Beetight has closed

After 15 years, thousands of users, hundreds of thousands of hives and billions of bees, Beetight has closed.

Why Beetight closed

When I created the first version of Beetight over the Christmas holidays in 2009 I never could have imagined that 15 years later it would still have tens of thousands of users still actively using it. Since that time I have switched jobs several times, got married and had two children. I also sadly developed an allergy to bees, so haven't kept any for ten years.

Throughout this time I have tried to keep Beetight maintained, because I know so many people are still finding it useful. This included developing entirely new versions of the mobile apps in 2017. Most recently I updated the web app to newer versions of the underlying software and moved it to new hosting this year. I have not been able to give it the attention it needs though, and the mobile apps in particular are now running on old APIs that mean they are not available for the latest devices. The underlying software means it has been hard to update it, so I have been tackling a rewrite, which has taken far longer than I'd hoped, as it has to be all done in my free time. I've now had to accept that it is too much work for me to maintain two mobile apps and a web app. The final impetus is that new policies for Android and iOS mean that if the apps are to remain available they will need to be updated, which is not possible right now.

Timeline

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Matt Kane