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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 us
by howsta 10y ago
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/templates offers some more context!
- refik 10y agoThings 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 https://community.airtable.com/t/link-to-other-base/107/112 2) Being able to create linked records from form view
- howsta 10y agoThanks for the feedback!
- mjw1007 10y agoAirtable looks like exactly what the world needs for a modern system to let everyday users manage data well rather than bunging it all in a spreadsheet. But the row limits are too low for many obvious uses. I assume this is for technical reasons? Otherwise it doesn't make much sense that if you pay for 20 users to share a database you get the same number of rows as if you pay for two.
- snaily 10y agoQuick 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
- howsta 10y agoThanks for all the feedback! These are all things that we're considering : ). In particular #1 is actually in private beta right now!
- jpster 10y agoThank 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/ http://oppsdaily.com/ [2] https://nugget.one/daily https://nugget.one/daily
- jv22222 10y agoIronically, we used Airtable + Zapier as our core backend when we launched Nugget... It worked great!
- howsta 10y agoThanks for the kind words! We love Zapier and use it extensively ourselves : ). Here's some example workflows Zapier wrote about: https://zapier.com/blog/airtable-automations/ https://zapier.com/blog/airtable-automations/ https://zapier.com/blog/how-zapier-uses-airtable/ https://zapier.com/blog/how-zapier-uses-airtable/