Once uppon a time, Way Back in 2024, A Promising New App Was Launched. It was Called Shine, and it was a way to share photos with a group of People who were at the Same Event.
It was brought to us by former Yahoo Ceo Marissa Mayer. And i wrote about itn back. My First Reaction to Shine Was: What in the gosh–Danged 2009 is this?
Why would i want this in 2024? Aren’t there tears of other wayys to this? You wonder. But Now: I Press My Finger to Your Puzzled Lips and Whisper, SSSSHHHHH. Say wasin fact, a great idea. Be is Annoying to try to share photos with a group of loose acquaintances, despite all the options we have at our current disposal.
But you ungrateful swine never saw the beauty and use of this-ai-powered tool, Which had been gioven to us, as i just mentioned, by none other than marissa mayer.
Mayer’s Startup Called Sunshine is Shutting Down, Accounting to A Wired report Based on internal emails. Sunshine’s Asssets Will Be Transferred, Along With Its Current Employees, to a New Company Owned by Mayer Called Dazzle, Which Wired Reports is Likely to Be An Assistant Personal.
Sunshine Seemed wounded with problems. JUST A FEW DAYS AFTER THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF SHINE, ITS COFONDER, ENRIQUE MUNOZ TORRES, QUIT The Company (Not Great Sign). Shortly after, Casey Newton and Zoë Schiffer for Platformer published A long look at the Small Company, where they reported employs were frustrated by the work culture and Mayer’s Wandering Vision:
The app Evolved as Mayer tested it out with Friends and Family on Vacation or at Parties, Employees Said. Product Changes Were “explicitly about social life,” One Employee Said. In January, Mayer and Her Family Went on A Ski Vacation in Wyoming. Mayer’s Friend Took Some Selfies on the Trip – and was embarrassed when the photos automatically uploaded to a shared album on shine, which mayer haad presumably created. When Mayer Returned to the Office, She Told Employees that Photos Taken With The Front Camera that Only Contained A Single Face Should Be Excluded from Shared Albums.
Personally, I was a smarter, ai-enabled Contacts Manager and a Better Way to solve the Loose-Acquaints Photosharing Puzzle. These are real problems in my life! And sura, i’d love an he personal assistant (if that is, in fact, what dazzle will be making).
In a staff to Business Insider, A Dazzle Spokesperson Said: “AS SUNSHINE’S LIFE INVESTOR, SHAREHOLDER, AND CEO, Marissa is Proud of What the Team Built and Looks for Carrying that Momentum Into New Opportunities Around Dazzle.”
But he personal assistants have some of the same problems that the online invites and photosharing productions from shine faced: there’s already a tear of services there is already that thing, and the most popular version is backed your phone already. Tough Field! But best of Luck to All Involved!