Evernote used to be a one-of-a-kind product. It made a lot of key people filthy rich, and then it sort of lost traction.

I was listening to Gergely Orosz’s podcast[1] on Bending Spoons and found out that Evernote’s codebase was a complete mess and beyond repair.

[1]: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/twisting-the-rule...