Oof. Bending spoons now owns Evernote, Meetup, Eventbrite, Vimeo, and a handful of others. 1.2B is pretty substantial. Are those products better now?
Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B | TechCrunch
techcrunch.comAug 4, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Eventbrite to be acquired by Bending Spoons for $500M | LinkedIn
The ticketing and events platform will become a privately-held company upon the closure of the deal.
A New Home for Meetup - Meetup Blog
Meetup will soon be welcomed into the Bending Spoons portfolio of digital technology products. In this post, the Bending Spoons CEO, Luca Ferrari, discusses the acquisition.
Bending Spoons buys automation platform Airtable for $1.28bn
Italy’s Bending Spoons has agreed to buy US automation company Airtable in its first acquisition deal since going public last month.
Brennan Kenneth Brown (@brennan@social.lol)
Because $18 million dollars isn't enough for some people, I have *more* people and organisations of note to list as paying Omarchy patrons (there are over hundreds in total): - Axel Fontaine is the creator of Flyway, the widely used database migration tool he sold to Redgate in 2019. He's also submitted code to the Omarchy repo, both a funder and a hands-on contributor. - Marc Köhlbrugge is the founder of WIP and BetaList, fixtures of the indie-hacker/bootstrapper scene that Omarchy's ricing bullshit aesthetic is clearly courting. - ServiceStack is an established .NET web-services framework vendor, one of the patrons backing the project as a company rather than an individual. - Bertrand Janin is a longtime open-source developer (ex-Ramp, ex-Truveris) running his own small shop, Atelier Janin. - Pagecord, the blogging platform created by Olly. - Vincent Ritter, founder of Tinylytics and Scribbles, known for complaining about being offended by pronouns, being disappointed by more inclusive Apple emoji, disparaging "foreigners" who drive for Uber and play "foul rap music," and praising Elon Musk the day after he performed two Nazi salutes on camera. Manton Reece, of micro.blog, publicly defends him. - 9538-7874 Quebec inc. is one of at least a couple of numbered, unnamed Canadian corporations on the list. Bizarre shell companies with no public identity attached to them at all. Unsure about these. https://omarchy.org/patrons/
Why we’re expanding the openRxiv Labs Curvenote Reader experiment
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Notesnook | Open source & zero knowledge private note taking app
Express yourself with freedom, no spying, no tracking — only private notes. Unlike Evernote and other note apps, your data is private — not open for everyone to see.
Stacktracer's Dev Shrine
Surfing the IndieWeb is fun! Like many people my age (old millenial here, to be specific), I miss the Internet of the 90's and early 2000's. Until a couple of years age I thought it was gone for good. Luckily, I was wrong. The small web is all about non-corporate homepages and websites made by individuals. I won't go into details on why this is cool. For now, let me just point you in the right direction so you can see for yourself.
Lab Notes #004: Semble Updates - Notifications, Provenance and Indie Integrations - Cosmik Labs
Spreading good attention karma with new Semble notifications and provenance, and some cool indie Semble integrations
Products like @margin.at and @semble.so have the potential to change scientific publishing as we know it today. These are early-stage products but they're clearly ahead of the curve when it comes to new ways to organize and share knowledge.
