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The next place you move it too will be developers giving away the service for free thinking they can be profitable down the road but what they don't know is tha

The next place you move it too will be developers giving away the service for free thinking they can be profitable down the road but what they don't know is that they have millions of you as their customer. They will shutdown and then you move on to the next free service. The issue with evernote is that they applied the get big quick model fir customer acquisition and they scooped up a lot of tuna instead if samon. Compare this to slack which applied a more targeted approach to customer acquisition with a more focused product. Evernote needs to weed out customers like you as quickly as possible but it will require a more streamlined product.

virmundi 12y ago
I agree that they need to get rid of the freeloaders like me. My issue with Evernote is that I don't think I'd get 5 bucks a month of value from it. I would get 1 dollar a month value. I'd even be willing to pay 12 bucks up front for the year. I wonder if they could move to a model like that. They'd give away the server for a 1 month trial, afterwards have a 12 dollar, non-refundable yearly rent fee.
- nashequilibrium 12y ago
  The reason why you and Evernote have a perceived mismatch on value is because Evernote does not fully solve your need, but it does for some people. This is their problem, they have so many products which are so so and rely on the user to select and create their experience. Most people won't take the time to explore all the different products and how to fit them together. This is why Evernote says its best when described by a friend but others might say that the best products are an opinionated system directed at a specific type of user and demographic. You could have an Evernote for designers or developers or accountants or bloggers or researchers or wallstreet analysts but these would have to look totally different to get the love from its users. Bottom line Evernote is too general for most.

virmundi 12y ago

I agree that they need to get rid of the freeloaders like me. My issue with Evernote is that I don't think I'd get 5 bucks a month of value from it. I would get 1 dollar a month value. I'd even be willing to pay 12 bucks up front for the year. I wonder if they could move to a model like that. They'd give away the server for a 1 month trial, afterwards have a 12 dollar, non-refundable yearly rent fee.

nashequilibrium 12y ago
The reason why you and Evernote have a perceived mismatch on value is because Evernote does not fully solve your need, but it does for some people. This is their problem, they have so many products which are so so and rely on the user to select and create their experience. Most people won't take the time to explore all the different products and how to fit them together. This is why Evernote says its best when described by a friend but others might say that the best products are an opinionated system directed at a specific type of user and demographic. You could have an Evernote for designers or developers or accountants or bloggers or researchers or wallstreet analysts but these would have to look totally different to get the love from its users. Bottom line Evernote is too general for most.