Jürgen ŠuvalovDec 5
Bastian Allgeier

Notion is such a good example of a tool with a team that did not know when to stop and reflect, but just kept adding.

We had a brilliant drawing teacher and sculptor in university. I was very pleased with one of my drawings and kept going, adding more and more details. He suddenly stood behind me and shouted: "Stop! You are riding a dead horse here!" I had killed what was already good by not stopping. That lesson really stuck with me.

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Show threadFrank QuednauDec 4
@bastianallgeier this is a huge problem in a sense for any subscription-based software. How do you justify holding a team together? How do you justify getting money every month by paying customers? I see a lot of software moving sideways these days.
Show threadBastian AllgeierDec 4
@flq That's exactly the problem.
Show threadWenzel MassagDec 4
@bastianallgeier @flq that plus sales is a feedback channel. If people stop buying, you notice. If people pay a subscription and can’t just stop buying, you don’t notice when your business goes sideways until it’s way too late.
Show threadSebastianDec 4
@bastianallgeier In today's world, few people know how to restraint. Unfortunately.
Show threadMokoranaDec 4
@bastianallgeier that's probably why Kirby is as good as it is. You are gatekeeping 😉
Show threadMarc ThieleDec 4
@bastianallgeier well said. I constantly hover my finger over unsubscribe as I only use it as note taking tool. Is there any other good tool that is good in only that? Note taking, I mean …
Show threadmaxhaessleinDec 4
@[email protected] I really love Obsidian: https://obsidian.md/ - the best: it’s just markdown files, so easy to port your notes to another system. They also have a Notion importer.
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Show threadkevin ⁂ (he/him)Dec 4
@bastianallgeier is that why Kirby is so damn good? Because you know when to stop? :D
Show threadAndré SimmertDec 4
@bastianallgeier I always wonder how great artists and composers knew when their piece was done. Way easier in software to decide what goes into V1.0. But still not trivial.