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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.
by rednafi 2y 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.
- benatkin 2y agoThe enpoopification of Evernote was already well underway by the time they acquired it. https://www.theregister.com/2013/08/14/evernote_api_limits/ https://www.theregister.com/2013/08/14/evernote_api_limits/
- rednafi 2y agoEvernote 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-rules-of-building-software https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/twisting-the-rule...
- geodel 2y agoBeside 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"