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Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative

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Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative

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Something that would be really cool is if there was an open source - self hosted version of notion.so. I like notion because it’s a hybrid of wiki, table/database, calendar, kanban. You can do a lot more than just tables.

You can try us out when we launch, though for us it is more "assemble your own Notion tool like Lego" rather than an out-of-the-box Notion clone.

Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative

#82
This is very cool. I love airtable and I'm pretty sure I will install Baserow soon just to try it out.

Shameless plug: I just did a quick blog post listing that kind of products open source alternatives: https://www.juliendesrosiers.com/2021/03/13/open-source-self...

It's becoming more common these days to see serious businesses go open source from the start and gaining significant traction. Like Plausible, Gitlab, Bitwarden, etc.

Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative

#83
Looks great. I suggest you get rid of the decimal point and two decimals in the pricing so it’s simpler to understand, especially for people outside Europe that use commas in numbers differently.

€4 per user / month

is much easier to read and understand for most people than

€ 4,00 per user / month

The comma made it look a bit odd and like €400 initially when I glanced at it and it just seems like an unnecessary level of precision to include the two decimal points when they are both zero anyway.

Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative

#84

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…

It does seem odd for those "low code" tools to not have a way to deal with "external users". For example, it would be logical to create a tool for accepting job candidates. The internal facing piece would be limited to some reasonable number of users, but the outward facing piece would have to allow anyone to submit a record.

I do know that knack.com has a pricing model based on number of records instead of number of users. Might be an option for you, depending on how many records you have.

Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative

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post #53

Something that would be really cool is if there was an open source - self hosted version of notion.so. I like notion because it’s a hybrid of wiki, table/database, calendar, kanban. You can do a lot more than just tables.

Check out anytype.io

Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative

#87

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…

Ah $240/year, I wish it were that cheap. If you want the security goodies is $1200/year/user. You have to make the impossible choice of getting everyone involved with the tool, or getting all the features. Because you can't afford the features AND the users.

Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative

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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 think it's great that it's happening. Sure (for example) Baserow will never be as awesome as Airtable... but for users with extremely small use cases, hobbyists, or tiny startups - it works out. They aren't the niche Airtable wants and they can't afford it either.
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