Open source Notion alternative AppFlowy gets big-name backers and lands on the cloud | TechCrunch
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AppFlowy is taking on Notion with an open source approach virtual workspace platform, with backing from a who's who of investors.
  • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
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    11 months ago

    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
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      11 months ago

      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.caEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

        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.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    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.

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