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Most of the tasks in the article can now be solved by tools like airtable or notion with minimal training. Certainly much less training than would be required t
by jamii 5y ago
Most of the tasks in the article can now be solved by tools like airtable or notion with minimal training. Certainly much less training than would be required to do the same thing using traditional programming tools. So not only is the problem reasonable, we are actually making progress.
- civilized 5y agoWhat is airtable capable of these days? Last I checked, years ago, it was mainly an easy way to build and maintain a database. To be fair, though, a lot of apps are just a database with a CRUD UI
- jamii 5y agoA shared database with permissions and forms covers most of the task in the article. Airtable also now has an event/workflow system and a ton of integrations and plugins for doing stuff like sending email. https://www.airtable.com/product/views https://www.airtable.com/product/views https://www.airtable.com/product/automations https://www.airtable.com/product/automations https://www.airtable.com/integrations https://www.airtable.com/integrations It's getting to the point where it can handle most of the internal software needs of a small-medium company and also has a ton of javascript hooks for covering that last 20%.