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by CGamesPlay 845 days ago
Because the single-system paradigm doesn't work any more. However, modern replacements do exist, Airtable is one of the first; it's basically the notion of a "spreadsheet with more structure", and then building forms and such on top of that. I've recently been playing with Grist and like it, although it is rough around the edges.

https://www.getgrist.com
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keybits 845 days ago
I love Grist, and relevant to this discussion, it now has forms: https://www.getgrist.com/forms/

Grist is open source, Python scriptable and each project is stored in a SQLite database.

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datadrivenangel 845 days ago
Airtable also has a surprisingly small hard row limit. 50k rows is very easy to hit quickly.
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breadwinner 845 days ago
If you want Airtable, but with unlimited rows in the DB, that's Visual DB: https://visualdb.com You can use query parameters to specify which subset of records to bring to the frontend.
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