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by sirusdas 2227 days ago
Its amazing that i had just posted a link of Notion in the twitter and Linkedin for a tool to use as daily driver and just in few hours it shows up here. To be honest, its a good tool to learn from and master but it needs to be open sourced to grow much better. Notion is just an idea coming live like once Linkedin or GitHub was. We need a platform to integrate all other tools in a single place and it will take a lot of efforts. There are 2 ways to achieve it. 1. Private like Notion 2. Public like ? I personally feel all big companies must release api's( if they don't already) and work in harmony to create an ultimate plug and use workspace system. Due to rapid growing of Tech stacks and tools every day. This is once of the biggest product i can see in futures to come. I read comments about security and how people wanted it real bad. To implement security in product like Notion, it might need a rework from scratch as they this was probably not a concern when they started it and as it grows it will be difficult to even integrate it again this is were an open source community comes into play and can be very helpful.

From views on Notion perspective is that this is the right time to go open source and let the world patch in. It's not a work that can be done in private as it's a huge pile of possibilities and requires an immense group of talented people to make it a success.

Why don't i do it then? Well i can definitely start a repo but my lack of experience, skills will easily out-number me by people who are better. I can be a good thinker and a decision maker and a leader but this thing needs support from amazing people and a repo is generally successful because of immence tech skills in initial phase of development in open source.