Peer into the future of Simplenote w/ Dan Roundhill

Matt Report

12-12-2017 • 34 min

In this episode, Matt Mederios is winding down the December holiday season with this interview with Dan Roundhill. Dan is a mobile engineer for Automattic and is the project lead on Simplenote a note-taking product which Matt uses and highly recommends. Automattic acquired Simperium and Simplenote in 2013. Dan shares the ins and outs of Simplenote and discusses upcoming features and what may be added in future releases.

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What you will learn from this Episode:

  • Simplenote started out as a very basic notes app that provided a user a simple and easy way to take notes on a tablet or phone. (3:07)
  • Simplenote developed into an app that allowed you to sync across your devices so that you could take notes on any device and work anywhere. The product is stable across platforms. (3:34)
  • Automattic has made several acquisitions and has many products that are not heavily advertised in the WordPress ecosystem. (ex: Simplenote, Cloudup, Lean Domain Search, Gravatar, and Videopress). (4:58)
  • After the acquisition for Simplenote was made by Automattic, the focus has been on the app to get more traction with a wider audience. (6:27)
  • Dan Roundhill is leading the Simplenote team internally for Automattic. (6:51)
  • There is a new Simplenote app that was released for Windows and Linux that is built on React using Electron. (7:07)
  • You can publish a note using Simplenote that shows up with a tiny url and is an easy way to share your note on the web. (9:09)
  • There is a great support team of Happiness Engineers that gathers feedback from the app store and emails and prioritizes the requests. (11:38)

Features and User Requests:

  • Simplenote is used internally by Automat...

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