For those who have tried, how does this compare to other Airtable alternatives like Nocodb, Baserow, Seatable, etc?
APITable: open-source Airtable alternative
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#22I see some serious red flags on their homepage:
* "Partners" just seem to be logo-hijacking potential hosting platforms (not actual partnerships)
* Most of the links in the footer don't work
* The testimonials use fake names + stock art
* API keys checked into a public repo
* Seems to be built by (or somehow associated with) this company (hhttps://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/312911-47), but with no links back
Please be careful using this product. Not trying to be insulting; but if you're going to use it I'd make sure you install it locally.
That being said, I love this as a concept. Airtable is so so nice as a backend/DB for simple sites, and I'm intrigued by an open source competitor!
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#24I 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.
We're building one – our first release is coming early 2023: https://github.com/centerofci/mathesar
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#25I see some serious red flags on their homepage: * "Partners" just seem to be logo-hijacking potential hosting platforms (not actual partnerships) * Most of the links in the footer don't work * The testimonials use fake names + stock art * API keys checked into a public repo * Seems to be built by (or somehow associated with) this company (h https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/312911-47 ), but with no links back Pl…
> Airtable is so so nice as a backend/DB for simple sites, and I'm intrigued by an open source competitor!
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#26Airtable 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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#27Before they get too far along they should consider changing the name. Airtable would probably have a good trademark infringement case that it’s confusingly similar.
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#28Airtable 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.
I have an account and I've tried to use it. It's never been clear to me who their paid customer is - though obviously they've found a ton of customers, so this is nothing more than my own curiosity.
The entry-level paid plan is limited to 5000 rows, so it's not a substitute for an SQL database. If I want to capture data in this type of app with a few hundred rows, why not use a spreadsheet, which everyone already knows how to use and already has installed? For other uses, Trello significantly overlaps, but with a simpler interface. Put differently, why pay for Airtable unless you need a performant way to manage a significant amount of data?
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#29I see some serious red flags on their homepage: * "Partners" just seem to be logo-hijacking potential hosting platforms (not actual partnerships) * Most of the links in the footer don't work * The testimonials use fake names + stock art * API keys checked into a public repo * Seems to be built by (or somehow associated with) this company (h https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/312911-47 ), but with no links back Pl…
It’s also AGPL licensed but has incompatibly-licensed dependencies.
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#30Airtable 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.
I have an account and I've tried to use it. It's never been clear to me who their paid customer is - though obviously they've found a ton of customers, so this is nothing more than my own curiosity. The entry-level paid plan is limited to 5000 rows, so it's not a substitute for an SQL database. If I want to capture data in this type of app with a few hundred rows, why not use a spreadsheet, which everyone already kno…
I’m using it for internal business process stuff. Like keeping track of client deliverables, events, things like that.
It’s basically the next step when you’re annoyed with Google Sheets for that kind of thing. The advantage is that it’s just super quick and easy to use for normal people that want to go one step past a normal excel type spreadsheet into something with a little bit of automation or custom views.