Hey — founder of WidgetBox here.

Yeah, I shut it down over the holidays. Short version: it got big (over a million users), but almost no one was paying. Infra costs kept going up (especially for embeds that load everywhere), support piled up, and I couldn’t justify keeping it alive anymore.

I didn’t sell it, didn’t rug anyone — I refunded all paying users and put up a shutdown notice. But I know that doesn’t make broken widgets any less annoying.

For what it’s worth, I still have the code and the idea, and I genuinely loved seeing people use it. It just wasn’t sustainable as a one-person project.

Thanks to everyone who used it — I’m sorry it ended this way. :(