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Interesting app. But so, isn't this very similar to what something like Evernote does? If so, how do you plan on competing with an application that has been th

Interesting app. But so, isn't this very similar to what something like Evernote does? If so, how do you plan on competing with an application that has been there for much longer and has built quite a plan? Do you think that there's still a market for such applications?(All actual questions)

dangrover 18y ago
There's definitely a market. The biggest competitor is not Evernote but 3M. Actually, my app has been around a bit longer than Evernote. A lot of my customers have told me that they switched to ShoveBox from apps like Yojimbo or Evernote because they really like its interface and the inbox/message/rules metaphor it uses. I don't really have to beat Evernote -- though I certainly want to put a dent in. I wrote a syncing engine for the new app that's actually pretty abstracted out and device-agnostic. So I should be able to get a cloud-based solution rolling pretty quickly if I decide that's the right way to go. But right now, I'm not so distracted with the idea of murdering Evernote. I'm living off the income from my company now -- I don't understand quite how -- and I'm delighted every time another sale comes in. And any incremental improvement in those numbers is awesome. I have ambitious sales targets for the rest of the year, and so far I'm meeting them. But what I'm doing is decidedly not a startup. The goal isn't to take over the world, but to be profitable, do good work, and be happy.