Comment by tomoyoirl
7 months ago
> What do they care how many employees Kagi has or how much they spend on t-shirts.
Spending a third of your round on t-shirt manufacturing equipment is possibly not the best sign of the focused leadership that will bring your company success in a difficult market.
True, but what do I as a customer care? It's not like I'm building some business on their APIs or anything.
If they go down, I will switch to another search engine… no need to do so preemptively from my PoV.
Because "going down" doesn't necessarily mean _shutting_ down-- it could be a sale as well. Considering the stated attitude towards privacy, that should worry you if privacy is your concern.
All search engines are problematic in terms of privacy.
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It you want to know when Evernote went downhill, it’s precisely the moment they started selling backpacks.
Every tech company I've ever seen has had free t-shirts to give out at some point. While I don't think it was a smart use of limited funds, it's certainly not a major pivot to physical products like Evernote.