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> Even pretty established players like Asana don't offer on prem.

Sounds like an opportunity ;)

Starting or rearchitecting a project gives you the rare chance to make decisions that your competitors never even had available to them. You can leverage new tech to move faster, and you can learn from their mistakes to avoid their most costly traps.

“Bring your own S3 bucket” actually sounds pretty awesome and I wish more companies would do this. Everybody wants to be a middleman controlling the transaction, but they’re missing a whole class of customers by not offering self-directed storage options.

This is a great example of a decision Notion could make now, that Asana would have a hard time adapting to. As long as they’re rearchitecting, they should keep an eye out for opportunities like that.

As for how much I’d pay – if I’m the only party with access to my raw data, and I can run the software locally even if Notion goes out of business – for a team of 5-10, I would pay $50-75 per user per month.



You might want to take a look at AthensResearch (free, self-hosted RoamResearch clone).


Oh I have. Problem is Notion is most popular with the least technical people on our team. Migrating would be a hard sell.


This might be an interesting alternative: https://github.com/QingWei-Li/notea.

Open source Notion clone that you can host locally.


Looks awesome, but it relies on an S3 (or compatible) backend, which I personally find too much of a hassle.


Min.io[0] is pretty easy to set up, if you haven't heard of it, and is S3-compatible.

0: https://min.io/




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