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Comment Re:Who? (Score 2, Informative) 13

Airtable Review (2026): The Best Spreadsheet-Database Hybrid for Teams?

What Is Airtable?
Airtable is a cloud-based platform that combines the simplicity of a spreadsheet with the power of a relational database. Founded in 2012 by Howie Liu, Andrew Ofstad, and Emmett Nicholas, Airtable has raised over $1.4 billion in funding and is valued at $11 billion. Over 450,000 organizations use Airtable, including companies like Netflix, Shopify, and the Red Cross.

The core concept: each Airtable “base” is a relational database with multiple linked tables, but the interface looks and feels like a spreadsheet. You get familiar row-and-column editing, plus database features like linked records, rollups, lookups, and field types (attachments, checkboxes, single/multi-select, dates, currency). Multiple views — grid, kanban, calendar, gallery, gantt, form — let different team members see the same data in the format most useful to them.

Airtable’s target audience is operations teams, marketing teams, product managers, and anyone who has outgrown spreadsheets but doesn’t need (or want to build) a full database application.

Comment Re: Enshittification marches ever onward (Score 1) 54

It’s a sunk cost for them—time and money have already gone into putting it in place, and taking it out would just mean less security in a world that’s only going to need more of it, especially with AI-driven attacks from increasingly hostile actors. In the end, like most things, it comes down to money—similar to when Intel set its CPUs apart with features like virtualization or ECC. Now, people will simply move to other CPUs or alternative chipsets.

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