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Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal

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Re: Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal

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Ive been happy with all the improvements they are making to Komoot do far.

I used it this we and I found it's really worst than one year ago. In detail: - It was blocking my phone, and one time I had to restart it - It's VERY hard now to find my planned trips But maybe this is because I do a very basic usage. Uninstalled, though.

I'm suprised, as nothing was changed around saved trips or collections. Same UX as always there.

I'm a heavy user; I use it to plan 3-week-long trips and another month-long trip every year. It has improved, and they do a ton of user interviews to improve it. So far I've been happy.

I'm not happy they fired the old team, but I put that on the sellers and I don't know what was going on there or the company's finances.

Re: Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal

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What is the best open source alternatives of Airtable?

I've heard good things about https://teable.ai/ for airtable-like flexibility. With more standardized CRM scenarios I'm going to try https://twenty.com/ with the next opportunity

Re: Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal

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I have a lot of personal stuff in Airtable. It's really nice software but the company has struggled. Omni, their AI agent was terrible, and yet the founders have doubled down on agents with Hyperagents (nee Superagents).

I'm sure Notion DBs ate their lunch, but Coda had the best document database integration I've seen, but they got bought by Superhuman.

This entire market space is going to be messy for a while.

Re: Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal

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>Bending Spoons said Airtable's current net cash position implies an equity value of about $2.25 billion. Bending Spoons must have amazing negotiaters to strike such a bargain. We should send them to Iran to negotiate the peace deal.

> We should send them to Iran to negotiate the peace deal.

I laughed so hard. But I mean seriously...

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