Airtable was a really cool startup when they came out in 2012. There was nothing else like it. Now, with their mass layoffs, and free alternatives, it makes you wonder if they can survive as a company.
APITable: open-source Airtable alternative
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#12Airtable was a really cool startup when they came out in 2012. There was nothing else like it. Now, with their mass layoffs, and free alternatives, it makes you wonder if they can survive as a company.
They're a $10B+ company now. Incredible, isn't it?
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#13Looks good, are they going to offer a hosted model? I couldn't find pricing on their website, just an email sign-up.
Airtable's pricing just didn't work for me as an individual user - $$$s per month even for a simple table with ~2000 rows. At least Google had the good sense to make it accessible to individuals, because those same people then go on to make decisions at work.
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#14I hope you've reissued the secret keys you accidentally checked in (as you can see them in the PR diffs). Cool project!
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#15Airtable was so cool when I tried it years ago but it was insufferably slow. Just unusable as are many web apps these days unfortunately
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#17I don't see the point of this. Airtable sucks at anything except providing a managed database you can store a small amount of data in for free. If you have to do the hosting yourself, just choose postgres.
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#18I hope you've reissued the secret keys you accidentally checked in (as you can see them in the PR diffs). Cool project!
This alone doesn't fill me with much confidence. Such a basic opsec error.
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#19Looks good, are they going to offer a hosted model? I couldn't find pricing on their website, just an email sign-up. Airtable's pricing just didn't work for me as an individual user - $$$s per month even for a simple table with ~2000 rows. At least Google had the good sense to make it accessible to individuals, because those same people then go on to make decisions at work.
Google, with the monopoly profits it commands in search, can afford to subsidize everything else. A startup that does one thing cannot.
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#20I don't see the point of this. Airtable sucks at anything except providing a managed database you can store a small amount of data in for free. If you have to do the hosting yourself, just choose postgres.
Is there a user-friendly web interface for Postgres that you recommend? A database on its own isn’t really a replacement for Airtable.