Bending Spoons

We acquire and improve iconic products.

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A sneak peek at one of our oldest traditions. 👀

Every six months, we get together in Milan to present recent challenges, achievements, and product improvements.

Watch the video for a snippet of State of the Spoon: December 2025 edition. 👇

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So we’re acquiring a business.

What now?

Integrating it into our platform. Devising a long-term strategy. Developing new features. Optimizing user experience and monetization.

@luke10ferrari, @fedesimio, and communications lead Rebecca spill the beans on all this and more. 👇

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Looking forward to it. 🚀

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Happy Monday. On today’s show:

– @eglyman (Ramp)
– @Reedjd (Night Media)
– @Srasgon (Bernstein)
– @luke10ferrari (Bending Spoons)
– @healeycypher (BoomPop)
– John Tenet (CHAOS)

See you on the stream.

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Here’s a challenge the Evernote team can’t solve alone…

Should we optimize for consistency or for logic?

When a user moves a note to a different notebook, it’s “updated” even though the content hasn’t changed. Not a huge issue, but it’s irritating. Because the newest, most relevant notes get buried below much older ones.

The solution seems obvious: change the logic.

But it’s not that simple. This is how Evernote has functioned for years, and it’s what users know. So the team has a hard call to make. Optimize for consistency or for logic?

How would you tackle the problem?

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This person gets it 😍

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STEM students and recent grads in Milan, this one’s for you! 📣

Applications are open for our next Follow the White Rabbit Aperitivo. Join us on September 12 for an evening of tech chats, cibo, and cin-cins.

Apply now: https://t.co/6XE0i2jNsI 🔗

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Exceptional teammates. Major challenges. Rapid growth.

That’s what to expect with a career at Bending Spoons.

Check out our open positions: https://t.co/l6yxv7MUJG. 🔗

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Over 5,000 acquisitions considered every year. 🤯
So what makes our team say, “That’s interesting”?

Check out the interview (in Italian) here: https://t.co/AxdX4ao9oL.

P.S. Thanks for having us, Pietro.

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15 shiny new features and a 50% boost in signups. 🚀

That’s what the first year post-acquisition looked like for StreamYard—alongside making the platform stronger than ever by squashing bugs and improving reliability.

Next on the agenda: further platform optimization and delivering some highly requested new features. 🤫

Grande, team! 💪

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Is >2 seconds too long to wait for a note to load in Evernote?

Our performance squad thought so. Especially since nearly a third of Android users were waiting that long.

To speed things up, the team reworked how the Editor loads: Instead of loading when a note is opened, it now preloads in the background when the app launches. This dropped slow loads from around 33% of Android users to just 3%. It sped up note creation for 15% of users, too.

It’s a small update that impacts only a portion of users, but it reflects how we work: always improving, never done.

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We’re making a big bet. And we don’t know if it will pay off. 😅

Issuu is a complex beast—more than 130 microservices in six different programming languages. Shipping an improvement means coordinating across multiple databases, backends, frontends, and web libraries. At the testing phase, pieces need to be run locally or shipped to the cloud. Not exactly efficient.

To address this, we’re aiming to refactor the architecture from 130 microservices down to six.

It’s a massive effort, requiring months of major investment. But if it’s a success, we’ll be able to deliver security patches, dismiss legacy tools, and ship features in less than half the time.

It’s far from certain, but we’re betting we can pull it off. Godspeed, team. 🚀

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No coffee duties, no busywork.

From day one, our interns take on meaningful projects. Like software engineers who create code that powers leading products. Product managers who own features from ideation to execution...

It’s all part of creating an environment with exceptional opportunities to grow and thrive. So if you’re talented, driven, and hungry for impact, an internship at Bending Spoons could be for you.

Check out our opportunities: https://t.co/HFjrszFscy.

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5,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. 😮

That’s how much storage the StreamYard team has reclaimed through one small change.

Previously, old user recordings were kept indefinitely. But the thing is, most users don’t need their old recordings forever.

So the team made a change. Now, free users’ videos are stored for a fixed period—saving a staggering five petabytes of storage, and protecting users’ privacy by cleaning up outdated media.

It’s a great reminder that adding value doesn’t always mean adding new features. Sometimes it means optimizing what’s there already. 💪

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The State of the Spoon.
One of our best-loved traditions.

Forty Spooners took to the stage to share their teams’ successes, failures, and learnings from the past six months. There were laughs, plot twists... and a Brazilian telenovela. Of course.

And after dark? We hit the dancefloor, '50s style.

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Since we acquired komoot, the team has been...
... going the extra mile. 🥾

Here’s a few of the features and improvements they’ve delivered so far:
📸 Trail previews featuring community photos, so users can see the conditions before they arrive
🚲 Improved turn-by-turn navigation from accurately identifying U-turns to squashing bugs
🚠 New point of interest categories on the map, including snack spots and cable cars

See the full list: https://t.co/lCRp9FvZ2k

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Intern life, Remini edition.

Since joining us as a data analyst six months ago, Joe hasn’t missed a beat. His responsibilities this week?

👉 User acquisition campaigns. Testing whether including an extra dataset would improve the efficacy of ad campaigns. Outcome: 20% reduction in the cost per new user.

👉 Business plan validation. Making sure the latest Remini business plan is rock-solid, by verifying the data against the records. Outcome: A perfect match.

👉 Web onboarding experiment. Estimating the lifetime value of subscribers from a specific cohort. Outcome: Promising—the campaign is profitable.

Next week, Joe’s hopping on a flight to Milan to join the team at our HQ. Busy times. 😅

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Here’s a UX challenge:

How do you keep shipping new features without cluttering the interface? And while we’re at it, how do you offer customization without overwhelming users with options?

Evernote tackled both (and avoided overcomplicating the tech) with custom navigation. Users can now choose which features appear in their sidebar, keeping the UI clean and intuitive—more freedom for the product team to explore, develop, and release new features into the wild. 🐘

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✅ Get dressed.
✅ Get breakfast.
✅ Get coding.

(And coaching. And crushing bugs. And conducting interviews…)

It’s a day in the life of software engineering lead Milana.

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Women in tech, join us on March 7 for another evening of chat, cibo, and cin-cins.

Are you a student or recent grad? Register your interest here: https://t.co/20iUAr1Ly9