Grammarly, Superhuman, and the Slow March Toward Enterprise Software

I guess Grammarly wants to be Notion, or Notion wants to be Microsoft, and now Grammarly also wants to be Microsoft?

All roads lead back to enterprise software, don't they? Our secret indie bands, er, apps, which we discovered before they had radio play, performing in intimate concert halls, have to grow up eventually and serve the needs of Fortune 500 companies, creating a suite of bloated apps that promise to work better together but seldom ever do.

Look, I hope the Grammarly acquisition does the one thing that all acquisitions promise to do in the initial press release but seldom do: invest more resources in our beloved apps so they can finally build all the cool features users have wanted for years.

But, well, then there's the deep history of acquired apps that don't survive. Either they get killed off entirely, like Mailbox, or become enterprise software, like Slack.

That said, Notion has done well by Cron (despite a confusing rebrand that often has me launching Notion when I'm searching for Notion Calendar). Cron has seemingly thrived within Notion, adding features that I was actually clamoring for (hello iCloud support).

I can't run my life without Superhuman, and it has truly been the ace up my professional work sleeve for five years now. So I'm praying this acquisition is the exception to the rule.

Watch this space, as they say.