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Notion API – public beta

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Re: Notion API – public beta

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Post by wpietri »

bnt wrote: post #17
owlbynight wrote: post #12

When I initially signed up for Notion, I did so thinking the API was already usable. It was used as a selling point for their premium service even though it wasn't implemented. This was a year and a half ago or so. I felt pretty burned by it and killed my subscription. Hopefully this turns out well for the people who've been waiting for it, but that experience left a terrible taste in my mouth.

Isn't that the whole point of Agile MVP development? Sell something that doesn't exist and hope someone buys it? Personally, I don't expect much from it, after working with Airtable's API and hating every second of it.

There's some validity to the criticism, but that's more the intersection of short-cycle methods and American "hustle" culture than anything to do with an MVP approach itself. People with more integrity can take an MVP-centered approach and just be honest with customers about where they are.

Indeed, I think that honesty works better; underpromising and overdelivering is a great way to build trust among your initial customer base. Trust that you need to carry people through the inevitable bumps and anticipations of an early-adopter experience.

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Post by freewilly1040 »

dhritzkiv wrote: post #43
heipei wrote: post #33

Glad they learned from their painful mistake and ditched the .so domain in favor of a .com.

Can you fill me in about why a .so domain was a mistake? Because DNS providers/ firewalls sometimes block foreign TLDs, or was there something else?

> Because DNS providers/ firewalls sometimes block foreign TLDs

yes, this

Re: Notion API – public beta

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Post by caslon »

andreilys wrote: post #36
caslon wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Obsidian isn't as bad as Notion, but it's also proprietary. Unfortunately, there is no good company in this space.

Doesn’t really matter since the underlying data (markdown files) is what obsidian uses (vs hosting the data on their cloud). So in the event that they don’t survive or enact policies I disagree with, nothing changes for me

Their markdown is not standard, so stuff might still change for you.

Re: Notion API – public beta

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Post by freewilly1040 »

owlbynight wrote: post #12

When I initially signed up for Notion, I did so thinking the API was already usable. It was used as a selling point for their premium service even though it wasn't implemented. This was a year and a half ago or so. I felt pretty burned by it and killed my subscription. Hopefully this turns out well for the people who've been waiting for it, but that experience left a terrible taste in my mouth.

I didn't quite have the impression you had, but I did sign up for a "early access beta", that mostly resulted in me receiving a bunch of spam from the company telling me how almost ready the api was.

Happy the thing is released finally, it is a big improvement on Google docs.

Re: Notion API – public beta

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Post by nicomeemes »

dheera wrote: post #4

I currently use a 1-person Slack workspace instead of Notion because I can write bots to help me with various things. I'll have to see if this API is complete enough to do what I want with Notion.

This sounds really interesting to me. Care to explain how you use it (the slack workspace/bots)?

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Post by detaro »

jfrunyon wrote: post #48

> Start building with the Notion API BETA Okay, but what does it do and why do I want it? Why do sooooo many businesses insist on homepages that tell me literally nothing about the product they provide?

really, the notion homepage tells you literally nothing about the product? https://www.notion.so/

Re: Notion API – public beta

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Post by tacosaretasty »

I’d be sold on their product if they had better security implementation. Company wiki’s are troves of sensitive information and I’m uncomfortable that I have yet to find any central logging on the product.

I wish these things were also taken into account

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