In-house R&D Google Area 120 has shut down the Museletter platform, which went live just three months ago. As stated on the project's website, Area 120 products are designed to quickly test new approaches and explore the company's capabilities. Google has closed 244 such projects, but none of them lived as little as Museletter.

The specialized media discovered the platform in September this year. Back then, Area 120 claimed that Museletter was one of Google's many experimental projects, and did not comment on its work. The experiment will end on December 20. After that, the department will shut down the site and delete the data that the project has (for example, users' email addresses).

The platform allows content creators to monetize their content through Google Drive. Users upload a file to the cloud storage, after which Museletter makes a post out of it and publishes it on the site. Access to materials is carried out by paid subscription or free of charge, at the request of the author. In fact, this is an analogue of the Patreon site or other similar services, only using Google Drive.

The developers did not say if this functionality will appear in existing Google services. As 9to5google pointed out, it would fit well with the Google Workspace Individual set. Through a platform like Museletter, it would be easy to publish files to paid or free access, for example, from "Google Docs" and "Google Sheets". In fact, the platform can be used as a repository for work.

Given that Museletter has been relatively well received by web users, this functionality may indeed appear on a full-fledged basis. The only concern is that Google has already closed 244 such projects. A separate website has even been created for them, where you can see the release and closing dates of products. Among them, Museletter broke an anti-record for existence, having lived only three months. Before him, the record holders were uWeave (four months) and Mashable (five months).

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