Brings me back to winter 2019 - when @RoamResearch had less than 5k in the bank and no leads on investors.

@NotionHQ was famously turning $$$ away, so gave @ivanhzhao a demo, offered to share our research if he would invest or help us raise.

"We have enough ideas" he said... https://twitter.com/NotionHQ/status/1306677709263630336">https://twitter.com/NotionHQ/...

To be fair, I see why he had no interest in helping us through valley o https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="☠️" title="Totenkopf" aria-label="Emoji: Totenkopf"> - seems he assumed that if we found traction he could just clone our popular features.

And I admit, when I heard rumor that backlinks were coming, I was pretty nervous

Until I saw the implementation.

@NotionHQ backlinks give you seriously NONE of the benefits that backlinks give you in Roam.

They& #39;re links to pages, not blocks, no inheritance or intersections, clearly stapled on to try to catch the wave.

20 months of watching Roam& #39;s rise and this is all you& #39;ve got to show?