The Insteon vanishing act

wolfliving:

Into the tall weeds of  a modern IoT bankruptcy.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/22/insteon_shutdown_explained/

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The former CEO of Smartlabs and Insteon, Rob Lilleness, appears to be concerned that the failure of his company might haunt him: he initially changed his LinkedIn profile to omit any mention of Smartlabs or Insteon and reduced his display name to initials. Then after the unannounced shutdown of Insteon’s servers was reported, his LinkedIn profile disappeared completely.

That prompted one visitor to Reddit’s /r/Insteon forum to post a screen capture of the company’s suddenly coy management. Insteon’s leadership-bios page at the time this story was filed returned a “404 not found” error. Another forum visitor has taken the opportunity to acquire the domain Insteoff.com and populate it with a single-page website that makes the company’s shutdown more evident.

Insteon’s goodbye message acknowledges the “extraordinary following and community” that developed around the firm’s IoT products – a group that clearly resents being blindsided by a deal closed on March 22, 2022 and was made public by a server shutdown only a few days ago. And it expresses hope that a buyer can be found before concluding with a statement of regret…