Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices

Re:Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices by tajen on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @06:46PM (#10300347)

> took a bunch of VC money

Notes-taking apps have the competition of <div contenteditable="true"/>. There isn't much left to do for a notes-taking app: Everything else is bells and whistles.

Responsibilities should be called here. Dropbox, Evernote, Slack and GitHub are all 4 hosting a massive free service, highly replaceable with cheap alternatives, with low switching costs. I sincerely hope the VCs who invest in those companies have another plan than "Add more features forever".

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Re:Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices by volaski on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @11:26PM (#10301538)

Can't take you seriously when you say Github is highly replaceable. Try and go hosting your open source project on some obscure hosted code repository, let me know when you get lots of contributors.

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Re:Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices by michaelt on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @10:22AM (#10304149)

Oh, the free part of Github isn't easily replaceable. It's great for hosting open source projects.

But the private repos and the on-site offering - the things people pay for? Fair bit of competition there.

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Re:Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices by stephenr on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @08:47AM (#10303481)

Quality > Quantity.

Open Source projects existed a long time before GitHub, and will exist a long time after the cool kids abandoned it for whatever reason.

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