I can’t help but wonder what happened. On the surface, it seems like an amicable departure, but the fact that neither Andy Yen nor Proton have said anything publicly about it is really weird and suspicious. It’s also surprising that Mo didn’t stay until Standard Notes was actually integrated into Proton’s suite of products. It’s been over a year, and that has yet to happen.
I would disagree strongly. It’s pretty standard for employers to not comment on any departures. Neither weird nor suspicious.
Is that something that will happen? Afaik the Standard Notes people were building Proton Docs. Not aware of any work being done to integrate Standard Notes into the Proton suite.
It is my understanding that that was the plan. When Proton acquired SN, many people, especially Proton users, were holding off on subscribing to any E2EE note-taking app because they were confident that SN would be integrated into Proton Unlimited. Many people, who were considering subscribing to Notesnook, held off for the same reason, but also because they wanted to see what innovations Proton would bring to SN first, before they make a decision.
When you contact SN support via email, you get a reply from Proton Support, and yet it hasn’t been integrated, and it’s been over a year. I also suspect that the team behind SN are also not fully integrated into Proton because when I reach out to SN support, it’s the same person who replies to me from many years before Proton acquired SN. I’ve reached out to SN numerous times and it’s always the same person. If you reach out to Simple Login support, you’ll get a variety of people from the wider Proton Team, not just the original SL team that was pretty small.
Moreover, since Proton acquired Simple Login, Son Nguyen Kim, its French founder has published numerous blog posts about updates on Proton’s website, the last one being 3 days ago for the announcement of Proton Authenticator. We’ve seen nothing like that from the founder of SN.
They’re also “working on” something akin to Google Sheets with Proton Drive.
I would love to know the timelines of things like their wallet app vs. an SN clone and Proton Drive Sheets, because the latter is 100% something that makes it WAY easier to jump from Google to anywhere else and pick up users. Just surprised this isn’t a higher priority to figure out.
