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by acjohnson55 892 days ago
I'm really bummed about this. Airplane is one of the dev tooling products I've been most excited about this past year. For those who aren't familiar, I'd say it's like a much fresher version of Jenkins, if you have ever used Jenkins as a runner of operational tasks beyond CI/CD.

And to see it shutdown with such short notice and no blessed migration path or ability to self-host is honestly a bit shocking. As a customer, it would have been nice to have seen this acknowledged with some empathy for the position it puts us in, or some explanation of why it wasn't feasible.

I'm also a little perplexed that Airtable thought highly enough of them to do the acquihire but didn't see value in keeping the product available. A company with Airtable's reach and SaaS sales experience may well have been able to get a lot more customers on the platform.

It's hard to be too mad, because I did enjoy using it and interfacing with their engineers.