Airtable seams cool but i have a hard time understanding where in the market they are.
Like between Excel and a relational db app? Not sure about that.
Some things that often fail in excel is:
* You cant easily verify what the user writes.
* It is hard to stop users from destroying the formulas that make it work.
* It becomes slow when the row count starts to go up.
* You cant have user roles where some users is suppose to be able to see one thing and edit another and another user is to edit another thing and see something else.
Sharepoint somewhat handles that with file locking and had some revision history and permissions support. Most people just put spreadsheets on shared folders, so of course they get blown up.
Airtable is basically an enterprise swiss army knife for solving trench-fighting issues. That's basically the market, freeing up developers to handle main projects to make it worth the company's time to employ them.
Some rando department needs a form for their new employees or needs to spreadsheet-collaborate? Instead of building some custom webapp, Airtable is a central point for those kinds of things where a more specialized workflow solution doesn't exist.
Like between Excel and a relational db app? Not sure about that.
Some things that often fail in excel is:
* You cant easily verify what the user writes.
* It is hard to stop users from destroying the formulas that make it work.
* It becomes slow when the row count starts to go up.
* You cant have user roles where some users is suppose to be able to see one thing and edit another and another user is to edit another thing and see something else.
* Data relationships are also mostly not there.