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Why are the row limits so tight?! 1200 rows for the free tier, and only 5000 rows for the first paid tier! That's crazy low, given that Google Sheets gives yo

by wffurr 10y ago

Why are the row limits so tight?! 1200 rows for the free tier, and only 5000 rows for the first paid tier! That's crazy low, given that Google Sheets gives you 200,000 cells, or 10,000 20-column rows, for free. EDIT: That was from 2009. The current limit is 2,000,000 cells per sheet: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/37603?hl=en https://support.google.com/drive/answer/37603?hl=en

j_s 10y ago
Probably because they are in business to make money? Customers whose first priority is cost usually aren't good customers.
- rattray 10y ago
  Right, but even their more expensive paid plan has a 50k row limit, which is low enough to preclude whole classes of applications. They do claim a "custom number" of rows in their "contact us for pricing" plan, but the 50k number suggests that anything higher than that would have serious perf downsides with their current architecture.
  - mthoms 10y ago
    I read somewhere that AirTable is deliberately only targeting "human scale" data use cases.
- hueving 10y ago
  That's a daft statement. Every customer cares about cost. The only difference is the price points. If that saying meant anything meaningful, Walmart, Safeway, Ford, etc would not exist. I think what you meant to say was, "don't target customers not willing to pay enough for a profit margin." Much less catchy, but at least it's not bullshit.
  - j_s 10y ago
    I said: "Customers whose first priority is cost" (emphasis added) You said: "Every customer cares about cost" There's a world of difference right there! Appreciate you taking the time to comment but starting with "That's a daft statement" and ending with "bullshit", throwing in "I think what you want to say" for good measure? I must have hit a sore spot!
- wffurr 10y ago
  My silly little hobby spreadsheets that would benefit a lot from this are easily >1500 rows.

by wffurr 10y ago

j_s 10y ago

Probably because they are in business to make money? Customers whose first priority is cost usually aren't good customers.

rattray 10y ago
Right, but even their more expensive paid plan has a 50k row limit, which is low enough to preclude whole classes of applications. They do claim a "custom number" of rows in their "contact us for pricing" plan, but the 50k number suggests that anything higher than that would have serious perf downsides with their current architecture.
- mthoms 10y ago
  I read somewhere that AirTable is deliberately only targeting "human scale" data use cases.
hueving 10y ago
That's a daft statement. Every customer cares about cost. The only difference is the price points. If that saying meant anything meaningful, Walmart, Safeway, Ford, etc would not exist. I think what you meant to say was, "don't target customers not willing to pay enough for a profit margin." Much less catchy, but at least it's not bullshit.
- j_s 10y ago
  I said: "Customers whose first priority is cost" (emphasis added) You said: "Every customer cares about cost" There's a world of difference right there! Appreciate you taking the time to comment but starting with "That's a daft statement" and ending with "bullshit", throwing in "I think what you want to say" for good measure? I must have hit a sore spot!
wffurr 10y ago
My silly little hobby spreadsheets that would benefit a lot from this are easily >1500 rows.