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I would really like to see a good tool in the "beyond Google Sheets"-space. I tried Ragic just now for 10-15 minutes and it is far from simple, like their landing page claims. It is nothing at all like a database and it also is nothing at all like a spreadsheet (and not in a good way). Edit: Looking at previous discussions about it here on HN, the criticism in this 5 year old comment all still holds true: https://new…
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Not sure what you mean by "beyond Google Sheets" space, but there have been some cool spreadsheet tools emerging recently. http://www.alphasheets.com/ is still mostly in stealth (as far as I can tell) but they let you mix and match SQL, Python, R, and Excel formulae in a spreadsheet. Airtable seems pretty polished ( https://airtable.com/ ). Both of these are definitely spreadsheets, though. Not sure if you're looking…
Founder of Airtable here--Airtable is actually a relational database with foreign key relationships (the technicalities of which are abstracted away from the user). It's designed specifically to be somewhere between the accessibility of a spreadsheet and the customizability/structure of a Filemaker/Access/Force.com, all with a much more modern UX and collaboration experience. Airtable.com/product or Airtable.com/temp…
-- [1] http://oppsdaily.com/ [2] https://nugget.one/daily
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Founder of Airtable here--Airtable is actually a relational database with foreign key relationships (the technicalities of which are abstracted away from the user). It's designed specifically to be somewhere between the accessibility of a spreadsheet and the customizability/structure of a Filemaker/Access/Force.com, all with a much more modern UX and collaboration experience. Airtable.com/product or Airtable.com/temp…
Thank you for Airtable, I'm a big fan, especially of the Zapier integration. Lately there has been a lot of discussion on Hacker News about projects like Opps Daily [1] and Nugget [2], where people write in about some pain point they have in their daily job that might be solved by custom-built software. I get the impression that Airtable + Zapier could solve a lot of those use cases. -- [1] http://oppsdaily.com/ [2]…
I would really like to see a good tool in the "beyond Google Sheets"-space. I tried Ragic just now for 10-15 minutes and it is far from simple, like their landing page claims. It is nothing at all like a database and it also is nothing at all like a spreadsheet (and not in a good way). Edit: Looking at previous discussions about it here on HN, the criticism in this 5 year old comment all still holds true: https://new…
This particular application has name called database application builder (DAB). I think that's probably how DabbleDB got its name. Also checkout out Caspio ( http://caspio.com ) and ZenBase ( http://getzenbase.com ). They are similar products in this space.
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Founder of Airtable here--Airtable is actually a relational database with foreign key relationships (the technicalities of which are abstracted away from the user). It's designed specifically to be somewhere between the accessibility of a spreadsheet and the customizability/structure of a Filemaker/Access/Force.com, all with a much more modern UX and collaboration experience. Airtable.com/product or Airtable.com/temp…
Thank you for Airtable, I'm a big fan, especially of the Zapier integration. Lately there has been a lot of discussion on Hacker News about projects like Opps Daily [1] and Nugget [2], where people write in about some pain point they have in their daily job that might be solved by custom-built software. I get the impression that Airtable + Zapier could solve a lot of those use cases. -- [1] http://oppsdaily.com/ [2]…
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Founder of Airtable here--Airtable is actually a relational database with foreign key relationships (the technicalities of which are abstracted away from the user). It's designed specifically to be somewhere between the accessibility of a spreadsheet and the customizability/structure of a Filemaker/Access/Force.com, all with a much more modern UX and collaboration experience. Airtable.com/product or Airtable.com/temp…
Quick feature requests: 1) Foreign keys to users (for e.g. "assigned to", "team members") 2) Better programmability - right now, anything moderately complex requires a bunch of intermediate column (that then have to be hidden from all views). Objective spreadsheets (MIT SAIL) seems like something to aim for. 3) Programmatic (API) access to row history - at least read, for reports
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Founder of Airtable here--Airtable is actually a relational database with foreign key relationships (the technicalities of which are abstracted away from the user). It's designed specifically to be somewhere between the accessibility of a spreadsheet and the customizability/structure of a Filemaker/Access/Force.com, all with a much more modern UX and collaboration experience. Airtable.com/product or Airtable.com/temp…
Things that I would like to see in Airtable: 1) Being able to link tables in different bases https://community.airtable.com/t/link-to-other-base/107/112 2) Being able to create linked records from form view