Request for startup: Notion / Coda built especially for programmers Another way to put it: cloud-based emacs A third way to put it: an app where PowerPoint, Excel, all the MS Office / Google Drive apps were a single app (the concept of app was blurred) (...)
— https://twitter.com/stevekrouse/status/1213333354906554368
the notion backstory is that it tried to be a "programming for everyone" product, that failed (for tech + market reasons), and the successful product is the result of a big scary pivot toward "what the world wanted" https://figma.com/blog/design-on-a-deadline-how-notion-pulled-itself-back-from-the-brink-of-failure/
In the first go-round — Notion beta — Ivan and Simon made a programming application that was easy to use even if someone didn't know how to code. It turned out, people weren't interested in that.
I think it is a platitude that learning to code gives you agency over computers and lets you solve problems in your life, and it's not actually that true
— Omar Rizwan - https://twitter.com/rsnous/status/1269736402578632704