David Apple

Top 10 most used AI products in the world. Notion is one of only 3 that didn’t start as an AI company. Top 10 fastest growing software vendors. Notion is one of only 2 that didn’t start as an AI company. The last three years have been a full company reinvention. New raw materials, new product surface areas, new way of thinking about what we are. The battle to reinvent @NotionHQ has been the challenge and privilege of a lifetime. I wish I didn’t care about scoreboards like this. Maybe it comes from growing up playing sports where rankings and titles were the final judge. Or maybe it’s just human nature. Either way the recognition matters. Not because we’ve “won” anything or see it as a zero-sum game. But it’s a signal we might be on the right path.

Things that were impossible a few years ago are now possible thanks to AI 👇

The holy row of AI

@ivanhzhao I’d love early access and happy to provide feedback @ivanhzhao @akothari 🙏

LMK if you want early access (and can provide ample feedback in exchange)

This is truly the most beautiful video I’ve seen lately So tender and heart-warming, yet it makes you stop and reflect, with a subtle touch of sadness We may have gained so much, but perhaps we’ve lost even more✨

Something strange is happening in the information war. Young Americans defending regimes like the Islamic Republic of Iran that jail protesters, strip women of rights and execute people for being gay. Self-described patriots on the right suddenly echoing narratives that benefit a country like Russia — which is openly hostile to the United States. How does that happen? Not through tanks or missiles. Post by post, people get pulled into camps that don’t actually serve their own country or their own values. They become pieces on a chessboard in a GRAY WAR — a conflict fought with information instead of bullets. And most people don’t even realize they’re part of it. The battlefield isn’t overseas anymore — it’s in your feed.

@BasedDaedalus Nothing wrong with using @typeform 😂

just met a cute girl at the wedding i’m at like unreal. face card so crazy my frontal lobe clocked out. i’m talking generational. if symmetry was a startup she just closed series b. we’re vibing. she’s laughing. eye contact locked. i’m farming aura like it’s a full-time job. then coding comes up. she goes “yeah i code” my soul did a hard restart i’m like oh word “what do you build?” she says “mostly vibe-coding rn” and that’s where a normal man would say “that’s fire” and get her number but unfortunately i was built in a lab i go: “ok define vibe-coding” “claude code or codex” “cursor agent mode or raw dogging prompts” “you got git or just vibes” “tests?” “types?” “deploy?” “rollback?” “you read diffs or click accept like a casino addict” she starts laughing like i’m joking i was entering forensic mode. she says “i just use chatgpt and claude and keep asking until it kinda works” i say “works where” she says “like… on my laptop” i say “so localhost cosplay” bro. and i swear to God the violinist in the corner sounded like a system alarm the vibe died instantly DIED flatline. kernel panic. social segfault. full emotional 500 in prod. i try one last save. i go “ok but do you at least push to github” she says “sometimes, i mostly keep stuff on desktop folders” DESKTOP FOLDERS i started dissociating. i could see my ancestors. i could hear linus torvalds screaming in the distance. her friend walks over like “omg are y’all talking tech” and i accidentally say “she said she’s a developer but her stack is claude code, codex, and divine intervention” she goes “wait no i made a website” i said “a figma screenshot with a typeform link is not a website, it is a cry for help” SILENCE. like biblical silence. they walked away. she did not look back. my friend comes over like “bro she was INTO you what happened” i said “she called herself a coder and then described generating a landing page and praying over it” he said “so?” SO??? i’m supposed to build a future with someone whose incident response plan is ‘refresh and re-prompt’??? she had a heavenly face card but an apocalyptic workflow zero tests zero repos zero shame infinite vibes could’ve had her number but she now knows i respect source control and honestly that’s worth more

An NVIDIA powered farming machine uses Al vision and precision lasers to eliminate weeds in milliseconds without herbicides and without harming crops, a potential shift toward chemical free agriculture

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A small note of hope for those who started building software before 2026. Yes, we are living through a revolution. One of a magnitude that some compare to the printing press and the steam engine combined. The very primitives we built our careers on — code, software, SaaS — are being deeply challenged. We hear about the “death of software.” We’re told everything will be replaced by agents. Some companies are downsizing as if the ending had already been written. And if you’ve been building for years, you might sometimes wake up with a strange feeling — like a CD-ROM salesman in a streaming world. As if you belonged to the old era. As if a new party had started somewhere else… and you weren’t on the guest list. I believe the opposite. This revolution is not happening around us. It’s happening through us. It builds on everything we’ve created — our brands, our systems of record, our distribution channels, the trust of our customers, and our deep understanding of their real problems. That’s not a disadvantage in the agent era. It’s structural leverage. The party you think you weren’t invited to? You have choices. You can stand outside and watch. You can push the door open and walk in. Or you can decide to be part of the organization — set the lights, choose the music, shape the atmosphere. The party has started. Turn up the music. Increase the volume. We can’t hear you.

@akothari @NotionHQ That’s a great use case!

This is by far my favorite @NotionHQ custom agent internally. It takes our centralized # all-product-feedback channel, and then routes the feedback to the right team, by creating its own rulebook.

At an event this afternoon, a group of individuals that were chanting "tax the rich" began to shout "tax the Jews." This was an event I put on with Supervisor Mahmood, labor leaders, and dozens of workers to announce a plan that creates more jobs for those workers and housing for San Franciscans. Suggesting that Jews are wealthy is a tired trope, and targeting our community at an event focused on creating economic opportunity for San Franciscans is decidedly antisemitic. I will never accept hate directed at the Jewish community or any community in our city. Those are not San Francisco values—we’re better than that.

@mlmanapat Congrats @mlmanapat!

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Excited to officially launch @Rowspace_AI — specialized intelligence for investors to make faster, sharper decisions by compounding their edge with AI. For the first time, they can turn their stores of messy, fragmented data into judgment and workflows that scale 🧵

Elon nailed it: Instagram is designed to make everyone look happier and hotter than they really are. You scroll and think: "Everyone's living the dream except me." Meanwhile, half those "perfect" people are secretly depressed, miserable, or just faking it for likes. Social media's biggest trick is convincing you your real life sucks compared to everyone else's highlight reel. Yeah... I'm off to delete Instagram. Who's with me? Source: @karatademada @elonmusk

Many college professors are discovering that students learn less when they have laptops open. Many of us are banning their use in class. Putting computers and tablets on students desks in K-12 may turn out to be among the costliest mistakes in the history of education

@toddsaunders I love this story!

I had coffee with a founder who sends every churned customer a $50 Amex gift card and a handwritten note. The note says: "Thanks for giving us a shot. Would you be willing to spend 15 minutes telling us what we got wrong?" 68% of churned customers take the call (they get the gift card whether they take the call or not) More than 2/3 of the customers who left his product voluntarily get on the phone to explain why... pretty crazy when you think about it. He records every call (with permission) and tags the reasons into a database. After two years, the he used that data to completely change the business and reduce his churn by 20%. The top reason for churn wasn't what he expected either. It was "we couldn't get our team to use it." An adoption problem, not a product problem. So he rebuilt onboarding from scratch. Added a mandatory training session. Built an adoption dashboard that flags accounts where usage drops below a threshold within the first 60 days. Churn dropped by 40%! The $50 gift card costs him ~$6,600/year but the are worth exponentially more to him long term. Most companies survey churned customers with an automated email that gets a 4% response rate and congratulate themselves like they did a good job. This founder treats every lost customer like a consulting engagement. The difference in data quality is unbelievable.

Former Apple CDO Jony Ive says every great invention starts with one decision — dismissing expert opinion entirely.

agents need full context to do their best work. context is the artifacts humans create and the data our systems generate. humans need to inspect, evaluate, edit, and approve what agents produce. it has to show up in a format we can understand. in a world where humans and agents collaborate, at least for the foreseeable future, both sides need to be legible to each other. this is the infrastructure @NotionHQ provides. we didn’t set out to build this exact thing, but we’re in a uniquely fortuitous position to connect both sides well.

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Today, Daytona is announcing a $24M Series A, led by @FirstMarkCap, to give every agent a computer. This round reflects what the market is increasingly concluding: the cloud was not built for agents. Full announcement 👇