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The person I was responding to specifically mentioned "collaborative annotation" and startups. Non-collaborative annotation has different tradeoffs. It may be u
by jerf 6y ago
The person I was responding to specifically mentioned "collaborative annotation" and startups. Non-collaborative annotation has different tradeoffs. It may be useful to you, but I can't imagine there's any money there for a startup. It avoids the anti-network effects that kill annotations, and it avoids publisher objections too, but it also doesn't have a very compelling value proposition for very many people. It's like trying to make money off of people who like mind maps, literate programming, or who use personal wikis.... it's non-zero amounts of people, often very passionate people, but it's not much of a market.
- memexy 6y agoWhy is there no money in a personal annotation system? I'd think any large organization would be willing to pay a lot of money to use a tool that would make its members more productive and effective. In fact, Coda and Notion.so are very successful products and they're basically personal/private annotation systems (modulo storing everything in the cloud). I can imagine extending Coda and Notion.so with programmatic capabilities and adding offline storage and turning them into pretty successful personal annotation systems with premium features for supporting organizational work and collaboration. There is plenty of money in this market when viewed from the right angle.
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