Miro vs Notion

Miro MCP Server Surpasses 16 Million Calls

Miro, the collaboration platform, announced that its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server has surpassed 16 million calls since its launch in February 2026, with usage more than doubling since May. In September alone, calls are on track to reach 6 million. The integration allows AI tools like Claude Desktop, Claude Code, and ChatGPT to interact with Miro canvases, enabling teams to visualize and edit AI outputs collaboratively. Notably, adoption has expanded beyond developers, with product, design, marketing, operations, and project management roles now outnumbering engineers. Miro positions itself as the collaboration layer for AI agents, facilitating seamless input and output between AI and the canvas.

• Miro's MCP server has generated over 16 million calls since its launch in February 2026.
• Usage more than doubled since May, with September on track to reach 6 million calls.
• Claude Desktop and Claude Code account for 65% of usage in August; ChatGPT usage grew 71% from August to September.

Digital decay: 25% of decade's web pages vanish

A recent analysis reveals that a quarter of web pages from the last decade have disappeared, with many vanishing from sites that are still active. This 'digital decay' is highlighted by the shutdown of design tool InVision in December 2024, which deleted all user-created prototypes and boards. The closure underscored a trend of SaaS tools shutting down and leaving users without a way to export their work in bulk, leading to the loss of portfolios and case studies. Miro, the whiteboard company, acquired InVision's Freehand product but not the associated user data. This has raised concerns about the lack of archiving mechanisms for digital content and the preservation of professional work. The article emphasizes that as more tools shut down, the web's content continues to erode, calling for better awareness and possibly new standards or services to archive and preserve online work.

• A quarter of the past decade's web pages have vanished.
• InVision shut down on New Year's Eve 2024, deleting user prototypes.
• Miro acquired InVision's whiteboard product, Freehand, but not user data.

Founders Dispatch: Bending Spoons' Bargain Acquisitions and Scale-Up Europe Fund

In the second episode of the podcast 'Founders Dispatch', Stefan Köppl of Samira Advisors and Jakob Steinschaden discuss Italy's Bending Spoons, a tech giant with a $24 billion valuation, and its aggressive acquisition strategy in Europe. The company has bought Miro for $1.8 billion (90% below peak) and Airtable for $1.3 billion (80% discount), following a playbook of mass layoffs and cash flow optimization. The episode also covers the Scale-Up Europe Fund, a €5 billion EU fund managed by EQT, which has rapidly made five investments, including in IceEye, Lovable, and a €3 billion round in Mistral AI. Mistral's challenges with profitability and a 'neo-cloud' strategy are highlighted. The discussion touches on Europe's sovereignty dilemma, noting Samsung's investment in Mistral and the broader question of technological independence.

• Bending Spoons has a $24 billion market valuation.
• Miro was acquired for $1.8 billion, 90% below its peak valuation.
• Airtable was acquired for $1.3 billion, an 80% discount from peak.

Shopify Drops React Native for Native Apps Citing AI Agents

Shopify has announced it is moving away from React Native (RN) for its mobile apps, returning to fully native development using Swift and Kotlin. The decision, detailed by Head of Engineering Farhan Thawar and Head of Mobile Mustafa Ali, is driven by the dramatically improved capabilities of AI coding agents, which reduce the cost of building and maintaining two separate native codebases. Shopify found that the advantages of sharing code via RN are now outweighed by the benefits of full platform access and performance. The company has already rewritten its Shop app natively in just 12 weeks, with the main Shopify app underway. They are also building a shared test suite to validate feature parity between iOS and Android. This marks a strategic reversal from its 2020 all-in commitment to React Native, which was originally adopted to speed Android development. The shift is seen as a bellwether for the mobile development industry, potentially influencing other companies to reconsider cross-platform frameworks.

• Shopify announced it is moving all mobile apps from React Native to fully native development with Swift and Kotlin.
• The Shop app was rewritten natively in 12 weeks, with the main Shopify app currently underway.
• AI coding agents are cited as the key reason, reducing the cost of maintaining two native codebases.

Meet (again) Max Schoening, Notion's new CTO

The org chart of the future will be multidisciplinary, and we're lucky to have Max lead our technical organization into this future.

Notion introduces new AI features and blog posts on CRDTs and agent skills

Notion's website has been updated with new AI product pages (Notion AI, Agents, AI Meeting Notes, Enterprise Search) and new blog posts including 'How Notion handles concurrent editing with CRDTs' and 'A skills library for every agent'.