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Re: Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off

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Post by heywhatupboys »

slg wrote: post #46
julianz wrote: post #7

I wonder how that 100 year guarantee is holding up? https://longnow.org/ideas/evernote-and-the-100-year-data-gua...

>Evernote CEO Phil Libin announced at the recent Le Web London conference that the company will soon set up a protected fund and include a legally binding guaratee that users’ data will be maintained for 100 years That almost sounds like a threat to commit a crime in certain jurisdictions. A lot has changed regarding how we talk about data in the last decade.

So much shit here against GDPR which is basically:

1. if you want your data removed, companies HAVE to remove your data

2. if you don't want your data stored, companies CANNOT store your data

and then a bunch of if-when-then-else-must-cannot-time-dependent-legal-stuff

Re: Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off

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Post by anta40 »

hu3 wrote: post #67
vzaliva wrote: post #34

Personal journey: I used to be a heavy user of Evernote, but encountered a bug that the developers were not keen on fixing promptly. It was then that I realized the importance of personal notes surviving beyond companies, apps, and formats. Quickly after, I switched to a collection of plain text files using org-mode markdown and have been happy ever since.

That's why I use https://github.com/laurent22/joplin It's markdown, open-source, free. With desktop and mobile support. Syncs notes to any cloud of your choice for free. (I use One Drive) Optionaly you can pay them to sync your data on their cloud. So they even have a compelling business model!

Hmm... another Electron-based app (already have VSCode, Postman, Beekepper Studio).

But oh well, let's give it a try :D

Re: Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off

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Post by DeathArrow »

bayindirh wrote: post #279
devjab wrote: post #272

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is Google drive more free to use than Dropbox? As soon as you need any sort of storage it’ll cost you money. You can also get some free MBs from Microsoft, Proton and so on, and, Dropbox also has a free tier.

Google Drive's yearly cost for 2TB is almost equal to monthly payment for Dropbox for the same capacity. However, Dropbox have some underrated yet very powerful features like Apps and automations. I buy books from plethora of places, and new versions of the products I have are uploaded automatically. I just receive a notification. Same for some fonts and design assets I have. SendOwl leverages this capability for any…

>Google Drive's yearly cost for 2TB is almost equal to monthly payment for Dropbox for the same capacity.

Dropbox costs €10 / user / month while Google Drive costs $12 / user / month.

Re: Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off

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Post by DeathArrow »

D13Fd wrote: post #110
TheMiddleMan wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't you think having so many competitors offering free notes apps is a large part of it?

He gave the Obsidian example, which is a great one, so no. Obsidian shows you can still do well as a noted app company if you are selling the right thing (sync).

But you can sync your Obsidian notes for free if you use free Dropbox or OneDrive accounts.

Re: Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off

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Post by fluidcruft »

benhurmarcel wrote: post #242
ramraj07 wrote: post #208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like Dropbox has made the transition just fine. If you’re gonna ask me to pay a tenner a month you better give me what I think is the dollars worth of value. Dropbox did. Evernote did not. At least not for the vast majority of people who barely take some notes on some rare days.

Dropbox never took away anything they gave for free though. In the beginning they handed out extra space like candies, and the accounts that got it at the time still have it.

I dropped Dropbox with extreme prejudice (was a paying customer) when they decided to dictate which Linux filesystems I may use. Will never use them ever again. Randomly demanding I drop everything and re-engineer my stack is an invitation for me to re-engineer them out of my life.

Re: Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off

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Post by bayindirh »

DeathArrow wrote: post #293
bayindirh wrote: post #279

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google Drive's yearly cost for 2TB is almost equal to monthly payment for Dropbox for the same capacity. However, Dropbox have some underrated yet very powerful features like Apps and automations. I buy books from plethora of places, and new versions of the products I have are uploaded automatically. I just receive a notification. Same for some fonts and design assets I have. SendOwl leverages this capability for any…

>Google Drive's yearly cost for 2TB is almost equal to monthly payment for Dropbox for the same capacity. Dropbox costs €10 / user / month while Google Drive costs $12 / user / month.

For me, the prices are as follows:

    - Dropbox: $119.88 per year for 2TB, plus $39.99 per year for one year version history.
    - Google Drive: ~$11.3 per year for 2TB, ~$57 per year for 5TB.
Not in the U.S., btw.

Re: Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off

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Post by travelhead »

mangosteenjuice wrote: post #81
travelhead wrote: post #41

I invested $25,000 into buying secondary equity shares of Evernote about 1.5 years ago. In January, I got an exit check back for $120 bucks after the sale to Bending Spoon :/

How did you buy it?

EquityZen

Re: Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off

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Post by travelhead »

BaseballPhysics wrote: post #113
travelhead wrote: post #41

I invested $25,000 into buying secondary equity shares of Evernote about 1.5 years ago. In January, I got an exit check back for $120 bucks after the sale to Bending Spoon :/

Let me guess: options were going to expire?

No options. It’s secondary equity from EquityZen.

Re: Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off

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Post by valjaer »

Honestly new features is something I would go away from, not pay for.

Apps these days treat my device as something created so that they could update on it, not so I could use it. I would pay to "freeze the 2009 versions on my devices forever". Software that just works.

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