I played around to see if this can actually replace Airtable. Because of its tight integration with Google apps (and how one day they could shutdown external Google Sheets API access), they probably have a decent advantage. Also free is good...Airtable pricing is not the most friendly/transparent for startups.
Tables: Tracking work for teams
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Re: Tables: Tracking work for teams
#102You know Google has a serious credibility problem when half or more of the comments on tech sites covering product launches are questioning when Google will decide to randomly pull the plug.
The opposite end of this spectrum is a company supporting far too many different properties like Yahoo did. How do you strike the right balance?
Most of it is just the HN echo chamber. Folks commenting that GCP my be shut down because it doesn't make as much money as Azure, totally oblivious to the fact that Google has billions invested in physical buildings and hardware being hammered on and built out around the world as we speak, just shows that folks here are out of the loop on this type of thing.
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#103What surprises me, more than the ton of comments about Google's credibility, is that I suspect nobody even tried to get more than a superficial understanding of what the product is supposed to do and what differentiates it. Surely I can't be the first one to notice that you can't even find out what this product does? The value proposition is a series of images, but you can't look at any one image & absorb the details…
It seems to be UI/UX for creating//editing//managing databases and interacting with them for non-programmers. Paraphrasing the video: Like sheets, but with structured data (columns define data types with relationships) and complex actions/triggers via bots. Per your original comment, given Google's track record with customer performance//services being dead on arrival, I can imagine few here are interested in learnin…
In other words, it's an AirTable clone.
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#104You know Google has a serious credibility problem when half or more of the comments on tech sites covering product launches are questioning when Google will decide to randomly pull the plug.
Google Docs and Sheets already feels like abandonedware. I haven't seen any substantial changes in years.
I can't imagine what additional features the overwhelming majority of people need out of a word processor or spreadsheet software.
Re: Tables: Tracking work for teams
#105What surprises me, more than the ton of comments about Google's credibility, is that I suspect nobody even tried to get more than a superficial understanding of what the product is supposed to do and what differentiates it. Surely I can't be the first one to notice that you can't even find out what this product does? The value proposition is a series of images, but you can't look at any one image & absorb the details…
It sounds like Notion to me. https://notion.so
More like AirTable
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#106This looks very similar to Notion (https://www.notion.so/).
The one big difference being that I believe Notion will outlive Tables - especially as Tables is already touted as an incubated project.
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#107We recently switch over a bunch of our internal doc systems (basecamp, trello, google docs, airtable) across many different teams all to Notion. I've been completely impressed with how great the software is. If anyone from the notion team sees this: kudos.
Re: Tables: Tracking work for teams
#108You know Google has a serious credibility problem when half or more of the comments on tech sites covering product launches are questioning when Google will decide to randomly pull the plug.
Google Docs and Sheets already feels like abandonedware. I haven't seen any substantial changes in years.
Viewing BigQuery data from your Sheet was a pretty nice addition, circa Jan 2019.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/g-suite/connecting-bi...
I'm inclined to agree with you on Docs though, there is a bunch of stuff that Notion does (really badly IMO) that Drive/Docs just can't do, and so people use Notion instead.
For example (in case any Google PMs are reading), folding bullets, easily embedding tables, embedding sub-docs, faster navigation/caching of folders in the web browser, and perhaps most important, a sensible way to build a wiki-type knowledge base, with "front pages" on each directory (like how Github handles README.md).
Re: Tables: Tracking work for teams
#109PRESS RELEASE Sept 22, 2021. Google Announces that Google Tables will be sunset and all users will have to migrate away by Sept 23, 2021. "Google Tables was a great experiment but we're migrating to Google Tracker - a better version of Google Tables designed for power users." said Dep Re. Kated, VP of Engineering at Google. Google Tables has no migration tool or system for users to export their data angering some use…
That was funny 10 years ago, may be.
What's funny is people acting like this is a joke. It isn't. Adding this to your workflow is asking for a headache in a few years when this gets shut down. Google currently has 5 products that are shutting down between now and the end of 2021. https://killedbygoogle.com/
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
The opposite end of this spectrum is a company supporting far too many different properties like Yahoo did. How do you strike the right balance?
Most of it is just the HN echo chamber. Folks commenting that GCP my be shut down because it doesn't make as much money as Azure, totally oblivious to the fact that Google has billions invested in physical buildings and hardware being hammered on and built out around the world as we speak, just shows that folks here are out of the loop on this type of thing.
> Most of it is just the HN echo chamber.
I don't think this is true. Plenty of "normal", non-HN people bring this up too (I mean, not my mom, but like regular somewhat tech-savvy people). You can point to GCP all you want, but people are just going to keep pointing to https://killedbygoogle.com/.