Crunchbase shows only $150k investment in automate.io [1].
If this is true, it is a great success for the Automate founders.
[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/automate-io/company_...
Notion Acquires Automate.io
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Re: Notion Acquires Automate.io
#72Crunchbase shows only $150k investment in automate.io [1]. If this is true, it is a great success for the Automate founders. [1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/automate-io/company_...
How much were they acquired for that we know this was great success?
Re: Notion Acquires Automate.io
#73Crunchbase shows only $150k investment in automate.io [1]. If this is true, it is a great success for the Automate founders. [1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/automate-io/company_...
How much were they acquired for that we know this was great success?
They've built a profitable company with 40 employees with almost no outside investment.
Re: Notion Acquires Automate.io
#74As an Indian I'm super excited that Notion's first overseas engineering office would be located in Hyderabad, India as a consequence of this acquisition!
They already have offices in Dublin and Tokyo. Aren't these overseas offices from American point of view?
Re: Notion Acquires Automate.io
#75You could always tell when a company switch their priority from B2C to B2B. Notion felt different when it was first released but in the last few years new competitors were able to replicate what they've done and make it better and faster (e.g. Craft) while notion focused their energy on teams/enterprise features.
I only use notion as a private shared wiki. Do you know of any better apps out there for this?
Vimwiki integrated with task warrior for terminal goodness
Re: Notion Acquires Automate.io
#76Any ideas about possible deal size?
Haven’t been able to find it either.
Re: Notion Acquires Automate.io
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
without seeing numbers you don’t know whether it’s good or not for them, it’s possible that they get plenty of growth through these channels
I think the point about performance seems relevant in my experience. This is a problem Slite seems to be facing as well. We used both for a while and actually gave their teams a lot of feedback. They were very grateful and communicated well, but moved very slowly and performance decreased quite a bit over time. We ended up focusing most of our planning/note taking/scheduling efforts in Linear instead. Much, much diff…
You are absolutely right that building a performant rich-text-editor for large document is indeed a very difficult problem. Mixing real-time collaboration put further challenges on api design and server processing. It's a whole different level of engineering challenges compare to building a performant CRUD web app...
I am wondering how your team does note taking in Linear - are you guys create one issue for each document? It doesn't support collaborative editing, right?
Re: Notion Acquires Automate.io
#78Been using Notion for over 2 years now, and unfortunately I must say I am not going to be using them moving forward. You end up with a soup of documents each with their own structure, search is terrible, creating is easy sure - but finding the right content sucks. I'm not sure what the solution is, but after putting Notion through its paces I know this isn't it.
The search is the part that really infuriates me. I find it pretty useless at finding exactly where I've mentioned a term or phrase before, compared to Obsidian or even Craft
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#79I’ve happily shifted to FSNotes after tasting all flavors of alternatives- FSNotes has hit a sweet spot for me, Apple systems only maybe it’s only limit, if fully cross, I can slip back to Joplin, which is good but for some reason or other never hooked me strongly (am always looking for notational velocity replacement- thinking I’ve finally got it)
Re: Notion Acquires Automate.io
#80As an Indian I'm super excited that Notion's first overseas engineering office would be located in Hyderabad, India as a consequence of this acquisition!
They already have offices in Dublin and Tokyo. Aren't these overseas offices from American point of view?
The offices in Dublin and Tokyo are sales and customer success outposts. Hyderabad will be the first office outside the US with an engineering presence :)