I just played with Airtable a little, but I was a bit disappointed about the performance. If I copy+paste 250 rows, it takes 10 seconds.
Airtable gets $52M in funding
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#103Pg's startup idea YC would fund from 2008: 22. A web-based Excel/database hybrid. People often use Excel as a lightweight database. I suspect there's an opportunity to create the program such users wish existed, and that there are new things you could do if it were web-based. Like make it easier to get data into it, through forms or scraping. Don't make it feel like a database. That frightens people. The question to…
I bet every developer that has used sheets in a business setting has come to realize that there was a need for an intuitive web database with relations and forms. I was thinking about doing something like this the other day, also saw it Pg's startup list.
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#104Anyone used this for inventory tracking and management?
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#105What's the major difference between Airtable and FileMaker?
Theorem: All great Mac software is re-created as web-based apps.
Corollary: coming soon to your browser, HyperCard.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you think local government has IT infrastructure just for disaster operations, or if it does, that you can add a user to it in less than two business weeks, then you haven't worked in local government.
I have worked in local government, and have dealt with these departments. While most cities probably dont have this infrastructure, most states do and open it to local muni's for these exact scenarios. Like I said if they had to create something last minute this is great, I was just surprised at their appreciation to scale something to 60 users.
The state is not that efficient in coordinating with a municipality.
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#107Pg's startup idea YC would fund from 2008: 22. A web-based Excel/database hybrid. People often use Excel as a lightweight database. I suspect there's an opportunity to create the program such users wish existed, and that there are new things you could do if it were web-based. Like make it easier to get data into it, through forms or scraping. Don't make it feel like a database. That frightens people. The question to…
I bet every developer that has used sheets in a business setting has come to realize that there was a need for an intuitive web database with relations and forms. I was thinking about doing something like this the other day, also saw it Pg's startup list.
I bet there's still room for such a solution if it was targeted specifically to developers. I personally really liked Parse because of this functionality.
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#108I’m having trouble understanding what I would use Airtable for.
I run an online business and work with a few long term contractors. We mostly communicate in trello or slack. There isn’t really any inventory to mamage.
I’m assuming there’s an airtable use for me. But I haven’t been able to figure it out from their marketing. Is there a use case in particular I should look at as a start?
(Personal life management stuff would also be useful. I do have a small inventory system for both my office and apartmnet, for example. Mostly just keep some in stock, add to list when low)
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I discovered airtable not long ago, and planned to give it a try soon. What frightened me was exactly that middle ground though, my processes are too tied to the mail think products like streak meet it better. I will definetly test it
I've had success using Airtable with an email flow for an applicant tracking system. I: -posted a job ad with a specific reply-to email address -every time an applicant wrote to that email address, a row would automatically be added in an Airtable base -I would review their application and if I wanted to pass them on to a next step, I would select a pre-defined drop-down value in their row in the Airtable base to mar…
This sounds like a very interesting idea as a cohesive product. A normal user wouldn't be able to set this up themselves.
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have worked in local government, and have dealt with these departments. While most cities probably dont have this infrastructure, most states do and open it to local muni's for these exact scenarios. Like I said if they had to create something last minute this is great, I was just surprised at their appreciation to scale something to 60 users.
The state is not that efficient in coordinating with a municipality.
That state may not be, the one I worked for was, specifically setup to come to the aid of muni's in cases of emergency. But these plans and contingencies were obviously created out of previous tragedy/experiences.