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?
Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off
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#82I remember when Evernote launched and everyone was super hyped about it -- even some of the biggest VC names promoted them. Not to mention the funding they raised ($290M). It was literally iOS Notes on steroids. I even used it for awhile, but somehow it didn't stick. They hired bunch of great people and had some good backend tech -- sad to see this happen to them.
Didn't Evernote precede Notes? My understanding is that Evernote was the first "notes" app, but I'm old; I could be making shit up in my head.
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#83Not that I doubt this, because it seemed inevitable to my outsider eyes, but do you have any proof of that? I’d recommend getting off of Evernote anyway due to trends. However, is there evidence that this is newly urgent?
Heard directly from impacted employees. 30 to remain of ~300 pre-acquisition. 98 laid off today. No press release, which is why I’m saying something, but you should be able to find people posting on LinkedIn about it.
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#84> If you’re still using Evernote, probably a good time to stop.
I doubt many people do anymore, which is probably the reason it's being dismantled. Sic transit gloria mundi.
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#85> How they intend to do that without any staff Contractors from cheaper cost of living countries, I expect.
They laid off all the employees based out of Chile too.
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#86I feel like Evernote is a prime example of the pains of trying to convert free users to paying users for the same features, something we see in many VC funded software from its era. Once you give something away, it's damn near impossible to take it back, even if you plead your case as honestly as Evernote did. Evernote was great. Honestly, it was worth paying for. But they gave away the farm too early, and folks feel…
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#87What is your source for this?
Not sure of OP's source, but a friend of mine worked there for several years and can confirm. He got let go, too.
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#88Obsidian.md for the win. I used to use evernote way back when they started, was cool software, then they started scaling and added worst search UI I have ever come across. That day, I deleted my account and went markdown with my own storage. Don't see the benefit of why your notes should be controlled by others.
I mostly use Google Keep, which works pretty well. Though the "clippings" feature saving Web articles is pretty cool and doesn't have much of an analogue with that product.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been doing the same for the past few years, but have yet to figure out a good way to sync things between my devices. Not that it bothers me too much, but sometimes I'd like to have that convenience.
I use dropbox to sync.
I've contemplated this, but in general I'm not a big fan of hosting personal files on the cloud if it can be avoided. Maybe if I use rclone and encrypt it...?
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
Git? Syncthing?
I do use Git for source control-purposes, but this is the first time I hear of Syncthing. Would that allow for completely automated and frictionless syncing?
it'll be very good. it won't resolve conflicts for you, though - just like Dropbox or Google Drive also wouldn't. It's last-write-wins, so you either need to keep your devices connected and syncing at all times, or you need to be careful when you edit the same files on different devices.
I use Syncthing for all kinds of things and it's excellent, but it's not really a silver for bullet for mutable data like text files.