies
made from the photos and videos on your phone.
Well, someone noticed!
...Ptch will shut down on January 2, 2014What type of announcement do you expect?
We appreciate that you signed up for and used our product.
Things haven't gone as well as we had hoped and we're
exhausted. The truth is we'd be shutting down the site
in due time anyway but this is a better option for us and
doesn't make any real difference for you, our user.
It says they launched a year ago so this particular company was still very new. It may not apply to them but I imagine this applies to most acqui-hires.Edit: here's a thought.
Thanks again for your support of Product since our launch. It means the world to us, and it's been a terrific ride for us. Unfortunately, we haven't seen the broad usage of our service necessary to sustain it and we'll be shutting it down in X months. Luckily, BigCo is acquiring our team, which means that we'll have jobs making their quasi-similar product even better.
Here's how you get your data: (blah)
Here are some similar services you may want to consider moving to: (blah)
And then they were gone. I use Pidgin now, but I prefer just having it in the browser to use on any machine any time.
It was publicly available in the iOS App Store but didn't get much traction. I'm not sure what's left of the team, as I believe all of the original mobile engineers were already poached.
Can anyone tell me what ptch actually did?
"Make a ptch (pronounced "pitch") by combining the photos and videos on your phone, or using media from your social networks, like Facebook or Instagram.
Personalize it by easily adding captions, music, and effects."
/jk