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voilaweb.com
Founded
1999
Mothballed
2020

VoilaWeb

VoilaWeb was incorporated in 1999 with the goals of innovating in the domain of online communities, and sharing back with the open source community. This effort yielded the creation of affordable hosting solutions, and many community-buiklding firsts, including geolocation and dynamic profiles.

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militate.com
Founded
2004
Mothballed
2020

Militate/Y-F

Militate was started in 2004 as a cards trading community, quickly growing to more than 10,000 members. It has, since then, gone dormant but remains an example of explosive community growth.

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clicdev.com
Founded
2003
Mothballed
2010

Clic!Dev

Hosting Tens of Thousands of Online Communities since 2003, Clic!Dev pioneered multi-communities interactions and extended profiles.

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twitterified.com
Founded
2001
Mothballed
2010

Twitterified

Twitterified was the first Twitter desktop client to offer management of multimedia messages of arbitrary size. It allows its usesr to interact with its many features intuitively. Twitterified also manages multiple accounts: Twitter, Laconi.ca, etc.

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readysethost.com
Founded
2001
Mothballed
2010

HostingGroup

HostingGroup was founded in 2001 by a group of web hosting experts. HostingGroup specialized in dedicated servers rental, while its daughter branch ReadySetHost provided cheap web hosting.

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gamesmap.com
Founded
2006
Mothballed
2010

GamesMap

GamesMap was a web site dedicated to video game cheats. Fun fact: it was created using a home-grown framework in less than four hours and had been profitable since its inception.

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nexus.zteo.com
Founded
2011
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The Nexus

The Nexus is Chris Ravenscroft's Blog, dedicated to communities management, web development and open-source.

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nextbbs.com
Founded
2011
Mothballed
2014

NextBBS

An Open-Source Community Builder, nBBS v2 was a fusion of the already established nBBSv1 and the promising wtcBB.

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