Re:Microsoft announces Lists, a new Airtable-like app
by prepend on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @09:33PM
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I really liked the idea of airtable and use it for toy projects. But the record limit, version retention limits, and expensive per use pricing made it so I can’t use it on real projects.
Even simple stuff like asset tracking will go past the record limit and if I have to build something to dump and archive and then query both, I’d rather not bother as most systems I archive to have some UI and workflow option. So I’d rather have one mediocre system for the entire data than an awesome UI for part, and a mediocre system anyway.
The team seems smart, but I assume they have some technology architectural problems that make them not get big.
I would rather pay by data stored or I/o or something but charging the same for a user who adds 100 items per month as one who only reads or only adds one is hard to pay for.
Even simple stuff like asset tracking will go past the record limit and if I have to build something to dump and archive and then query both, I’d rather not bother as most systems I archive to have some UI and workflow option. So I’d rather have one mediocre system for the entire data than an awesome UI for part, and a mediocre system anyway.
The team seems smart, but I assume they have some technology architectural problems that make them not get big.
I would rather pay by data stored or I/o or something but charging the same for a user who adds 100 items per month as one who only reads or only adds one is hard to pay for.