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I wonder how big is the market for such „airtable clones“?

A4ET8a8uTh0 5y ago
I honestly can't say, but given prevalence of Excel and its well known limitations, I am not sure it is a niche market. Edit: not to poke too many holes, but why is alternative to Google using Firebase.
- artemonster 5y ago
  Selling „broad“ swissknife-like tools is harder than niche ones, so I am unsure here
- the-dude 5y ago
  Have you ever tried to convince an Excel user to try something else? How did it go?
ramraj07 5y ago
Slightly different model would be very valuable. Airtables 50k row limit is very annoying and blocks us from even trying.
- harinijan 5y ago
  Yes, Rowy has no limits on rows as it is actually an Airtable-like experience on Firebase database and not a nocode product that doesn't scale. You can go form MVP to scale without any limitations.
- artemonster 5y ago
  What is a use case? I am contemplating a more advanced excel-like app with separated flows for data acquisition (i.e. pulls via api), data management (tables, formulas, slicing) and view (graphing, input forms, buttons). I wonder if there would be a market for that and how to validate such idea…
- harinijan 5y ago
  Hi Ramraj, we literally had this painpoint ourselves and thats why we built it. Rowy is airtable-like experience but on your Google Firestore stack. That means its highly scalable without any limits. Give it a try.
runawaybottle 5y ago
To be honest, in certain enterprises (probably many startups as well) there’s just no need for UI other than tables. We get an api, mangle the result into some grouping, and then dump it into a table, over and over again. Sometimes we let the user click a row, and do something about it, hah.
harinijan 5y ago
Hi, rather than saying Airtable clone, we would like to say that we bring to you an Airtable-like experience but for your actual production database. So that non-technical users can access the data in a granular permission controlled interface while your developers can continue to build product functionality and scale and not have to do data BAU tasks.
topicseed 5y ago
Big enough for Google to release their own product soon — https://tables.area120.google.com/about https://tables.area120.google.com/about

I honestly can't say, but given prevalence of Excel and its well known limitations, I am not sure it is a niche market. Edit: not to poke too many holes, but why is alternative to Google using Firebase.

artemonster 5y ago
Selling „broad“ swissknife-like tools is harder than niche ones, so I am unsure here
the-dude 5y ago
Have you ever tried to convince an Excel user to try something else? How did it go?

ramraj07 5y ago

Slightly different model would be very valuable. Airtables 50k row limit is very annoying and blocks us from even trying.

harinijan 5y ago
Yes, Rowy has no limits on rows as it is actually an Airtable-like experience on Firebase database and not a nocode product that doesn't scale. You can go form MVP to scale without any limitations.
artemonster 5y ago
What is a use case? I am contemplating a more advanced excel-like app with separated flows for data acquisition (i.e. pulls via api), data management (tables, formulas, slicing) and view (graphing, input forms, buttons). I wonder if there would be a market for that and how to validate such idea…
harinijan 5y ago
Hi Ramraj, we literally had this painpoint ourselves and thats why we built it. Rowy is airtable-like experience but on your Google Firestore stack. That means its highly scalable without any limits. Give it a try.

runawaybottle 5y ago

To be honest, in certain enterprises (probably many startups as well) there’s just no need for UI other than tables. We get an api, mangle the result into some grouping, and then dump it into a table, over and over again. Sometimes we let the user click a row, and do something about it, hah.

harinijan 5y ago

Hi, rather than saying Airtable clone, we would like to say that we bring to you an Airtable-like experience but for your actual production database. So that non-technical users can access the data in a granular permission controlled interface while your developers can continue to build product functionality and scale and not have to do data BAU tasks.

topicseed 5y ago

Big enough for Google to release their own product soon — https://tables.area120.google.com/about https://tables.area120.google.com/about