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Airtable acquires Airplane

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Re: Airtable acquires Airplane

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Post by cddotdotslash »

dvdhsu wrote: post #66

I have a lot of respect for the product and the folks at Airplane. And I (even as a "competitor") find it sad that such a great product is being shut down. My best guess is that they were running out of cash. This to me is pretty surprising... because it's actually not hard to make a SaaS business profitable. You just have to build a great product, and be disciplined at hiring. It's weird that they seem to have done…

Maybe it’s time for some startups to evaluate whether they should have 60 employees when they’re only bringing in $1M in ARR.

Re: Airtable acquires Airplane

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Post by morgante »

dragonwriter wrote: post #65
swyx wrote: post #35

> As part of this transition, we will unfortunately be sunsetting the Airplane platform on March 1. We’ve closed new signups, and existing users will be receiving an email with further details. > To all our users and customers: we are sincerely grateful for your interest, support, and feedback over the years. It’s been a pleasure and an honor to learn about, collaborate with, and assist your organizations. i was/am a…

> i was/am a fan of the airplane founders but this is so disappointing. what went wrong? The airplane founders/owners got a big payday. What makes you think that, from their perspective, something went wrong? > no lessons to pass on to others. Someone just paid them for all their lessons, why would they give them away for free?

> The airplane founders/owners got a big payday.

I would not assume anyone got a major payout in an acquihire.

Re: Airtable acquires Airplane

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Post by HEGalloway »

encoderer wrote: post #100

we do a lot of cron-related seo and for years the airplane guys have been buying ads on tons of cron-related terms including our own brand, with the pitch “ditch your cron jobs for airplane”. Sigh. It truly sucks for the devs that took them up on that pitch. Meanwhile cron is still working fine. In their defense, dev tools businesses are hard. We’ve navigated it by staying lean with very efficient go to market, but t…

> dev tools businesses are hard

I understand why dev tools business are hard, i'm just curious as to what makes them hard? I know one of the things that make it a difficult sell is that devs don't buy much but what else?

Re: Airtable acquires Airplane

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Post by SpaghettiX »

ctb9 wrote: post #2

Welp, this changes my 2024 outlook. I've been using Airplane.dev since their first post on HN, and I was repeatedly delighted with the way the product "just worked", I thought they made great choices about code vs. config vs. admin, and their feature development velocity was superb. I was ready to really jump in and move beyond simple internal tools to build complex, mission critical internal systems in airplane. Doe…

I haven't used it, but Tooljet is the open source Retool. Also, there's AppSmith and Budibase. Both open source.

https://www.tooljet.com/

https://www.appsmith.com/

https://budibase.com/

Re: Airtable acquires Airplane

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Post by wolverine876 »

rubenfiszel wrote: post #98

(Founder of windmill.dev, the closest alternative to Airplane and we are OSS) Congrats on the acquisition Airplane team. You were a strong inspiration for us, a precursor and set a high-quality bar for pro-code developer platforms. I have nothing but respect for the Airplane team and we probably wouldn't exist in our current form without your competition. We are ready to migrate all Airplane customers and the migrati…

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