Airtable gets $52M in funding
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Airtable gets $52M in funding
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Re: Airtable gets $52M in funding
#2Happy to see these guys doing well. Got turned onto their product middle of last year and have started using it for all sorts of stuff. Its a great middle ground between an excel file and building a custom app for things. Super flexible with very little learning curve. Girlfriend and I even use it to track which wines we've tried, like, and ratings and stuff for them.
Re: Airtable gets $52M in funding
#3Original Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8373914
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Re: Airtable gets $52M in funding
#4Happy to see these guys doing well. Got turned onto their product middle of last year and have started using it for all sorts of stuff. Its a great middle ground between an excel file and building a custom app for things. Super flexible with very little learning curve. Girlfriend and I even use it to track which wines we've tried, like, and ratings and stuff for them.
I discovered airtable not long ago, and planned to give it a try soon.
What frightened me was exactly that middle ground though, my processes are too tied to the mail think products like streak meet it better.
I will definetly test it
Re: Airtable gets $52M in funding
#5Happy to see these guys doing well. Got turned onto their product middle of last year and have started using it for all sorts of stuff. Its a great middle ground between an excel file and building a custom app for things. Super flexible with very little learning curve. Girlfriend and I even use it to track which wines we've tried, like, and ratings and stuff for them.
I discovered airtable not long ago, and planned to give it a try soon. What frightened me was exactly that middle ground though, my processes are too tied to the mail think products like streak meet it better. I will definetly test it
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Re: Airtable gets $52M in funding
#6Happy to see these guys doing well. Got turned onto their product middle of last year and have started using it for all sorts of stuff. Its a great middle ground between an excel file and building a custom app for things. Super flexible with very little learning curve. Girlfriend and I even use it to track which wines we've tried, like, and ratings and stuff for them.
Would you use a spreadsheet for that?
I'm asking sincerely, since most of open examples I see of people using Airtable and Fieldbook and other similar software is for these simple use cases -- in fact for tracking wines or whatever, a spreadsheet is maybe much better.
Now when I tried to use Fieldbook for a somewhat complex bunch of data that gets currently added, 5 tables with references between them it has quickly bloated and become slow to the point of not being usable anymore.
So I'm left with the impression that people mostly use these apps for simple use cases where a spreadsheet, or a Trello board, or even a text file would be better; and that complex use-cases are not supported at all -- as they wouldn't be in a spreadsheet.
Re: Airtable gets $52M in funding
#7Well deserved funding.
Airtable is one of those products that really changes the way you work or even think about building workflows. I use it as a middleware for uploading content to a side project website I own. Nothing out there is as flexible and easy to use as this (their API is also a piece of cake.)
They care deeply about their user experience and are always shipping features at an impressive pace. Really happy to see them growing.
Simply put. Airtable is like Smartsheets but for cool people :D
Re: Airtable gets $52M in funding
#8Original Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8373914 [alternatives link removed]
These alternatives are not alternatives at all.
Re: Airtable gets $52M in funding
#9Glad to see this company get more funding. Last year I ported all of our companys excel and access files over to airtable. Currently tweaking with their API to work with a MS-SQL database using amazon Lambda and RDS at the moment.
Their API documentation is fantastic, some of the best I've seen as well. They even have some of the best case studies for workflow management as well, posted on their blog, for setting up a relational database management setup in different use cases.
As a user who's also part of their alpha-test program, its exciting to see all the changes they made this year. They added blocks which lets you add app-like integrations such as forms, kanban, maps integration, page designer (think of mailmerge for word) etc. I personally have only dabbled in about half the things offered here, but its crazy how many things you can do with airtable.
I also wrote a popular excel VBA script for airtable too, for bulk downloading and renaming images found here on their forum. https://community.airtable.com/t/bulk-image-downloader-and-r....
Airtable has lots of potential use cases for startup apps as well, I highly suggest reading this article from a philosophical standpoint. http://sirupsen.com/minimum-viable-airtable/
Re: Airtable gets $52M in funding
#10Original Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8373914 [alternatives link removed]
These alternatives are not alternatives at all.
Thanks! I glanced very briefly after a Google search, and will reply later when I have time to my own comment with a legitimate list of alternatives.