Agreed. I experienced a big. Bug the other day that appeared like it deleted all my notes on my iPad and online and this caused me to finally bite-the-bullet and move my notes to Evernote from my offline iPhone for fear of never being able to access them again.
Was a painful upgrade experience (and the bug resolved itself in 24 hours), but I've suffered similar sync bugs over my time with Simplenote over the past 2 years and I didn't feel safe with the service anymore.
We've had a few growing pains, particularly with 3rd-party apps. We're working with developers to move them to our latest API. If you ever encounter problems, you can email us at support@simplenoteapp.com and we'll do our best to help you out.
Sadly, I too found it unusably buggy. I reported a number of them. Some were fixed, some weren't. Their support response times were great and I really hoped they could get it working smoothly but after a year I was still having issues and it was not to be. Shame because I loved the simplicity.
Very good. I brought a project to Automattic a few years ago and was able to work on it with nearly the same autonomy and freedom I had when I was on my own. Well, one difference, I had more resources and reach to see how far I could take my ideas. Automattic is a great company and one I use as a model for my current venture as it grows up.
I've been a paying Simplenote customer for nearly three years now and love it. I use it for all my TODOs, notes, and other snippets I need to have easily accessible. It's the perfect companion to Notational Velocity.
Congrats guys on the big news. In the brief opportunity that I had to get to know them, they were incredibly intelligent and super-nice and helpful guys.
I sat next to Fred at Startup School a couple of years ago and his encouragement was a big reason that I decided to apply to YC.
Thanks everyone for your congratulations. We're really happy to join a great, growing team with alignment on culture, technology, and vision. There's still a lot of work left to do though. Now back to building things.
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Was a painful upgrade experience (and the bug resolved itself in 24 hours), but I've suffered similar sync bugs over my time with Simplenote over the past 2 years and I didn't feel safe with the service anymore.
Congrats, guys!
I sat next to Fred at Startup School a couple of years ago and his encouragement was a big reason that I decided to apply to YC.
Keep doing great stuff!