[jarirajari]

True, excellent point about the availability. But homemade sheets are often tools you built yourself for you and not tools that you can buy from a store.

I see AirTable as a rich UI client that sits on top of data - btw, back in the days rich clients was a thing. I am curious how people would use server that is able to do business logic.

[warrenm]

I do not know if it is still the case (because I have not looked in 15+ years), but there used to be all kinds of add-ons you could buy for Excel that had prebuilt forms, charts, macros, etc

[jarirajari]

Hey, thanks! Definitely need to look into Excel add-ins!!

[warrenm]

they were definitely a not-insignificant market in the 90s through mid-00s!

(I bought a couple back in the day, even)