Springpad is shutting down

All for respecting the dead, but I'm more curious in terms of how you can have 5 million users and still need to shut down. Any commentary on whether it's a monetization issue or more along the lines of "5 million isn't worth the VC"?

Re: Springpad is shutting down

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Post by izacus » Sun, Jun 01, 2014, 9:11 PM UTC

Ugh, sorry to see them go, their idea of how notes app should look like pretty much complemented my workflow.

Having migrated everything to Evernote... it just reminded me just how atrocious their web and Android apps are UX wise.

Re: Springpad is shutting down

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Post by VLM » Sun, Jun 01, 2014, 9:29 PM UTC

pccampbell wrote: post #8

All for respecting the dead, but I'm more curious in terms of how you can have 5 million users and still need to shut down. Any commentary on whether it's a monetization issue or more along the lines of "5 million isn't worth the VC"?

https://springpad.com/blog/2014/05/springpad-says-goodbye/

"As part of closing our business, a portion of our team is joining Google."

So those are the facts. My probably inaccurate opinion is an acqui-hire gone somewhat off the rails.