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Re: APITable: open-source Airtable alternative

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Post by cppshane » Mon, Dec 26, 2022, 7:04 PM UTC

panda_2134 wrote: post #65

I simply don't know what they're doing with their marketing strategies. Do they really think sending promotion emails in the name of unrelated popular products (claiming they're tied to bitwarden in email subject) will work? I received an email like [this]( https://imgur.com/a/CVAhQvs ) weeks ago. At first I was worried that bitwarden had leaked my email address, but then I found that the mail address that got the ma…

Yeah, they're apparently getting user emails from people who starred Bitwarden on GitHub.

See my reply to the post above.

Re: APITable: open-source Airtable alternative

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Post by darkteflon » Mon, Dec 26, 2022, 8:25 PM UTC

mark_mart wrote: post #45

darkteflon wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We use Airtable a lot with work projects; I also use it for some personal stuff - a web-available relational database is very convenient. But yup, it’s still slow as molasses.

Are they mostly for marketing? I have never needed something like Airtable, so just curious.

No, it’s very flexible. If you need to present complex relational data to clients in an easily digestible form, it has some nice tooling around that now in addition to basic views - Interfaces, they’re called. It doesn’t have the permissions granularity of rolling your own, but it’s surprisingly useful. We also built a custom CRM in it.

I also use it for personal things like aggregating transaction histories across financial institutions, personal contact management, etc. Although Notion has eaten its lunch a bit here imo.

Turns out that a web-available relational database is pretty useful.

Re: APITable: open-source Airtable alternative

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Post by petr25102018 » Wed, Dec 28, 2022, 11:13 PM UTC

pbronez wrote: post #66

esperent wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's kind of hard to compare the long lists on mobile but I couldn't see any features removed when you self host. What did I miss?

Yeah not easy to see on mobile. Their 5/user/mo “premium” plan adds Features: - XML and JSON export (vs just CSV) - Row comments - Row coloring - Public logo removal Views: - Kanban - Survey - Calendar (WIP) - Gantt (WIP) 10k rows, 5Gb storage per group. The “Advanced” $20/user/mo plan adds: Feature: Role-based Permissions Support 100k rows, 20GB storage per group

You will not lose any features by self-hosting. Quite the opposite, some enterprise features like SSO are only possible for self-hosted instances. Source: I work for Baserow.