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by pridkett 521 days ago
Evernote also had an ownership change as they were sold to Bending Spoons. Bending Spoons then moved development to Europe and raised prices.
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rednafi 521 days ago
Bending Spoons is an Italian sweatshop with a ton of cash lying around. Anything they touch turns into poop, and as an employer, their reputation is terrible.

But somehow, they have a ton of cash influx that they use to acquire struggling businesses quite frequently.

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benatkin 521 days ago
The enpoopification of Evernote was already well underway by the time they acquired it.

https://www.theregister.com/2013/08/14/evernote_api_limits/

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rednafi 521 days ago
Evernote used to be a one-of-a-kind product. It made a lot of key people filthy rich, and then it sort of lost traction.

I was listening to Gergely Orosz’s podcast[1] on Bending Spoons and found out that Evernote’s codebase was a complete mess and beyond repair.

[1]: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/twisting-the-rule...

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geodel 521 days ago
Beside Evernote which I never used I like the word enpoopification which has nicer ring to it than enshittification.

I see just so much potential to it. It could be linkedIn profiles: Leader|Innovator|Enpooper . Enpoopies awards/badges on forums for questions or blogs like "How can/did we replace aging RabbitMQ setup with Kubernetes-Kafka-Cluster"

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