You know what _really_ sucks about this? They're closing off the API & got rid of their evangelists.
Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices
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#12It seems like a smart move to focus on the features that are most useful to their core users instead of trying to be everything to everybody.
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#13businessinsider had a great article on evernote here, "Evernote, the first dead unicorn", which really foreshadowed this: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/evernote-the-first-dead-un...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10218915
(Note: The BusinessInsider article was a re-publication of the original on syrah.co.)
Re: Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices
#14businessinsider had a great article on evernote here, "Evernote, the first dead unicorn", which really foreshadowed this: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/evernote-the-first-dead-un...
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#16> Evernote’s strength is in its core: notes, sync, and search. That’s where we’re going to focus. Well, like many others, I've been wishing Evernote would drop all the auxiliary stuff and focus on their core product. Hopefully that's exactly what will now happen. Evernote has become an absolutely critical part of my life. Even though I use it for business (along with everything else) though, I have no use for the maj…
Genuinely curious. I've noted that they seem to have multiple apps in the AppStore doing similar things.
Re: Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices
#17businessinsider had a great article on evernote here, "Evernote, the first dead unicorn", which really foreshadowed this: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/evernote-the-first-dead-un...
They are similar in that they haven't made anything note worthy in a while and their main product is really just a feature of bigger companies apps and services.
Re: Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices
#18businessinsider had a great article on evernote here, "Evernote, the first dead unicorn", which really foreshadowed this: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/evernote-the-first-dead-un...
Re: Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices
#19> Evernote’s strength is in its core: notes, sync, and search. That’s where we’re going to focus. Well, like many others, I've been wishing Evernote would drop all the auxiliary stuff and focus on their core product. Hopefully that's exactly what will now happen. Evernote has become an absolutely critical part of my life. Even though I use it for business (along with everything else) though, I have no use for the maj…
But it looks like they found out themselves, eventually... ;)
Re: Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices
#20I know that it is the common vernacular, but you didn't let them go, you fired them. Surely they would prefer to not go and continue to pay their mortgage. I'm sure it wasn't easy to fire them, but don't try and make the situation rosey. The folks who decided on the direction of the company decided wrong and now they have to fire the people who executed those decision. Edit: Would you all prefer the word "Terminated"…