2y ago

Notion Battle: Microsoft released Loop and the next is the open source Notion alternative, AppFlowy

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Open source Notion alternative AppFlowy gets big-name backers and lands on the cloud | TechCrunch

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2y ago

Notion Battle: Microsoft released Loop and the next is the open source Notion alternative, AppFlowy

techcrunch.com /2023/11/20/appflowy-open-source-notion-alternative/

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- Florp Battle: Microsoft released Gishly and the next is the open source Florp alternative, Norbling.
  This is how I read the headline.
  
  First, they take the dinglebop, and they smooth it out with a bunch of schleem
  
  Floorp IS open source!
Appflowy just rolls off the tonguey.
Can you use it offline or does it fall apart like notion does? I switched to Obsidian after that bit me a while back.
- You didn’t know how to use notion by refraining to hand your personal private data to big corps.
I went down the rabbit hole of an open source replacement for notion earlier today randomly.
- Any suggestions?
  
  Obsidian is very solid and has a huge addon eco system to change it most ways you might thino of.
  
  I really like Anytype.
  
  I can recommend Notesnook. Relatively cheap premium plan, everything is open source, with clients available on F-Droid and Flatpak and end-to-end encryption.
  For server code they already published the source. Option to use self-hosted servers is on the roadmap: https://notesnook.com/roadmap/
https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy
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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