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Because, as you say it yourself - there is a million note-taking apps out there. Your "differentiator" feature isn't that big of a deal. The UI is ugly-ish. Honestly, if I was an interested investor and you pitched me this I'd be out of that meeting faster than you can say elevator pitch.

It's not a niche, you've got competition that raised a ton of money and is dominating the market and the competition is showing wounds that point at the market being not just saturated but not profitable as much as some investors thought. Don't waste your talents on this.

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Thanks, thecupisblue. This is a "cold shower" - I appreciate you being straight-forward.

I agree that the UI is not the best, that's not what's worrying me :) Initially I've started working on this because I needed an app that does this, this and that - and I could not find one.

As it is now, I am actually using it on regular basis. Right now I am trying to figure out if there are any others looking for the same features - and validate that. Thanks for the input.

Its a nice feature set, but its hard to sell me on a separate app. I persevere with google keep and google calendar even though they are less than ideal because I already have a login for them. For notes at work its one note because everyone else uses it. So great features are less of a sell than convenience for me.

Same here - I only sign-up for services that are a "need" not a "want". If I implement a "Sign up with Google" feature - would you try the app? Thanks for checking!

I'm still not sure. I am not sure it solves any pressing need. Sure Google apps have problems but I can get by with them. It's kind of an 'activation energy' thing where if Google were to cancel keep/calendar I would hunt for another solution. But it might be a .txt file on Dropbox because then again I don't need another service.

It is a bit like JavaScript fatigue. I have SaaS fatigue! Especially as a developer using Azure, Dropbox, Travis, GitHub, Keepass, Google, etc. then at home using Netflix etc.

> I have SaaS fatigue!

I've smiled at this one. Taking a moment to think about it, it's true.

If you've looked at the presentation, one the things I'm looking at - is to market this as a personal device, for exactly that reason. Thanks for input.

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