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Let me know when you ICO.
The ICO closed in 1985. Did you miss out?
Not if you have a flux capacitor.
Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise
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Re: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise
#52Re: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise
#53Can't recommend notion.so enough as a modern replacement for Evernote.
what's better about it?
I prefer notion because it enables powerful structures around individual notes. From when I used evernote, it was limited to folders of lists of notes sorted by some not very useful criteria (towards the end I was naming my evernote notes with certain prefixes to try to instill more structure), or sets of notes grouped by tag.
In contrast, notion allows notes to coexist with other notes within a single "meta" note, ad nauseum. You can organize them in rows and columns and insert arbitrary text or whatever other content to label notes, for instance. One particularly powerful structure is using notes in a kanban or trello like setup, while enjoying the full evernote-like features provided within any individual note.
Re: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise
#54> “In the past three months (June, July, August), Evernote has been downloaded 2.5 million times worldwide,” a spokesperson for analytics firm Apptopia said. “After store fees, the app has brought in revenues of $2.9 million through in-app purchases.” That seems like... not a lot... for a company that has raised $300 million in funding.
$1 per download isn't enough to pay the bills. That's not much more than a 99¢ game. It means people don't actually value the product enough to pay for it.
Re: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise
#55Still haven't found anything better than Orgzly on Android syncing to the PC and other phones with Syncthing.
Re: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise
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I would be happy if Evernote was "done". I pay for a subscription, I am not interested in paying for new features, I would simply be happy if it went into eternal feature freeze and only did security and compatibility updates. Of course this kind of thing won't happen but maybe it says something about the optimization pitfalls of our economy.
This would never happen for numerous reasons, but imagine if you could fork a company somehow. Take the existing state, but just take it in an entirely different direction. For companies that don't produce physical goods, this would actually be somewhat doable..
I once worked at a company that had a successful product ($40M in sales, $15M in arr via support plans). They did a rewrite, that of course went a year long and was poorly handled by sales and marketing ie it was talked about freely with customers and prospects; contributed to sales drying up while they all waited for the new hotness.
I knew the rewrite was going take a lot longer than they were saying, both due to common sense and because there were conflicting goals from ceo and cto.
I went to the ceo and made a case for a back up plan, myself and a few others could continue on the old busted version; bug fixes and minimal enhancements only, insurance if you will. I really thought about buying it but had no way to finance anything like that. CEO didn’t bite and was in process of selling the company to a PE firm.
I left when the new version finally shipped with half the features and twice the bugs. The PE installed CEO wrecked the sales org and sales never recovered.
As a side note, a foreign firm had pirated a much older version 10 years prior, rebranded and was #3 with it in that market.
Re: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise
#57Oy. I use Evernote because of its excellent image markup. You can mix images and text in notes and really document an image-based or figure-based data flow. Not sure if there's any alternative that does this as well.
The new Apple Notes app does all this beautifully.
This. I used Evernote off and on until the Apple did a big Notes update. I didn't even install Evernote on my newest computer.
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#58I dont know, why there is soo much hate for evernote in here. I understand , the valuation seems crazy. I have been using evernote for years and it suits my needs. I write journals daily and tag them with keywords. That way, i can read my past journal and laugh at myself.
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Open source companies could run on a blockchain and one could have a smart contract to release the source code or access to one's proprietary data upon company going out of business..
Do you even know what going out of business means? Hint: It's not cut and dry. The Amiga company is still in business. Radio Shack still exists. MySpace isn't dead. GeoCities got killed, it didn't go out of business. Smart contracts won't help you here. Blockchains won't help you here. This is a complex legal problem and you're suggesting it's easy, that the Magic of Blockchains will solve it. Whatever man.
One could precisely define solvency conditions. "If cash minus liabilities exceeds $1million, perform_unwind_operation()" _Obviously_ these conditions could entail more complex business logic
Obviously this idea is getting HNmocked and I'm not going to be able to talk my way out of it, and yes I realize that ideas of property ownership and managing contract disputes are one of the cornerstone of the justice system and society itself.
In that way I am somewhat of a crypto radicalist and I'm talking my book as I do have a long crypto position.
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Do you even know what going out of business means? Hint: It's not cut and dry. The Amiga company is still in business. Radio Shack still exists. MySpace isn't dead. GeoCities got killed, it didn't go out of business. Smart contracts won't help you here. Blockchains won't help you here. This is a complex legal problem and you're suggesting it's easy, that the Magic of Blockchains will solve it. Whatever man.
One could precisely define solvency conditions. "If cash minus liabilities exceeds $1million, perform_unwind_operation()" _Obviously_ these conditions could entail more complex business logic Obviously this idea is getting HNmocked and I'm not going to be able to talk my way out of it, and yes I realize that ideas of property ownership and managing contract disputes are one of the cornerstone of the justice system an…
That definition would make a lot of healthy companies arbitrarily bankrupt. Not many companies keep their assets in cash.
Plus this also presumes that people report faithfully, accurately, and that zero mistakes are made.
The biggest problem with immutable ledgers and smart contracts is simple: Shit happens.