I’ve not tried it yet but that’s a long suspicious list of VC money for something hoping to be built opensource private p2p and decentralized
I can chime in here as I was an early alpha tester. I like the idea of the app but it’s very “tag-centric” in that you have to tag content in order to create maps. This makes it hard to resurface content organically as in Obsidian or Logseq. I much prefer Obsidian; although it isn’t open source, my files are still portable.
I’ve been extremely interested in anytype for some time. It does however use a proprietary license, which can stymie growth and community involvement.
I’m more interested in Affine.pro and AppFlowy that serve the same use case. Both will offer encryption, both FOSS.
There’s also SiYuan (E2EE) which is a FOSS version of Obsidian but it doesn’t ha e the database table feature that AppFlowy and Affine are developing.
Anytype has been hyped for at least 4 years now and I keep waiting for something useable, I think they’re wasting FOSS community energy.
I like affine.pro and appflowy but both were not really usuable last I tried them. The self hosted options are barely functioning so at the end of the day it’s just local. For a nice looking self hosted wiki I got outline working after tinkering for some time. Affine has been promising!
Does someone know what is their business model? How are they planning to make money?
In their FAQ they explain making money initially by offering paid backups. What’s interesting is their future plans, their vision of a cooporitive ecosystem or whatever, they make money off namespaces/domains, publishing/work contribution, in addition to the backups. This is of course if it gets engagement like notion, it will demonstrate ways to make money from an open network.
If you’re betting on the tech culture moving to decentralized services this could be a way to have a foot in it.
