Notion Battle: Microsoft released Loop and the next is the open source Notion alternative, AppFlowy (techcrunch.com)
from kr0n@lemmy.ml to technology@lemmy.ml on 21 Nov 2023 00:18
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autotldr@lemmings.world on 21 Nov 2023 00:20 next collapse

This is the best summary I could come up with:


A new startup is targeting the lucrative workplace productivity space with an open source approach to project and knowledge management — and it has received backing from a who’s who of investors from across the technology spectrum.

AppFlowy, as the company is called, has raised $6.4 million in funding from a slew of renowned founders, including Matt Mullenweg (Automattic); Steve Chen (YouTube); Tom Preston-Werner (GitHub); Bob Young (Red Hat) and Amr Awadallah (Cloudera).

Helping the workforce be more efficient is big business, evidenced by the likes of Notion hitting a lofty $10 billion valuation off the back of remote work-driven demand for collaboration software.

However, AppFlowy’s promise is all about control and customizability, allowing companies to tailor their workspace with modular building blocks that can be fine-tuned for specific use cases.

“Most proprietary collaboration workplace tools share a major limitation — their customers find it too hard or too expensive to have 100% control of their data,” co-founder and CEO Annie Anqi Wang said in a blog post.

“We plan to adopt a freemium model for AppFlowy Cloud, which means that certain premium features will not be included in the free tier,” Wang said.


The original article contains 829 words, the summary contains 194 words. Saved 77%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca on 21 Nov 2023 00:41 next collapse

I’m pretty heavily in favour of the Microsoft 365 platform, but loop has not found a spot in my toolkit at this point. I’d rather just use OneNote.

I get that these tools are supposed to make collaboration easier, but it really doesn’t add much in my opinion.

9point6@lemmy.world on 21 Nov 2023 15:09 collapse

I’m pretty heavily in favour of the Microsoft 365 platform

That’s not a sentence I ever expected to read, I’m curious as to what makes it heavily favourable in your opinion?

I think most of the sentiment I’ve seen towards it before ranges from indifference to apoplectic rage

BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca on 21 Nov 2023 22:22 collapse

While there are some frustrating parts I’ve found that it gets the job done reasonably well and integrates well across the products. I’m a power user so I can often find workarounds for even the things that bother me. Teams communicates well, sharepoint stores the files for my group just fine, office does what it always does, then I get these other useful tools for forms, databases, video sharing, etc.

I think the biggest problem for most people is that they never received adequate training. I trained myself so I skipped that limitation.

wander1236@sh.itjust.works on 21 Nov 2023 07:03 next collapse

Your post title is hurting my brain

Discover5164@lemm.ee on 21 Nov 2023 22:37 next collapse

github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy

MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk on 22 Nov 2023 08:15 next collapse

Changing the original headline of an article into semi-gibberish? That’s a downvote.

KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml on 22 Nov 2023 23:46 next collapse

Open source (until we need to make money)

nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 23 Nov 2023 05:12 collapse

It will be as good as Teams …