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Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative

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Post by Swizec »

donmcronald wrote: post #55
chrisblackwell wrote: post #50

I will be using this, and dropping a lot of my paid AirTable bases...and let me please explain why. Airtable makes it VERY hard to collaborate with people outside my organization. We are a team of 7 people. No longer a scrappy 1-person startup, but not an enterprise client by any-means. If I want to add a single person to an Airtable base, that's $24 a month please. I have one client with 12 people that want to colla…

> Everyone seems to be either single Pro user, or Enterprise. Do they really think there is nothing in-between? Just like GitLab. If you have users that might post one or two issues a year you have to pay for them at dev level prices. $240 / year for idle users that barely participate? No thanks. And they have the same tone deaf solution; upgrade to Ultimate. Silicon Valley SaaS bros have lost touch with reality beca…

> Silicon Valley SaaS bros have lost touch with reality because they have unlimited money to work with.

Disagree. The issue is that they don’t want cheap users. It lowers your average user value, impacts your valuation, and usually cheap users are the most demanding to support in relation to their revenue. A user that pays $50/year and has 5 questions to support us very different than 5 questions from a user posting $5000/year

Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative

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Post by showerst »

bram2w wrote: post #56
showerst wrote: post #45

FYI if anyone from baserow is reading this, I tried following your docs at https://baserow.io/docs/guides%2Fdemo-environment and can't clone your git repo -- I'm getting permission denied. Once I looked up the HTTP url it worked fine, so I think you may have a permissions issue in gitlab.

Thanks for notifying me. I was not aware that it is not possible to clone the repo that way without being signed into GitLab. I will change the url in the docs to ` https://gitlab.com/bramw/baserow.git `.

No problem! FYI the rest of the demo worked fine, pretty slick!

Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative

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Post by kennydude »

bram2w wrote: post #17

Hello everyone, I am Bram Wiepjes, the founder of Baserow. Baserow is an open source, soon to be open core, no-code database tool and Airtable alternative. Easily create your own relational database in a user friendly way without technical experience. - Unlimited rows. - Released under the MIT license. - Uses popular frameworks like Django and Vue.js. - Uses PostgreSQL as database backend. - It can be self hosted. -…

Nice to see this using Django and VueJS! :D

Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative

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Post by bram2w »

zwayhowder wrote: post #46
bram2w wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It depends a little bit on how you are going self host it. There are updating instructions at the bottom of https://baserow.io/docs/guides/installation/install-on-ubunt... and https://baserow.io/docs/guides/installation/install-on-cloud... We are going to make it much easier to self host and update in the future.

You lost me when there wasn't a docker image. I'd strongly encourage having one that can be dropped into a docker-compose config.

There are going to be production ready Docker images soon.

Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative

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Post by edjrage »

dbrereton wrote: post #38

There's an interesting trend of open source clones of popular products. Most recent one that comes to mind is Athens [0] which is an open source clone of Roam Research. The business model is always that people who really want it for free can self host, and people who don't want to deal with the hassle will pay for hosting. Seems like a reasonable strategy to me. [0] https://github.com/athensresearch/athens

I wasn't aware of Athens, thanks! There's also Logseq: https://github.com/logseq/logseq and a few others, but I forgot their names.

Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative

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Post by garduque »

I love Airtable but not the monthly invoice that comes with it. Signed up for your email newsletter so please do remind me when you get further along. Things like csv export and all of the pending field types are a necessity before I could even consider switching even my most basic bases.

Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative

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Post by Aeolun »

Swizec wrote: post #61
donmcronald wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Everyone seems to be either single Pro user, or Enterprise. Do they really think there is nothing in-between? Just like GitLab. If you have users that might post one or two issues a year you have to pay for them at dev level prices. $240 / year for idle users that barely participate? No thanks. And they have the same tone deaf solution; upgrade to Ultimate. Silicon Valley SaaS bros have lost touch with reality beca…

> Silicon Valley SaaS bros have lost touch with reality because they have unlimited money to work with. Disagree. The issue is that they don’t want cheap users. It lowers your average user value, impacts your valuation, and usually cheap users are the most demanding to support in relation to their revenue. A user that pays $50/year and has 5 questions to support us very different than 5 questions from a user posting…

The problem is getting those 5000/month accounts if nobody wants to use your product before they get there.

Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative

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Post by Exuma »

bram2w wrote: post #57
Exuma wrote: post #52

Hourglass on pricing tables makes no sense. I'm not a moron and after scanning the page I have no idea what this means... the only thing I can assume is some kind of feature not ready for production yet?

It means that those features have not been created. I agree with you that it has to clearer. We will add a small description what the hourglass icon means soon.

I would just write "coming soon" and make it very clear. a tiny legend is going to be only marginally better, when it should be clear at the expense of slightly fancy looking.
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