Kindex revisited, a document-based online searchable archive

 

https://app.kindex.org/

My first blog post mentioning Kindex.org was posted in 2015. Kindex.org is one of the survivors. Over the past few years, I have seen dozens of genealogy-oriented start-ups come and go. It was interesting every year at the large RootsTech.org conference, to walk around the vendor floor and see all the "new" companies. One year the big push was on storytelling companies, other years the emphasis has been on publishing companies. According to the Small Business Administration, this is the failure rate of small businesses. 

About two-thirds of businesses with employees survive at least 2 years and about half survive at least 5 years. As one would expect, after the first few relatively volatile years, survival rates flatten out. (Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Business Employment Dynamics.)

 I have been involved in a number of small businesses over the years and I am well aware of the statistics. However, our family operated graphic-design business lasted more than 30 years until all of us got too old to continue. 

Kindex.org has found a niche using the freemium model where there is a free entry level and then a staged premium level. I will be writing more about Kindex.org in the future.