Soup.io

Soup.io

Type of business	Privately held company
Headquarters	Vienna (Austria)
Founder(s)	Christopher Clay, Lukas Fittl, Andreas Fuchs
Industry	Microblog service
Launched	April 2007
Current status	Defunct as of 2020

Soup.io was an Austrian social networking and microblogging site.

History

Soup.io allowed the user to publish (editable in HTML) text, images, videos, links, quotes and reviews. It allowed users to share files (within the limit of 10 MB) and create events. Its interface followed the Keep it Simple, Stupid principle (KISS). By March 2015, Soup.io had accumulated a monthly user base of almost 3.8 million.^{[ citation needed ]}

In January 2017, Soup.io suffered data loss, and had to be restored over several weeks from a 2015 backup. ^{[1] [2]}

The site was discontinued on July 20, 2020 due to expenses and declining revenue. ^[3] The domain was later bought by an unrelated content farm. ^[4]

Awards

• Soup.io received an investment during Seedcamp 2008. ^[5]
• Soup.io was classified by the Guardian as one of the essential 100 websites of 2009. ^[6]
• Soup.io was named "Innovative IT-Challenger" by APA – IT in September 2009. ^[7]

References

1. "Update after crash ;)". 13 February 2017. Archived from the original on 10 July 2020.
2. Clay, Christoper (1 February 2017). "I've heard that @soup_io will be coming back online in the next days; but likely with some significant data loss after hardware failure #fyi".
3. "The sadest news in the soup history :(". kitchen.soup.io. 18 August 2020. Archived from the original on 12 July 2020. Retrieved 22 May 2025.
4. Peters, Jay (10 July 2024). "Early Apple tech bloggers are shocked to find their name and work have been AI-zombified". The Verge. Retrieved 22 May 2025.
5. Seedcamp 2008 Archived 10 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
6. "The 100 essential websites". The Guardian. London. 9 December 2009. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
7. "Innovative "IT-Challenger" von APA-IT ausgezeichnet". OTS.at (in German). Retrieved 25 November 2022.