(2023-07-08) Tell Hn Nearly All Of Evernotes Remaining Staff Has Been Laid Off

Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off. Its acquirer (Bending Spoons) has taken over operations. They’ve also hiked subscriptions prices and told customers they intend to use new revenues to pay for new features. How they intend to do that without any staff is something I would like to know about.

I 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

Obsidian made the smartest play by giving you the editor, keeping the files outside of a database so that they’re portable (so they feel safe if they ever have to move away), and telling you that if you want to own the sync story that you can, but you can pay to have the cohesive experience on every device.