Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel

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Post by gumby » Fri, Jun 28, 2019, 12:58 PM UTC

Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel
nytimes.com

Re: Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel

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Post by duxup » Fri, Jun 28, 2019, 2:00 PM UTC

Maybe fail fast should also include ... fail cheap?

>Lots of once-hyped companies live on the “Remember this?” spectrum. On one end, there is a cluster of fast flameouts — the Yo-Ello-Peach-Meerkat-Stolen-Clinkle-Secret-Color coterie.

That makes me think someone should create (maybe has) a start-up graveyard for folks to peruse.

Re: Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel

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Post by psychotik » Fri, Jun 28, 2019, 2:16 PM UTC

duxup wrote: post #2

Maybe fail fast should also include ... fail cheap? >Lots of once-hyped companies live on the “Remember this?” spectrum. On one end, there is a cluster of fast flameouts — the Yo-Ello-Peach-Meerkat-Stolen-Clinkle-Secret-Color coterie. That makes me think someone should create (maybe has) a start-up graveyard for folks to peruse.

https://www.reddit.com/r/shutdown/

Re: Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel

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Post by cntlzw » Fri, Jun 28, 2019, 2:18 PM UTC

paywall

Re: Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel

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Post by duxup » Fri, Jun 28, 2019, 2:19 PM UTC

psychotik wrote: post #3

duxup wrote: post #2

Maybe fail fast should also include ... fail cheap? >Lots of once-hyped companies live on the “Remember this?” spectrum. On one end, there is a cluster of fast flameouts — the Yo-Ello-Peach-Meerkat-Stolen-Clinkle-Secret-Color coterie. That makes me think someone should create (maybe has) a start-up graveyard for folks to peruse.

https://www.reddit.com/r/shutdown/

Amusing to see reddit's advertising system put an advertisement from Triplebyte on there and looks like almost any other post ;)

Re: Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel

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Post by elorant » Fri, Jun 28, 2019, 2:23 PM UTC

duxup wrote: post #2

Maybe fail fast should also include ... fail cheap? >Lots of once-hyped companies live on the “Remember this?” spectrum. On one end, there is a cluster of fast flameouts — the Yo-Ello-Peach-Meerkat-Stolen-Clinkle-Secret-Color coterie. That makes me think someone should create (maybe has) a start-up graveyard for folks to peruse.

https://www.failory.com/

http://startupgraveyard.io/

Re: Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel

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Post by hartator » Fri, Jun 28, 2019, 2:26 PM UTC

The thing is - what made Evernote great at some point - take a picture of anything and forget it doesn't work anymore.

You can't trust Evernote to have searchable archive anymore. Instead it's a convoluted app with lot of useless features. They lost their focus.

Re: Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel

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Post by kauffj » Fri, Jun 28, 2019, 2:28 PM UTC

http://archive.is/yqb83

(Archive link for those who prefer non-broken web experiences)

Re: Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel

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Post by JohnJamesRambo » Fri, Jun 28, 2019, 2:28 PM UTC

Basing a business on a notepad app seems unwise...

Re: Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel

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Post by duxup » Fri, Jun 28, 2019, 2:29 PM UTC

hartator wrote: post #7

The thing is - what made Evernote great at some point - take a picture of anything and forget it doesn't work anymore. You can't trust Evernote to have searchable archive anymore. Instead it's a convoluted app with lot of useless features. They lost their focus.

I think a lot of the problem is the sort of hook that makes these apps great ... isn't often a sustainable thing or isn't enough to maintain user and/or investor expectations.

There's a lot of gee whiz out there.