Airtable acquires Airplane • Hacker News Board

Re: Airtable acquires Airplane

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Post by satvikpendem » Thu, Jan 04, 2024, 6:55 AM UTC

wolverine876 wrote: post #109

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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It is fine to market on HN, as we have Show HN already, but in this case, it is still acceptable as they are offering a specific solution to the problem defined in the post, namely that Airplane customers must move off a shutdown product.

Re: Airtable acquires Airplane

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Post by wolverine876 » Thu, Jan 04, 2024, 7:00 AM UTC

satvikpendem wrote: post #111

wolverine876 wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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It is fine to market on HN, as we have Show HN already, but in this case, it is still acceptable as they are offering a specific solution to the problem defined in the post, namely that Airplane customers must move off a shutdown product.

Show HN is different. Why don't I see other marketing like the GGP?

Re: Airtable acquires Airplane

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Post by satvikpendem » Thu, Jan 04, 2024, 7:03 AM UTC

wolverine876 wrote: post #112

satvikpendem wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is fine to market on HN, as we have Show HN already, but in this case, it is still acceptable as they are offering a specific solution to the problem defined in the post, namely that Airplane customers must move off a shutdown product.

Show HN is different. Why don't I see other marketing like the GGP?

You often do on threads like these, with people posting about their related projects. As long as people are respectful and relevant, not spammy, the HN crowd generally sees it positively.

Re: Airtable acquires Airplane

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Post by wolverine876 » Thu, Jan 04, 2024, 7:03 AM UTC

satvikpendem wrote: post #113

wolverine876 wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Show HN is different. Why don't I see other marketing like the GGP?

You often do on threads like these, with people posting about their related projects. As long as people are respectful and relevant, not spammy, the HN crowd generally sees it positively.

Hmmm ... I must have overlooked them. I don't recall seeing something like it before. Or maybe you and I mean different things.

Re: Airtable acquires Airplane

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Post by ttymck » Thu, Jan 04, 2024, 7:16 AM UTC

All the comments here seem to be interpreting "sunsetting the platform" to mean existing users will have no access to airplane features. Couldn't it just mean "airplane will be part of the Airtable platform moving forward"?

Re: Airtable acquires Airplane

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Post by necatiozmen » Thu, Jan 04, 2024, 7:19 AM UTC

This is good example of vendor lock-in problem on low-code tools.

Re: Airtable acquires Airplane

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Post by foxbee » Thu, Jan 04, 2024, 7:27 AM UTC

Congratulations to the Airplane team.

Is this Airtable moving in the direction of low-code rather than no code? Puts them up against tools like:

Budibase [https://github.com/Budibase/budibase]

Retool [Https://retool.com]

Re: Airtable acquires Airplane

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Post by elbear » Thu, Jan 04, 2024, 7:31 AM UTC

wolverine876 wrote: post #114

satvikpendem wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You often do on threads like these, with people posting about their related projects. As long as people are respectful and relevant, not spammy, the HN crowd generally sees it positively.

Hmmm ... I must have overlooked them. I don't recall seeing something like it before. Or maybe you and I mean different things.

To offer another data point, I've also seen comments promoting alternatives on threads about acquisitions.

I find that the ethos of this community in general is more open to self-promotion.

Re: Airtable acquires Airplane

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Post by chii » Thu, Jan 04, 2024, 7:34 AM UTC

morgante wrote: post #104

dragonwriter wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

If they settled for an acquihire, then it must be the best out of all the alternatives - which means it's as big a payday as they'll ever get.

Re: Airtable acquires Airplane

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Post by Rapzid » Thu, Jan 04, 2024, 7:38 AM UTC

ttymck wrote: post #115

All the comments here seem to be interpreting "sunsetting the platform" to mean existing users will have no access to airplane features. Couldn't it just mean "airplane will be part of the Airtable platform moving forward"?

Almost certainly not.