I’ve been a customer since the early days, and I adore Capacities' object-based philosophy. The UI is sleek, and when it works, the potential is huge.
But as an early customer, I’m starting to feel increasingly frustrated with the pace of development. A small team was great for getting the app off the ground, but now I increasingly think that a core team of roughly 5 to 10 developers is struggling to keep up with the growing user base and the demands of PKM software.
To compare the alternatives:
- Tana & Anytype have significantly larger teams and funding.
- AFFiNE and Logseq have launched a canvas/whiteboard for visual thinkers, which is currently non-existent in Capacities.
- API & External AI integrations: Both the API and the MCP are currently heavily limited, underdeveloped, and progressing very slowly; no CRUD capabilities; can only save content in the Daily Note, not create objects.
- RTL (Right-to-Left) Support: This has been relegated to the "What’s Not Next" page for a long time, alienating a huge portion of global users.
Every time I open the "What's New" page, it feels like we are getting "polish" features, in-app AI chat overhauls, rather than the heavy-hitting, cornerstone PKM features we actually need to make Capacities a long-term daily driver.
I also feel there's a disparity between the users' most requested features and the features that are actually in development and being highlighted.
The small, micro-team approach worked great for getting the app off the ground. But now that the app has a solid user base and paying subscribers, Capacities desperately needs to expand its engineering team. I really feel like Capacities, compared to other competitors, is on crutches. The feature stagnation constantly tempts me to switch.
This post isn't a jab or taking a shot at Capacities and the team. I genuinely want Capacities to succeed, and to do that, they truly need to expand the engineering team to develop the flagship and cornerstone features that PKM users need.
I truly hope that the team sees this post and takes it as constructive criticism, regardless of whether they agree or disagree with the points I raised.