We've tried to focus Notejoy on being as intuitive as possible to support any kind of team. Because of this, we've seen a variety of teams beyond just startups adopt Notejoy, including coffee shops, law firms, freelancers, agencies, coaches, and more.
While we have no plans to go anywhere at Notejoy, we do acknowledge that this fear is very real. So to address it we support full bulk export of all your notes to Google Drive at any point, so you can rest assured that you'll always be able to take them with you.
Would love folks to check out our app, Notejoy, at https://notejoy.com - an Evernote alternative with apps for Mac, PC, iOS, web, and Android coming soon. Complete with markdown support, integrations with Slack, Trello, G Suite, and Office. Powerful search with snippets & highlights. Great for team collaboration as well, with real-time editing, threaded comments, and more. Would love your thoughts!
Appreciate the feedback! I assume you got that impression because of the homepage's focus on collaboration as opposed to just individual productivity? Turns out we've focused a lot on individual productivity features and have lots of folks using it that way, but we leaned into the collaborative notes messaging for our homepage since that's what truly makes us unique in the space.
Sachin Rekhi here, YC alum from 2007. Wanted to throw a plug out for our app Notejoy: https://notejoy.com
We've built Notejoy as a collaborative notes app. So it's not only great for personal notes, but also great for easily sharing notes with your team with real-time editing, @mentions, threaded comments, and more.
But also built with a lot of the productivity features you expect from a note-taking app, including Mac, Windows, iOS apps, keyboard shortcuts / markdown accelerators, syntax highlighting, clean distraction-free interface, and more.
Hey HN! Just opened up my new app to more users. Trying to build a powerful productivity app that's also great at team collaboration as I've always felt in the past tools have been mainly one or the other. Would love any feedback from the community!
I definitely agree that there will always be and should be services that are free while others that are paid.
However, I think what we saw in the last 5 years was an unhealthy focus on free where products that people may have been willing to pay for were driven to free because they were either subsidized by VC dollars, subsidized by cash cow business like Google's search, or eventual acquisitions by acquirers not necessarily looking for sustainable businesses. This may well have eroded a lot of potential value in that consumers have gotten used to these services being free and will likely not be willing to pay for them in the future.
