Four former CoScreen founders released Petal, an open-source pair programming tool, after Datadog shut down CoScreen in July 2026. The release highlights a recurring industry pattern where beloved collaboration tools are acquired by platforms and then discontinued as standalone products.
Background
ScreenHero was acquired by Slack in 2015 and shut down in 2017. CoScreen was acquired by Datadog in 2022 and sunset in July 2026, continuing a trend of collaborative developer tools being discontinued after acquisition.
- Source
- Hacker News (RSS)
- Published
- Oct 15, 2026 at 02:23 AM
- Score
- 6.0 / 10