$8600 MRR business on Airtable

upen946 wrote: post #2

The backend is written in Node.js, TypeScript, PostgresQL, GraphQL and hosted on Heroku. The frontend is React.js, TypeScript and Airtable's Blocks SDK.

Not sure how that is different from a 8600 mrr business running on postgres; seems putting airtable in the title is just for clicks? It would be very interesting to read about someone building a $$$$ mrr business on just airtable; no programming.

Not that it is not impressive getting up a 8600 mrr business, so congrats.

Re: $8600 MRR business on Airtable

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Post by tluyben2 » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 9:15 AM UTC

What are the costs for airtable specifically? I checked it out a few times but even for toy projects it seems to cost a kidney if you have a tiny bit of traffic.

Re: $8600 MRR business on Airtable

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Post by fxtentacle » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 9:20 AM UTC

tluyben2 wrote: post #4

upen946 wrote: post #2

The backend is written in Node.js, TypeScript, PostgresQL, GraphQL and hosted on Heroku. The frontend is React.js, TypeScript and Airtable's Blocks SDK.

Not sure how that is different from a 8600 mrr business running on postgres; seems putting airtable in the title is just for clicks? It would be very interesting to read about someone building a $$$$ mrr business on just airtable; no programming. Not that it is not impressive getting up a 8600 mrr business, so congrats.

Apparently, you didn't read the article? The product, DataFetcher, imports data into Airtable because the customers are no-code users.

Re: $8600 MRR business on Airtable

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Post by rozenmd » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 9:22 AM UTC

The actual business website explains what it does better: https://datafetcher.com/

Re: $8600 MRR business on Airtable

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Post by wyem » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 9:24 AM UTC

tluyben2 wrote: post #4

upen946 wrote: post #2

The backend is written in Node.js, TypeScript, PostgresQL, GraphQL and hosted on Heroku. The frontend is React.js, TypeScript and Airtable's Blocks SDK.

Not sure how that is different from a 8600 mrr business running on postgres; seems putting airtable in the title is just for clicks? It would be very interesting to read about someone building a $$$$ mrr business on just airtable; no programming. Not that it is not impressive getting up a 8600 mrr business, so congrats.

You haven't read the article! He has made a no-code tool to import data from anywhere into Airtable! The backend is written in Node.js, TypeScript, PostgresQL, GraphQL and hosted on Heroku. The frontend is React.js, TypeScript and Airtable's Blocks SDK.

Re: $8600 MRR business on Airtable

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Post by karamanolev » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 9:25 AM UTC

tluyben2 wrote: post #4

upen946 wrote: post #2

The backend is written in Node.js, TypeScript, PostgresQL, GraphQL and hosted on Heroku. The frontend is React.js, TypeScript and Airtable's Blocks SDK.

Not sure how that is different from a 8600 mrr business running on postgres; seems putting airtable in the title is just for clicks? It would be very interesting to read about someone building a $$$$ mrr business on just airtable; no programming. Not that it is not impressive getting up a 8600 mrr business, so congrats.

I also got tricked, but it seems that "on Airtable" doesn't mean it's built on top of Airtable and is a "no-code business". It means built to interface with Airtable, as in "a tool for Airtable", for other no-code users. This is a very-much-code business.

Re: $8600 MRR business on Airtable

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Post by upen946 » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 9:25 AM UTC

buro9 wrote: post #3

For those also blocked by the newly registered domain: https://archive.ph/nsO2H

Oh what does this mean? HN blocks newly registered domains? Or Some people's firewall blocks newly registered websites?