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Automattic Buys Simperium (YC S10), Maker of Simplenote

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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 manage most of my life on Simplenote. Congrats Mike and Fred and I hope to see you soon!

Congratulations! Exciting that they're open sourcing some components, and good to see Automattic is going to keep them going/grow the product.

Seconded! Congratulations Mike, Fred & team.

I hope this results in them improving Simplenote. I find it pretty buggy.

Agreed, lots of glitches that kept me from shelling out for the paid service. I gave it up and went back to Dropbox for OSX <-> Android syncing.

At least the buyer isn't talking about shutting it down.

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.

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.

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.

Keep doing great stuff!

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!

This is a big thing for Simperium. I really hope that Simplenote won't disappear. It is the best notes app for the iPhone.

Congrats! I've been using SimpleNote (iPhone) for years with Notational Velocity and quite happy with the sync.

Good for them. Simplenote is a solid service, I've found, although the apps and interface are hit-and-miss.

I hope they plan to open source Simperium server to allow self-hosting.

Congrats guys!!

Congrats Mike and Fred!

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