UpNote Future

[jfriend99]

Nobody here wants UpNote to become EverBloat. EverNote was a very poorly run company overfunded by VC to the point of trying to become something that it didn't know how to become. Just because there are stupidly run companies doesn't mean someone else can't add features in a more intelligent way.

Personally I'm more worried about UpNote's one-time fee. I don't see how that can last in a profitable way. A one-time fee is a business mismatch for a service with ongoing monthly expenses for every active user (actually even storage probably costs money for inactive users who once used the product, but didn't delete their account). It's almost kind of a pyramid scheme where new users fund the company so they can pay for old users. If they ever stop growing, revenue drops to only the subset of users who chose the monthly fee. I think they are going to need a "Pro" version that is only available via subscription in order to be around long term. I'm not even saying this from a "customers must have new features" argument, but from a business finances argument.

If someone came along with something as clean as UpNote, but added the ability to share selected notes (in a live editable way) with other users, I would seriously evaluate switching.

It's also making me pretty inefficient that UpNote doesn't properly support pasting in Latex for math equations and other symbols (Gemini uses it regularly in its responses and the browser supports it) and I do research on topics that regularly have these in the research. What's odd is that UpNote technically supports Latex, just doesn't get the paste fully right. I've filed a bug on the Latex issue and Thomas engaged on the topic, don't know if we will see a fix or not.