Ask HN: What once useful product/services have you stopped using?
Silicon Valley touts that products need to be significantly better, that founder should &quot;build something people want.&quot; I&#x27;ve noticed that over the past 4-5 years, a lot of products&#x2F;services I once considered essential have completely dropped from my life. On occasion, a better alternative does indeed come along, displacing the old one. Mostly though, my behavior&#x2F;interest changed. I want more control and enjoyment of my time, money, health, and relationships with fewer complexities, and more often than not that means removing products&#x2F;services from my life rather than adding them. It means consolidating services (a single grocery store, a single media platform, a single file storage service) to minimize management of competing products&#x2F;services. It means realizing that &quot;fewer&quot; (or even &quot;nothing&quot;) is often the best option out there.<p>Or it could mean my needs changed and I simply haven&#x27;t found what the next compelling product is.