Mozilla shutting down Solo AI website creator

rvz

Another Mozilla failure to monetize something and to lose their >80% dependence on Googles money.

Hendrikto

Another unasked for and fruitless side-project from Mozilla that did nothing but burn money and distract from their core product. Who could have seen it coming?

someotherperson

Mozilla will be studied in the future. It's actually a masterful act from Google on how to stifle the competition and protect your bottomline. Really, really wish that Mozilla just shuts down, so that the FOSS community can turn their attention to an actual, intentionally competitive alternative. Would love to see Canonical or similar lead the way here.

eliasebner

I don't even know what this is, but I must say, AI features don't seem to be improving the web experience, so anything AI related is usually not worth keeping (as far as I know, maybe there is something I haven't considered). Mozilla seems to be going down a lot of rather futile side-paths, if you know what I mean. Nobody asked for this? Just make Firefox a better browser, work on the web standards I guess, do the things people actually need.

xacky

Mozilla will do anything but work through the decades old backlog on Bugzilla.

bel8

Whoever came up with this already got their promotion and are probably prompting LLM for the next big thing.

devmor

I don’t understand why Mozilla keeps doing these odd projects. They maintain the only real alternative browser stack to Chrome and rather than keep it up to date and triage bugs, so many resources keep flowing into random AI hype crapware that no one asked for.

amelius

Makes me wonder: how long until we can replace the entire internet by a local AI and nobody would notice? Like a kind of super-Turing test.

martinjc

Since time has come for cutting the fat on initiatives like this website creator. I think other initiatives has gone under the ground, and companies have not answered to why they're cutting those initiatives. In job postings equality suddenly is not as prioritized, and if they are, what i hear it is not prioritized during interview rounds. Who has to answer for these expenditures?

tjwebbnorfolk

An organization that has lost most of its relevance has shut down a product I've never heard of. This is top of HN?

hbcondo714

I just remembered I created a website via Solo when it was released a couple years ago: https://soloist.ai/amarkota Please note the Reviews are auto-generated

ferfumarma

This is the Mozilla brand.

progx

Reasons or details?

m4rtink

Mozilla had something called Solo AI website creator ?

VCFundedGenYer

Nobody ever used this nor heard of this. Mozilla has the dumbest priorities.