Bending Spoons is where products go to die.

Maybe going against the grain but I think their product philosophy is actually really interesting. They basically just buy the database. Then throw out the crappily built product, with years of tech debt and cruft, and rebuild it leanly, with a small team, low overheads, and ruthlessly optimise for efficiency, and amortise shared in-house resources across the product portfolio.

There's a strong logic to that.

	▲	rchaud 20 hours ago \| parent [-]
		In other words, the private equity sales pitch. You left out the bit about jacking up the price and milking customers for every penny until their contracts expire.

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tonyedgecombe a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'd rather Bending Spoons than Broadcom. I can still use Komoot but I can't even access my license codes from VMWare.

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bwb a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ive been happy with all the improvements they are making to Komoot do far.

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piraccini 21 hours ago | parent [-]

I used it this we and I found it's really worst than one year ago. In detail: - It was blocking my phone, and one time I had to restart it - It's VERY hard now to find my planned trips

But maybe this is because I do a very basic usage. Uninstalled, though.

	▲	bwb 18 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm suprised, as nothing was changed around saved trips or collections. Same UX as always there. I'm a heavy user; I use it to plan 3-week-long trips and another month-long trip every year. It has improved, and they do a ton of user interviews to improve it. So far I've been happy. I'm not happy they fired the old team, but I put that on the sellers and I don't know what was going on there or the company's finances.

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TMWNN 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I have lately seen steady improvements in Evernote.