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Howie Liu

Airtable - Realtime spreadsheet-database hybrid

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ashton kutcher
Congrats! Great product.
Howie Liu
Maker
@ssnacks, hey, I'm one of the cofounders of Airtable. Thanks for checking us out! You can: 1) Import a CSV (new app/table => import) 2) Directly copy and paste data from Excel/Google Spreadsheets/Numbers into a table.
Matias Pedro Arroyo
@howietl @ssnacks hi.I want to set an inventory for my clients, it is posible set a password for all of them? It is possible that they find his files with a searcher? Thanks!
Ryan Williams
@howietl I’m so glad I️ found this product. Fantastic job
Reuben Pressman
charting capabilities?
Howie Liu
Maker
@reubenpressman Coming soon. Basically you will be able to configure a view that is a chart (or a calendar, map, etc) instead of just a grid of data, and you'd be able to specify filters and group by statements. We may also integrate with 3rd party charting providers (ie Chart.io). Thoughts? Feel free to drop me a line at howie @ airtable.com if you want to discuss further!
Reuben Pressman
@howietl How can I get an update when this is available?
Howie Liu
Maker
@reubenpressman If you send me an email at howie@airtable.com, I'll put your contact info in our internal CRM (powered by Airtable, of course!) as awaiting that feature. Basically we have a table of people linked to another table of "Features" they're awaiting, and as we release each of those features we'll email the people who were waiting for it!
Danielle A. Vincent

We started using Airtable to manage our content projects at work. After using it for a month, I decided I liked it so much that I signed up for Zapier and Airtable to manage my personal projects as well. It has completely changed everything.

Pros:

Keeps things organized

Incredibly easy to use

Easily integrated with Zapier, so you can track almost anything

Flexible and configurable

Cons:

Formulas are complicated... would be nice if there was a formula builder

Matt Bettiol

This app is simply amazing! I have been using this as my replacement to Google Spreadsheets. The features inside of this amazing service are endless. If you have lots of data and want to organize it efficiently, this is the app for you :)

Pros:

Mobile app

Connected tables

Beautiful design

Advanced formulas

Pre-made templates

Basically free for personal use

Can add collaborators

Cons:

None!

Ryan Hoover
@jasoncrawford - if this isn't on your radar already, check it out.
Abhi Chirimar
Holy shit! This looks powerful. Way tooooo much happens in Excel still. Instantly reminded me of what Quip did to my MS Word usage.
Joe Anderson
Love the subtle design decisions you made for many parts of the product, this should be the standard for all spreadsheets/databases compared to the current systems
Howie Liu
Maker
@Anderson760 Thanks! Feel free to email me directly at howie@airtable.com if you ever have any questions or feedback!
ssnacks
Great way to visualize and manipulate data. How easy is it to get data into the system?
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This looks amazing, great work. The product tour is particularly impressive and I'm immediately finding excuses to use the app. A couple of initial thoughts: 1) It would be great to have a formula to count linked records for a given row (e.g. COUNT(Actors) in the Movies workspace). 2) Being able to access properties/columns of linked records would be incredibly valuable (e.g. AVERAGE(Actor.Age)). I might be an outlier here, and what I'm asking for is essential SQL queries, but if I'm working in a spreadsheet-database hybrid I'm going to want the best of both worlds, right? ;-)
Howie Liu
Maker
@colbyh Thanks very much! We actually do support this already in the form of "Roll Up Fields", rather than "Formulas". Roll Up Fields are used to aggregate up some attribute of linked foreign records. We don't support COUNT in rollup fields, but we will in the next release. Email me at howie @ airtable.com if you have trouble setting this up. For an example, check out our VC Portfolio Company example https://airtable.com/templates/v...
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@howietl The roll up fields are exactly what I was looking for, perfect. Any plans to make this go deeper than one table?
Howie Liu
Maker
@colbyh Can you email me at howie@airtable.com? There might be a way to do it with the existing formula/rollup fields, or we may need to build it out--depends on exactly what you're trying to do
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@howietl It's just a cursory look into the rollups, so I'm more or less throwing example data in and seeing what I can get out. When I start using Airtable `in anger` as they say I'll let you know if there's anything I can't seem to figure out!
Howie Liu
Maker
@colbyh Sounds good
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