Springpad is shutting down

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by orjan • 12 years ago

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inmyunix• 12 years ago

and no one was surprised

shyn3• 12 years ago

Good for having the export/migrate option.

mcintyre1994• 12 years ago

Especially to Evernote, that's really helpful.

webhat• 12 years ago

Will they open source it?

dsjoerg• 12 years ago

what was springpad

yen223• 12 years ago

IMO a superior version of Evernote.

pccampbell3• 12 years ago

All for respecting the dead, but I'm more curious in terms of how you can have 5 million users and still need to shut down. Any commentary on whether it's a monetization issue or more along the lines of "5 million isn't worth the VC"?

VLM• 12 years ago

https://springpad.com/blog/2014/05/springpad-says-goodbye/

"As part of closing our business, a portion of our team is joining Google."

So those are the facts. My probably inaccurate opinion is an acqui-hire gone somewhat off the rails.

pccampbell3• 12 years ago

Looks less like it though, as there's definitely a postmortem being given about the ebb and flow of freemium/revenue models: http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2014/05/28/five-lessons-for-co...

This begs the question: figure it out later once you have a lot of users or figure it out with a small number of users and then try to get a lot of users?

Obviously not that simple, but curious.

aschobel• 12 years ago

Catch Notes had around the same number of users when we "decided to go in a different direction" last summer.

It was incredibly challenging for us to monetize the service and our user numbers where an order of magnitude off of where things would have been intesting for some investors.

AznHisoka• 12 years ago

Because I doubt they had 5 million engaged, active users.

izacus• 12 years ago

Ugh, sorry to see them go, their idea of how notes app should look like pretty much complemented my workflow.

Having migrated everything to Evernote... it just reminded me just how atrocious their web and Android apps are UX wise.

tr4656• 12 years ago

I'd agree about the web client but what's atrocious about the Android app?

mayel• 12 years ago

I always preferred Springpad's UX and way of structuring data over Evernote's. Not sure why everyone is obessed with the later.

andy_ppp• 12 years ago

Marketing... Springpad for me is much better. Maybe we can recreate it with The Drogulous as a backend?

yabatopia• 12 years ago

I'm a longtime Evernote Premium user and for I while I ran Springpad simultaneously, saving my notes both in Evernote and Springpad. I really liked the Springpad interface, but in the end I decided to stick with Evernote. The main reason? Springpad was free, with no paid plans.

I don't really like free services for important stuff like my personal of professional notes. I want to be sure I'm dealing with a reliable service, with revenue to cover the bills, with a real chance to stick around. It's hard to trust a free service.

inthewoods• 12 years ago

I think their big issue was that they couldn't get to "we're the best at X" - there was no use case where they were top dog. They tried to find it - recipes, etc - but they just couldn't get out of Evernote's shadow. I wasn't surprised when they announced they were shutting down - they were pretty clearly thrashing around, trying to figure it out.

xxxmadraxxx• 12 years ago

Ironic. I switched from Evernote to Springpad a year or so ago, because Evernote was so awful. No great loss though. I never really found much use for either service.

Springpad is shutting down

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