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Airtable acquires Airplane
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Re: Airtable acquires Airplane
#42> 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…
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Re: Airtable acquires Airplane
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
usual caveat that fundraise announcements can happen anywhere from 1-18 months after the actual round was raised so dont read too much into the timing but also linkedin says that had up to 50 employees. highly doubt they were each making like 500k/yr cash on average
> but also linkedin says that had up to 50 employees. highly doubt they were each making like 500k/yr cash on average Cloud/servers/infra/where the bits live and move + people + misc biz expenses were assumed in my estimate.
if they were spending that much on cloud/servers/infra they wouldnt have a revenue problem... typically
Re: Airtable acquires Airplane
#44> 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…
> Also didnt Airtable just layoff 230 people 4 months ago. now they're acquihiring?
What was the reason for the layoff? Layoffs often just mean something like "we overhired/overinvested in this area, and it turns out that area is less important to our strategy than we thought."
Re: Airtable acquires Airplane
#45"An update on Airplane" "The update is we're cancelling it"
“Dear loyal customers, in these robust economic times we regret to inform you that we are laying you off. You have 3 months of support severance.”
Re: Airtable acquires Airplane
#46For an alternative to airplane.dev, you can checkout Windmill. https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill "Open-source developer infrastructure for internal tools (APIs, background jobs, workflows and UIs). Self-hostable alternative to Airplane, Pipedream, Superblocks and a simplified Temporal with autogenerated UIsm and custom UIs to trigger workflows and scripts as internal apps. Scripts are turned into sharable UIs…
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#47I don't understand the tone of this announcement at all. "This is your captain speaking. I'm excited to announce that I have a parachute. Also, the plane is crashing. I wish you all the best in the new year."
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't integrate early-stage SaaS as critical to your business is the main lesson here. You get laid-off just like their employees when they rush toward a shitty acquisition.
>Don't integrate early-stage SaaS as critical to your business is the main lesson here. Let's be honest, nobody had 'Airplane' as some critical part of their business.
You might be surprised how many shadow IT projects end up becoming load-bearing members in businesses. (I think this is mostly a good thing, because it works out a lot more often than it fails, but when it fails like this, it can be very disruptive.)
Re: Airtable acquires Airplane
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Over 450,000 organizations use Airtable and over 50% of the Fortune 500 are paying customers That’s Airtable (the acquirer) not Airplane. I’d be astonished if Airplane had anywhere near that much traction.
Airplanes don’t need traction, they need lift.
They also need a runway, which they don't.
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#50"Thousands of engineers use Airplane to rapidly build UIs and workload automation for engineering, support, and operations teams." "As part of this transition, we will unfortunately be sunsetting the Airplane platform on March 1." So these "thousands of engineers" will only have two months to redo all of their work?
But does it matter - he said he's excited!
Well, it has been an Incredible Journey.