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by bram2w 1714 days ago
Disclaimer, I’m the founder of Baserow. Airtable is a fantastic product, but it’s also limited in the amount of records that you can store. Their enterprise plan supports a maximum of 100k records in your entire database. Another problem is that you don’t own your data because it’s a SaaS product and if you want to create an integration, you can only do so via their API which limits you in the amount of requests you can make per second. We wanted to solve these problems by building a turn-key open source no-code database tool that you can self host with a comparable user experience to Airtable. We have a different technical approach that allows you to store a lot of data while staying performant. Another nice advantage is that our code architecture is modular, that means you can create real custom plugins. You can create custom field types of visualize data in a different way by creating custom view types. Everything can be extended.
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The row limits in Airtable seem absurd, and to me make it seem like a great tool to use for prototyping but not for long-term production. The biology lab I'm in has a bunch of Filemaker databases I've been thinking of migrating to an Airtable-like system (because I can't be the only person who knows how to use it or maintain it) but we'd already be at 50k rows! And there's no way a small academic bio lab is going to pay "enterprise" plan money.

TL;DR I've been looking at Baserow as a possible solution, so thanks!

How do you plan to make money? Consulting?