What is Airtable? And Is It For Me?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 พ.ย. 2022
- Airtable is one of my favorite foundational tools that I use for a variety of projects, both for work and personally.
In this video I explain how you can take advantage of the versatility the tool offers to make it a go-to part of your daily worlflow.
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Best explanation on youtube for anyone who hears about Airtable for the first time.
I have been trying to learn about airtable and always come back to your videos. Your explanations are so clear and to the point and you have a welcoming, calm and positive energy. Keep smiling and shining! Thank you!
Wow, that means a ton! Really appreciate the encouragement 😊
this was so good. I needed a breakdown like this. Ty
a very clear, unbiased, and comprehensive introduction about Airtable. thank you
Amazingly explained! love your video
I came here because I'm considering Airtable versus Caspio. As a fan of communication, I just want to say Wow! Very clear, concise and helpful!
Thanks. I subscribed to your channel and used the link to create an account on Airtable.
Nicely done
Dan you made this so easy to understand. 😅
You explain this so well! From one Airtable fanatic to another (also, I use to be a music educator as well) funny how that happens.
Thank you! Love all the music teachers putting those analytical brains to use on software projects :)
I have a degree in music education, and I had to take some time off for health issues, and am doing some volunteer advocacy work to get back into things, where I found this….and a video done by a music teacher about it…and it’s weirdly full circle 😂
I heard about this today at this volunteer thing I’m doing for an advocacy group, and I was like OH MY GOD I NEED TO TELL EVERY NEURODIVERGENT PERSON I KNOW. Drudgery work and copying and pasting kills my soul lmao
Dan, this is excellent! Greetings from Germany :)
Thank you, Bianca!
Great video, Dan. I'm using Jotform but am having issues trying to show or hide non-input fields (such as paragraphs) in the PDF attachment that is emailed to customers upon submit. Today, I've just discovered that Airtable can push and pull data to and from Jotform, but is Airtable able to condition form data to "show and hide fields" in the PDF email attachment in Jotform? Or does Airtable have their own solution?
Which video were you referring to that compares airtable to spreadsheets at 0:40 sec?
Hi! Thanks for this presentation! Would you recommend Airtable in regards to Smartsheet? What are the main differencies between the 2 ? Do you have insights on the pricing model of Airtable ? does it work with add-ons / premium apps like Smartsheet to get the full potential of the product ? thanks a lot for your feedback !
I'd like to do a full video comparison in the next month or so between the two tools. Smartsheet is going to attract the finance crowd (who wants more spreadsheet functionality) and the older school project management teams who want something that feels like MS Project.
But for most companies, they're better off with a database tool like Airtable, linking together companies, people, orders, projects, tasks, etc. It's definitely more robust in terms of developing your own processes and applications.
In terms of pricing, Smartsheet appears cheaper on paper, until you realize you pretty much have to use their expensive addons. Airtable is a higher sticker price per user, but no additional addons (though you may want to use it with an ipaas tool like Zapier or Make)
@@danleeman Thanks a lot for the detailed answer, this is very helpful. Despite the overall design and presentation, the pricing is indeed a big pain point regarding smarthseet when you want to go with premium apps. Thanks a lot again!
Dan: ... and old tools like Microsoft Access...
Me: Ouch! That felt personal... 🥺
Haha, been there too friend
Hi Dan, I'm really interested about your use of air table as a teacher, lending instruments to pupils and so on, as I am looking for a solution for an instrument maker to keep track of instrument loans and also to be able to deal with repairs tracking and sales. Do you think Airtable is a good fit for this kind of application? PS: We have an MS Access DB doing all that at the moment but it is really clunky, as it is a 30 year old technology...
Yes! Airtable or SmartSuite would both be amazing solutions!
I know teachers don't have budget, so no worries there :) but I'd be happy to chat for 30min if you want to reach out on my website
@@danleeman wow what a quick response 😲 url to your site pls
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can airtable be used to make bookings for a webshop? or restaurants buys and sales discarded and employee checks? to have a better view on it? currently using excel
Yep! Might take a bit of testing to get it set up exactly the way you want it, but I don't see why these use cases couldn't be handled in Airtable. Most spreadsheet use cases translate well to Airtable, with a few exceptions around ad hoc data and financial reporting
Airtable sounds cool. I'm a front-end developer who's been looking for ways to store or at least read data directly from a database (not thru self created servers).
Heard of Google app script(GAS) and google sheet and was wowed by the combo. With GAS, you handle requests like you would on a server, giving you the possibility to validate and even authenticate requests like in a typical server. I really loved it, but curse CORS, such a fine concept all in vain. All post requests are blocked by CORS.
So am out here again, looking for free ways to capture data from a website into a database without going thru a server. Airtable may just be the thing. I'm heading to try it. If I could thank you in tongues I would. I more than appreciate this stream of infos on airtable. Again, thank you very 🙏
Also, as a dev, have you looked at Supabase? Airtable is great for the UI capabilities. Depending on scale you may want to take a look
@@danleeman The more the options the merrier. Gracias 🙏
Hi Dan .. is it a digital twin application ?
No, I wouldn't typically categorize it as a digital twin since it wouldn't have the analysis and simulation capabilities.
But it can be used to track things digitally, such as inventory management
I want to qicky build portfolio website using airtable. Can u create one video on this. Secondly If I want to use airtable platform as service (on AWS, AZURE, GCP) how to I go about it
Hi Srinivasa! Typically you would need a front-end tool (like Softr) in order to pull data from the Airtable database to present on a public-facing website. I do plan to release content on this, but it won't be for a while.
Airtable is only available as a hosted SAAS. If you need to self-host or host in a different cloud, you might want to check out some Airtable Alternatives: th-cam.com/video/TTvyMWu9BKw/w-d-xo.html which include some open source options.
@@danleeman looking for no code platform for creating portfolio websites for personal needs where the content is dynamic- fetching from database, let me know if you have any suggestions for me
@@SrinivasaRaoGurram I'm using Typedream right now which can pull from Notion as a backend for DB. They're a little up and coming but have a great team and you can ask them questions in a Slack community
does it work with separate mySQL? can the so created web application be customized with php and javascript?
Nope :) Good questions though. No code is a different kind of beast. Want to do reporting? Use their charts & interfaces or pull data via their API. No SQL access. Want to make a frontend application? You can build your own and pull data from the API, but there are also many tools available like Softr that integrate directly.
I had mad delivery app on framer, but, i want no code data base, is that possible
Haven't done a lot with Framer, but plenty of people use AT as the backend database as long as the frontend can consume data via API
I am kind of fascinated by Airtable. But If I want to implement it in a company, where there are around 14 employees who will feed in data every day, is Airtable going to help me, and how can I nullify the wrong entry done by any of the 14 employees.? Do let me know.
If you're quite concerned about data quality, you might be better served by SmartSuite's more granular permissions.
But with Airtable, you are able to create custom interfaces and view a history of what data has changed in your record
Hello new sub here.. I am a teacher too.
Thanks for all the hard work you do!
@@danleeman I appreciate your effort reading and replying to my comment.. Please educate us more with this kind of content.
Why using airtable instead of power automate?
Thanks so much for the video. It's made me see I'm MUCH better off just using a Google Sheet since Airtable is ridiculously cumbersome. I can't even resize the display of a field on a tablet. Or maybe I can, I don't know, and that's the problem. Airtable is so counterintuitive. Like setting a calculated field. It's just terrible. I hate to say it but I wish there were an app like Microsoft Access for mobile devices where I can just make my own forms and do simple things like print out a receipt from a mobile device with my own form.
Airtable is just horrible. So bad. And Monday? Don't get me started.
If your gut reaction is that Airtable and Monday are not usable as compared to a spreadsheet and MS Access, then you're better off building custom software that works with your specific set of use cases.
Also, if mobile ease of use is a priority, look at Glide.
@@danleeman Yeah, as a developer that's exactly what I'm going to do. I really wanted a new "for fun" project so I'm gunna look at Google Sheets and MS Excel to see which one I like better for mobile. See which I can bend to my will the best.
P.S. I haven't used Access in literally decades but you can't use it on mobile anyway.
Looks like Notion.
Some similarities, if anything, Notion is trying to be more like Airtable. Notion is much better at anything document-oriented. Airtable is much better at scalable databases.
Thanks!@@danleeman
Oh wow- did you used to be a band teacher??
Haha, you got it! Sounds like a few of us here from the comments section :)
Where is the data stored? Company don't allow data to be stored outside of company.
Good question. Airtable is only cloud hosted on their own servers. There are other open source options like Baserow available, or you could use a tool like Retool to plug into an existing DB you have and build a UI on top of it quite easily
so its an ugly sql?
You're probably not the target market for Airtable if that's your takeaway
To me it is just another database which if you know we'll open source then it is same thing (to me). Guess it like Firebase. And it is not free.