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Definitely thought some of these issues were just me. My hypothesis is that Evernote gets increasingly unstable the more notes (and data) you have stored. Which sucks because I have over 1200 and I pretty much need Evernote at this point. The desktop app is damn near unusable, takes forever to create a new note.

I no longer trust that they will always have all of my notes, so I started to back them up to Dropbox via the HTML export. But I'm lazy, haven't done it for a while.

Perhaps this is an opportunity for a new company to do what Evernote is doing, better. Automatic backups to Dropbox, lighting fast no matter how many notes stored, reliable and instant syncing, etc.

Got it, thanks. We'll have a better editorial process moving forward, sorry for the errors guys.

Yonas from Leanstack here. I also edited for grammar after the initial transcription and it looks like his full statement was inaudible. So *Eric was simply saying that Heroku Postgres does not support PHP (https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-postgresql). I'll be making the corrections soon.

Yup, typo from an audio transcription. Glad you liked the content though :)

We've actually have more detailed posts now (i.e. http://blog.leanstack.io/the-cloud-stack-that-helped-sendgri...). But I'm with you on context, we're going the interview route moving forward. Glad to chat with you and anyone else to brainstorm and see how I can be helpful though. Feel free to email me at yonas@leanstack.io.

Yup, that's exactly what we're doing at Leanstack.io. Let's chat!

Sorry everyone. Just switched to nearlyfreespeech, thought they could handle it. Trying to work through it now.

Awesome post. I've listed out my "Cloudstack" on Leanstack at http://alpha.leanstack.io/users/yonasb. Just launched the alpha would love some feedback from you guys, just ping me at yonas@leanstack.io if you're interested or sign up on the site. Thanks!

Great observation. When I clicked "Try a search" it pulled up people I am friends with who live in my city, but as I scrolled down I saw people I am not friends with included as well. Seems like the next logical step.

I'm really surprised that he didn't just recommend that they do away with Product Managers altogether.

This is probably the best Product Management approach I've heard of for early startups: http://www.quora.com/Stripe-company/Does-Stripe-have-product...

Telling a developer to use something sounds like a bad strategy, we hate being told what to use. My cofounder and I are developers, and we've talked to a handful of other developers, and we've found that SaaS is appropriate for a lot of things. Others you definitely want to build yourself. But a lot of it depends on what stage your company is currently at. There's a reason all the big companies like SaaS, it's less resources they have to devote to something that is not core to their business.

Looking at your profile, it seems like you're speaking from experience. Have you found that selling to marketing and sales folks was more effective for your own business?

The sentence where I stated: "It seems like people are starting to wake up to the idea that startups should more closely resemble traditional businesses and actually make money by charging for a service they provide (radical concept)." was meant to be sarcastic. Guess that didn't come across...

Sorry, updated the post.

Sorry, perhaps this wasn't clear in my post. B2D (Business 2 Developer) refers to SaaS being sold to developers.

So I'm guessing this is just like Fluid then? http://fluidapp.com/

Pocket hasn't revealed their plans for monetization moving forward, but this post does a great job of explaining free vs paid, and why free is sometimes necessary: http://blog.ideashower.com/post/21276590202/why-pocket-went-...

Great post, I generally agree with it. But the homerun lure is too strong right now. If it were me, I would probably step up and swing if I were in your shoes. If funding is easy, let it be easy and do what you have to do when the climate changes. Adapt

Love this: "So now that I’ve perhaps unfairly ridiculed you, let’s just recognize what’s really going on, because it’s wonderful and amazing and fantastic and exciting"

Most posts like this just bitch and moan, but he actually provides valuable advice.

Totally agree with this post. If they're going to build a long-term business, they need another model. The fact that they are now allowing developers to offer paid apps hints towards where they may be headed. Although, I don't see myself ever paying for a fb app

Finally, a way to easily share HN posts! Had to adjust the styling using Stylebot, title fonts are way too big... Can you add an Instapaper button? Would be really helpful

Totally agree. Not sure if that's the case across the board with VC's but it does make sense.

I don't like these "where's the innovation" posts, too negative. There's lots of exciting software being built. I will however admit that, in general, the Glass Project was the most exciting thing I've seen in a while. So maybe this is really about the lack of innovation in the hardware space

The big consumer electronics companies should be really scared right now. Hardware startups are coming. Wouldn't be surprised if some hardware incubators start popping up too

Totally agree, we should all start charging. As a user, I've become ridiculously cheap. And it's not the price, it's how the ecosystem has evolved. I'm used to free apps now. We need to get people to be used to paying for apps. Not easy though, will only work if everyone starts doing it...

Yes!

One phrase comes to mind after reading this: "so what." It's not about what the terms say, it's about how they're enforced. I don't see any users getting sued, just a bunch of stories on how you could potentially get sued.

This reminds me of that Bill Nguyen article, where he revealed he had never even used Facebook until recently, claiming he doesn't keep up with tech. If you're a startup founder, you can't afford to be uninformed about your competition and the industry. The answer is not reading less, but reading smarter. I don't know what the solution is, but it sure isn't limiting my consumption to 1 or 2 articles.

Nobody seems to be talking about the obvious issue here: they are essentially asking us to trust them again when they tell us they have deleted everyone's contact info from their servers. "We fucked up. But we fixed it, trust us." Am I the only one that finds this odd?

Exactly what I was thinking when I read this. If their users had been parents 40+, I'm willing to bet they'd have a slightly different reaction.