Jason Crawford
@jasoncrawford · Co-founder & CEO, Fieldbook
Fieldbook is a vision that goes back many years for me. It was based on two things that you find in businesses everywhere: First, a lot of overgrown spreadsheets being used for tracking lists – like projects, roadmap, user tests, clients, sales, or recruiting. Second, a lot of expensive in-house development projects – I've been a part of them – to build internal tools that are often not much more than a database with forms and maybe some reports or workflow.
Database tools and “app builders” give you a lot of power, but they feel heavyweight and typically require technical skills to set up. Fieldbook is as lightweight as a spreadsheet, so you can use it for even the simplest tasks. And it's based on a ton of usability testing with both technical and non-technical users, so you don't need to understand the inner workings of databases to use it.
I've been on Product Hunt since before Fieldbook was in beta, so I've been looking forward to sharing this with you all for a long time. Fieldbook is by and for makers – I can't wait to see what you all do with it.
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Jonah Katz
@jak1192 · Engineer, Camber Creative
A 'user friendly friendly phpmyadmin', perhaps?
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Jason Crawford
@jasoncrawford · Co-founder & CEO, Fieldbook
@jak1192 Perhaps :-) But really, Fieldbook is even easier than a traditional SQL database. Typing is optional: type any data anywhere you want, like a spreadsheet; restrict input types later as needed. Links between sheets (relations) are automatically two-way and many-to-many. Joins are implicit and automatic, even in queries/formulas. And for people who don't even know what half that stuff means, you can still use it!
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Hrishi Mittal
@hrishio · Founder, Learnetto.com
@jasoncrawford This looks cool. Do you have any plans for pulling in data from web apps? I'd love an integration with Gmail.
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Jason Crawford
@jasoncrawford · Co-founder & CEO, Fieldbook
@hrishio Definitely planning more integrations. What would you want to do with Gmail?
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Hrishi Mittal
@hrishio · Founder, Learnetto.com
@jasoncrawford If I can link Gmail contacts (by label) into Fieldbook, I could use it as a CRM. I want to minimise data entry.
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Joe Filcik
@jfilcik · Writer, Product Manager
@jasoncrawford Love the vision. I cut my teeth on building Access apps back in the High School then joined the Access team at MSFT out of College, so this problem space has always been near and dear to my heart. Good luck! How would you compare yourself to AirTable (since ProductHunt lists them as similar :))?
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Jason Crawford
@jasoncrawford · Co-founder & CEO, Fieldbook
@jfilcik Thanks Joe! Fieldbook's unique features, which are also our most popular, are: (1) the grouped view (like Trello meets spreadsheets), (2) the way that linked records show up on detail pages and can be fully viewed and edited, and (3) the advanced search/query UI. For elaboration on these points, see our tutorials: http://docs.fieldbook.com/docs/w...
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Joe Filcik
@jfilcik · Writer, Product Manager
@jasoncrawford Awesome! Sounds super interesting.I'll take a look.
Added you guys to three of my lists tracking these areas. Never added one product in all three 👍
Forms! - Collecting info from people, one textarea at a time - https://www.producthunt.com/@jfi...
List-making apps! - Apps for the Organized, the List Makers, the Wanna-be-OCD - https://www.producthunt.com/@jfi...
Accellerated Creation - New tools that make us better at creating awesomeness fast! - https://www.producthunt.com/@jfi...
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Tristan Zier
@tmzier · CEO & Co-Founder, Tandem
@jasoncrawford Congrats on finally sharing with the world!
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Daniel Schildt
@autiomaa · Interaction designer
@jasoncrawford Is there any options for exporting static version of the application? (for those who have to run things inside their own systems or inside EU area, for legal reasons…)
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Jason Crawford
@jasoncrawford · Co-founder & CEO, Fieldbook
@autiomaa Like an on-premise version? No, it's all cloud-based right now, sorry.
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Ross Blankenship
@rossblankenship · AngelKings.com, CEO and Partner
@jasoncrawford, tons of potential here.
Would love to hear more about your vision and what you and @bernard_ben are creating.
You'll get my info as I'm creating an account on Fieldbook now :)
Ping me via email.
Ross D. Blankenship
Managing Partner, http://angelkings.com
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