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Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative

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Post by mikkom »

travisjungroth wrote: post #49
dbrereton wrote: post #38

There's an interesting trend of open source clones of popular products. Most recent one that comes to mind is Athens [0] which is an open source clone of Roam Research. The business model is always that people who really want it for free can self host, and people who don't want to deal with the hassle will pay for hosting. Seems like a reasonable strategy to me. [0] https://github.com/athensresearch/athens

I wonder if there’s a business model of paid hosting of other companies open source alternatives...

You mean AWS?

Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative

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Post by decentrality »

Had me at "self-hosted"

Following the repository now, and tried an online demo account. Looks promising but now quite ready.

Will be switching from Airtable when:

1. More field formats are supported ( like Currency, Collaborators, Multiselect )

2. Kanban views are supported

3. Automations are supported

Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative

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Post by donmcronald »

chrisblackwell wrote: post #50

I will be using this, and dropping a lot of my paid AirTable bases...and let me please explain why. Airtable makes it VERY hard to collaborate with people outside my organization. We are a team of 7 people. No longer a scrappy 1-person startup, but not an enterprise client by any-means. If I want to add a single person to an Airtable base, that's $24 a month please. I have one client with 12 people that want to colla…

> Everyone seems to be either single Pro user, or Enterprise. Do they really think there is nothing in-between?

Just like GitLab. If you have users that might post one or two issues a year you have to pay for them at dev level prices. $240 / year for idle users that barely participate? No thanks.

And they have the same tone deaf solution; upgrade to Ultimate.

Silicon Valley SaaS bros have lost touch with reality because they have unlimited money to work with.

Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative

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Post by bram2w »

showerst wrote: post #45

FYI if anyone from baserow is reading this, I tried following your docs at https://baserow.io/docs/guides%2Fdemo-environment and can't clone your git repo -- I'm getting permission denied. Once I looked up the HTTP url it worked fine, so I think you may have a permissions issue in gitlab.

Thanks for notifying me. I was not aware that it is not possible to clone the repo that way without being signed into GitLab. I will change the url in the docs to `https://gitlab.com/bramw/baserow.git`.

Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative

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Post by bram2w »

Exuma wrote: post #52

Hourglass on pricing tables makes no sense. I'm not a moron and after scanning the page I have no idea what this means... the only thing I can assume is some kind of feature not ready for production yet?

It means that those features have not been created. I agree with you that it has to clearer. We will add a small description what the hourglass icon means soon.

Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative

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Post by bram2w »

nojvek wrote: post #53

Something that would be really cool is if there was an open source - self hosted version of notion.so. I like notion because it’s a hybrid of wiki, table/database, calendar, kanban. You can do a lot more than just tables.

We are going to add Notion like features to Baserow in 2022. You should then be able to create similar documents within the same tool and it is going to work well together with the databases and tables that you already have.

Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative

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Post by loceng »

chrisblackwell wrote: post #50

I will be using this, and dropping a lot of my paid AirTable bases...and let me please explain why. Airtable makes it VERY hard to collaborate with people outside my organization. We are a team of 7 people. No longer a scrappy 1-person startup, but not an enterprise client by any-means. If I want to add a single person to an Airtable base, that's $24 a month please. I have one client with 12 people that want to colla…

"Why is this happening in the SasS world???"

It's the VC-finance industrial complex expecting a drive towards an IPO to exit while offloading the risk and unsustainable fees to the general public via misaligned stock brokers buying/selling to get fees vs. only benefitting long-term if their picks earn profit.

Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative

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Post by travisjungroth »

mikkom wrote: post #51
travisjungroth wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder if there’s a business model of paid hosting of other companies open source alternatives...

You mean AWS?

Yeah, something like that. But for all these SaaS apps.
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