ashton kutcher
@aplusk · founder Sound Ventures, Aplus
Congrats! Great product.
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Howie Liu
@howietl · Cofounder, CEO @ Airtable
@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.
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Matias Pedro Arroyo
@matiasparroyo · Entrepreneur
@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!
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Abhi Chirimar
@abhic
Holy shit! This looks powerful. Way tooooo much happens in Excel still. Instantly reminded me of what Quip did to my MS Word usage.
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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
@jasoncrawford - if this isn't on your radar already, check it out.
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Steven Sinofsky
@stevesi · a16z
Very exciting to see!
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Kevin Li
@liveink · #NewStuff
congrats on the launch! great work on the mobile version
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Joe Anderson
@anderson760 · Designer
@liveink mobile is pretty solid, the web modal translated really well there
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@colbyh · building stuff @ getbevel.com
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? ;-)
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Howie Liu
@howietl · Cofounder, CEO @ Airtable
@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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@colbyh · building stuff @ getbevel.com
@howietl The roll up fields are exactly what I was looking for, perfect. Any plans to make this go deeper than one table?
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Howie Liu
@howietl · Cofounder, CEO @ Airtable
@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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@colbyh · building stuff @ getbevel.com
@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!
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Howie Liu
@howietl · Cofounder, CEO @ Airtable
@colbyh Sounds good
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Joe Anderson
@anderson760 · Designer
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
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Howie Liu
@howietl · Cofounder, CEO @ Airtable
@Anderson760 Thanks! Feel free to email me directly at howie@airtable.com if you ever have any questions or feedback!
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Benjamin Orozco
@benoror
Wondering how this compares to Fieldbook?
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Reuben Pressman
@reubenpressman · Entrepreneur
charting capabilities?
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Howie Liu
@howietl · Cofounder, CEO @ Airtable
@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!
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Reuben Pressman
@reubenpressman · Entrepreneur
@howietl How can I get an update when this is available?
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Howie Liu
@howietl · Cofounder, CEO @ Airtable
@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!
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ssnacks
@ssnacks
Great way to visualize and manipulate data. How easy is it to get data into the system?
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Patrick Wills
@paddy · Founder, Earlymarket LLP
This is product is just unbelievably well executed - wow. I gave it a good test on the web interface and iPhone but they also have a new iPad version. I would love to know what stack they use.
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Chuma
@chumacritic · Co Founder, FlowByte
Love this product, especially the multiple views and linked tables!
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Marco Lombardo
@marticos · Web Developer Freelance
cool
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Farwa K
@itsfarwa · Product Designer
Takes organization to another level! Love this product. Going to play around with it a bit more before I replace my spreadsheets. Would like to see templates for moving houses under real estate.
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Mark Bao
@markbao · Founder, Ambition
Fantastic. There still isn't a great Microsoft Access replacement and it's 2014 – this seems like a great one. Nice UX, good tour. Looking forward to using it.
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Steven Hambleton
@stinhambo · Founder, Emailancer
We're using it to manage our sales leads, press contacts and beta schedule. It's been brilliant and I particularly love the mobile app and being able to relate fields to make consolidated groups of content like feedback per industry group.
Despite their free tier offering everything we need right now, I *want* to give Airtable my money! I suggest you do too :)
Also, Airtable's support has been nothing short of exemplary and I hear they're implementing some of the feature requests we've put through!
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Nguyen Huu Binh Minh
@nguyen_huu_binh_minh
Awesome, but I need some kind of location type which supports collecting longtitute and latitute in the app
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bleton
@bleton · Clubble.io
Bravo ! Very simple to use and you get everything you need in it ! What else can you dream of ?
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Dr. Mesosphere
@mtrifiro · SVP, Mesosphere
I absolutely LOVE this product. It is very versatile and fast, and has solved so many of those problems that I've suffered through trying to squeeze them into a spreadsheet.
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