Notion

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17 statements across 15 episodes · 9 bullish · 4 bearish · 11 people on the record · first statement Jan 13, 2023 by Sahil Lavingia · said 225 times in 59 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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2024 64 mentions in 17 episodes 4 per episode
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Everything said about Notion, oldest first

Jan 13, 2023 neutral
Disclosure
Lavingia: Works zero hours a week at a laptop for Gumroad
“How many hours a week at Gummer do I work in front of a laptop? Zero, basically. I don't, like, I don't type. I generally just respond to messages on, on Slack and Notion, and this is what most CEOs do.”
Sahil Lavingia Jan 13, 2023 ▶ 41:37 Sahil Lavingia Gets Radically Honest
Nov 30, 2023 positive
Insight
Process Street prevents stale SOPs by forcing updates when operations deviate
“The way I think about Process Street, we have living documentation, and what I mean by living documentation is at the point that our operations veer from the way that we have a documented process, there's like a forcing function in Process Street that makes yo…”
Dru Riley Nov 30, 2023 ▶ 31:30 How To Make MILLIONS As A Faceless YouTuber | Dru Riley
Apr 18, 2024 neutral
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Isenberg: Late Checkout spends $2,000 to $3,000 monthly on Notion
“We pay thousands of dollars a month for notion, like two, three, I don't know, thousand a month.”
Greg Isenberg Apr 18, 2024 ▶ 15:49 pov: you have $10k to build a $1M startup
May 8, 2024 negative
Opinion
Yanowitz: Notion pages often fail as startup company wikis
“I think a lot of people now with startups do it on notion, but that doesn't really solve it because notions pages, even though I want to love them, they end up oftentimes sucking and there's like, it's really hard to find things.”
Jason Yanowitz May 8, 2024 ▶ 4:09 This $20M/year Founder shares his 3 top business ideas with me
Jul 24, 2024 neutral
Insight
Grant: Software moats are dead and brand is the only remaining defense
“Moats are dead and brand is the only moat. It's like, we used to all talk about network effects and like, you know, build something like Twitter. But if you think about all the software tools you use right now, there's not really a network effect. There's not …”
Dani Grant Jul 24, 2024 ▶ 23:09 4 $1M+ startup ideas you can launch tomorrow
Sep 1, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Brown: AI tools can build a full Notion clone in seven hours
“It takes six or seven hours if you like really want to go ham to create something that looks a lot like Notion, but with a full database storage and everything fully with AI without writing a single line of code.”
Riley Brown Sep 1, 2024 ▶ 1:26 I can't believe we coded an app with AI in 67 mins (V0, Cursor AI, Replit, Claude AI)
Sep 16, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Courtney: AJ&Smart Ditched Slack, Asana, and Notion for Basecamp
“We actually just moved from using Slack, Asana, and Notion back to using Basecamp after a four year break, and it is honestly refreshing.”
Jonathan Courtney Sep 16, 2024 ▶ 2:21 How to build a million dollar sales funnel using Facebook Ads
Sep 18, 2024 neutral
Insight
Creative teams lack enterprise software, relying on complex Notion and Slack combos
“We have CRM, we have ERP, but creative teams, like there's so many briefs and so much content being created now by these teams. And there's really no good way to track it. Everyone's using like these ultra complex, like notion, slack combos, and there's not li…”
Oren (Oren Meets World) Sep 18, 2024 ▶ 22:43 Learn how to win on the internet in 28 min [tiktok shop, trends, building cult brands]
Dec 25, 2024 negative
Disclosure
Isenberg shifted workflow from Notion to Apple Notes and pen and paper
“I'm spending more time on do not disturb mode. I really think that it's like the only way to get work done. I'm spending more time with pen and paper. I'm starting to write things down more. I'm spending more, I'm spending less time in like more hardcore produ…”
Greg Isenberg Dec 25, 2024 ▶ 6:58 My 2024 Year in Review (net worth update etc)
Mar 3, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Isenberg: Notion AI's true growth came from automating specific, recurring document types
“Notion AI started as a simple tool to help users write better content. But their real growth came when they focused on automating specific, specific document types that users were manually creating over and over.”
Greg Isenberg Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 10:00 How I find $130K/month AI SaaS Opportunities hiding in plain sight
Jun 23, 2025 bullish
Insight
Brown: Curating example databases for AI context is a major startup opportunity
“And so, in terms of, like, a, in terms of business ideas, some of the best business ideas might literally come from collecting good examples. I mean, look at this example, right? Like, AI never gave me good hooks until I created this little hooks database, so …”
Riley Brown Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 15:14 I built next gen AI Agents with MCP + Claude (STEAL my workflow)
Jun 23, 2025 negative
Insight
Riley Brown: Highly Flexible Note Apps Undermine Team Collaboration
“I'm not a huge fan of like note taking apps where you have a lot of creative freedom because anytime you try and collaborate things become unclear. Notion, there's just too many options and bells and whistles in my opinion”
Riley Brown Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 32:53 I built next gen AI Agents with MCP + Claude (STEAL my workflow)
Jun 23, 2025 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Riley Brown: Every Action in Notion Is Programmable Through MCP
“Google Docs makes it impossible, but Notion, literally every single action you could take in Notion is now programmable through this MCP. So an AI agent can just do those things directly if it has access to the Notion MCP server with all of those different too…”
Riley Brown Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 33:23 I built next gen AI Agents with MCP + Claude (STEAL my workflow)
Jul 15, 2025 positive
Opinion
Isenberg: A Lightweight, Less-Bloated Notion Alternative Would Succeed
“Like, I think that, like, a lightweight version of Notion with, you know, a lot less bloat would actually do really well.”
Greg Isenberg Jul 15, 2025 ▶ 3:21 Does Grok 4 Deserve a Spot In Your AI Stack? (Here's The Truth)
Mar 17, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Gaskill uses Claude Code as a unified interface to replace SaaS apps
“Like, I've connected up Gmail Google Drive, Calendar, Granola for my meeting notes, Stripe for payments, Notion for project management, and I don't even enter these tools anymore. I just sit and call code as one central place,”
Remy Gaskill Mar 17, 2026 ▶ 35:33 Building AI Agents that actually work (Full Course)
May 6, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
To: Local-first architecture is the key moat against Notion and Figma
“First of all, for me, when I make apps, I look at what is the mode? What is something that I can do with my app that Notion cannot do or Figma cannot do? For me, that mode right now is the fact that everything is local.”
Meng To May 6, 2026 ▶ 17:10 My AI Design Workflow That Doesn't Ship Slop
Aug 21, 2026 negative
Insight
Howell: Over-Engineering Agent File Sync Workflows Distracts from Actual Output
“Grokbot works well on its computer and it can read stuff on yours, but I find myself falling into this trap of, okay, you know, generate a report and then put it on my desktop and then put it in notion. And I don't know if other people are like this, but you e…”
Billy Howell Aug 21, 2026 ▶ 32:43 Making $$$ with Grok Bot
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