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# How to close an online service gracefully
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2012/11/how_to_close_an_online_service_gracefull/
- Published: 2012-11-21T12:05:53.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T15:48:45.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: content, customer service, online tools, startups

[![Festive Adam](https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/11/4de67896376bbfaa8b3e4adbe6850c31-thumb-500x375-2896.jpg?resize=500%2C375)](https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/11/4de67896376bbfaa8b3e4adbe6850c31.jpg?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)The problem with today’s startup-centric web culture is that increasing numbers of services fail or get sold, and they close down, taking their content with them. [DailyBooth](http://dailybooth.com/dashboard?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) was a hot site, particualry amongst teens and 20-somethings, a couple of years ago. It encouraged you to shoot a daily photo of yourself using your webcam and upload it to the service. I played with it a little, and then it dropped from my conciousness.

Well, the service is now closing, and they dropped users an e-mail with insturctions on how to grab their content. I did so, and then left it as an archive in my downloads folder for a while. I finally got around to dealing with it this morning, and found, to my delight, not just a folder of images, but a set of HTML files with the photos. One quick upload to my server later, and you can now [see my (brief) history with DailyBooth](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/dailybooth/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) captured for posterity.

The contrast with online polls service Vizu which sent an e-mail saying that the service was closing – and that we should screengrab or *print out* – on paper no less – our polls is rather marked…