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Varun Rau @varunrau

building @notionhq đź›  đź’­ angel investor

Joined October 2009
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notion's new html blocks fable have made this even better! here's an interactive itinerary for our upcoming trip to montreal. the svgs it generated are sooo good
Varun Rau @varunrau
Jun 3
i trained my @NotionHQ agent to talk to me in pictures. planning a vacation has never felt so much fun!
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excited to share something i've been working on: external agents! external agents radically changed how we work at @NotionHQ. since we've been working on them internally, we have shipped 1000 PRs with external agents. here's a thread with what i've learned while building them🧵
Notion
 @NotionHQ
Jun 24
Introducing External Agents in Notion: Claude Cursor. Your team already collaborates in Notion. Now your favorite agents do too. Assign them tasks from a board shared with your whole team. @-mention them like teammates. Watch them run.
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5) because these agents have access to a computer, they can be extremely resourceful. there was a day when we shipped a bug to our claude agent removing its ability to upload files, but claude ended up finding an undocumented workaround that was totally valid.
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we've learned the most from our alpha customers who have been pushing these agents in ways that we didn't even know was possible. let us know what you think! linkedin.com/posts/yamed_ive…

I've had access to Notion External Agents for just over a month. And I was arguably its biggest...

I've had access to Notion External Agents for just over a month. And I was arguably its biggest user lol. After living in it for real startup work, here's what actually stuck 👇 1/ Automatic GitHub...

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flights are booked! my favorite visualization that notion ai made was this handy graph showing me when i should be spending miles vs dollars
Varun Rau @varunrau
Jun 3
i trained my @NotionHQ agent to talk to me in pictures. planning a vacation has never felt so much fun!
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Amir Efrati
 @amir
Jun 2
Vibe shift on codex has been palpable
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i trained my @NotionHQ agent to talk to me in pictures. planning a vacation has never felt so much fun!
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so many options!
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had a great time talking about the new notion developer platform at @APIdaysGlobal today! can’t wait to see what you all build 🧑‍💻
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if you want to try for yourself head over to notion.dev!

Build with Notion’s Developer Platform

Sync any data source. Build any agent tool. Orchestrate any agent. No infra required. One shared canvas for your team and agents to work together.

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this is probably my favorite Notion launch in the 6 years i’ve been working here. the workers team crushed it!!
Notion Developers
 @NotionDevs
May 13
Introducing: the Notion Developer Platform New building blocks that help you (and your coding agents) sync any data source, build any tool, and orchestrate any agent. Follow along 👇 x.com/i/broadcasts/1AJEmOArr…
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opus and me (we were both wrong)
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something i’ve been working on! combines the zen of @NotionHQ with the intelligence of @claudeai waitlist here if you want to try for yourself: notion.pages.dev.notion.co/d…
Claude
 @claudeai
Apr 8
@NotionHQ lets teams delegate work to Claude directly inside their workspace. Dozens of tasks run in parallel, and whole teams collaborate on the outputs. Available now in private alpha: youtube.com/watch?v=45hPRdfD…
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i think this is one of the most thoughtful sandbox apis i’ve worked with. more powerful than most but mostly one-shottable for a coding agent to implement
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come hang and chat with us about one of the tools that is McLuhan-ly shaping us!
OpenAI Developers
 @OpenAIDevs
Apr 6
Let’s talk about building with Codex. Join @ryannystrom, @derrickcchoi and @varunrau for a chat about Codex workflows, from exploring feature ideas to shipping together as a team. x.com/i/spaces/1YxNrZDqrOLxw
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secret to a successful launch: - build a feature - launch it to a small group of people - wait 5 years - 🚀 you're not gonna believe what's coming out in 2030
Notion
 @NotionHQ
Mar 17
New block: Tabs 🗂️ Sometimes a page has a lot going on. Tabs let you organize it in a new way… no subpages, no mile-long scroll. Type /tabs to try it out (rolling out now).
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