(2022-11-27) Chamberlain Athens Research Is Gone Whats Next

Ben Chamberlain: Athens Research is gone, what’s next? The most shameless Roam-clone has thrown in the towel

What’s next for the Personal Knowledge (PKM) Space? While Athens was never a significant part of it, this is an opportunity to reflect on where we’re at and what’s coming.

The big recent trend is the sudden addition of Artificial Intelligence all over. (LLM)

The Personal Knowledge Space has long sought the possibilities of AI.

It remains to be seen, however, if this influx of AI is good for the startups

A good moat is both valuable and hard to replicate

My larger concern with targeting the work use-case is the tech giants seem positioned to win.

Startups can better find the small niches of weirdos that include myself and figure out ways to empower them. The real benefit is in making a small group of users more powerful, not in making things easy for everyone.