[HN Gopher] Show HN: Stackby - Spreadsheets, Databases and No-co...
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Show HN: Stackby - Spreadsheets, Databases and No-code APIs in a
single platform
Author : rachitkhtor
Score : 64 points
Date : 2021-03-27 11:23 UTC (11 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (stackby.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (stackby.com)
| VinLucero wrote:
| Does this scale beyond the 100k row limit of Airtable?
| dvfjsdhgfv wrote:
| For a tool that manipulates my data, especially data that is
| important for me and my company, I really want a self-hostable
| version that I can deploy wherever I want. Wrapping your data,
| processes and workflows around a product that can easily
| disappear next month is not an option for me. If I ever need this
| kind of functionality, I will use Baserow instead.
| moralestapia wrote:
| Hi Rachit! Great product, I have a question, do you offer (or
| plan to offer) an API for developers? That kind of makes it or
| breaks it for me.
| CharlesW wrote:
| A beta API is apparently available:
| https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/7317658/SzmZbfQP?vers...
| benatkin wrote:
| I read the bar on the top as as:
|
| > Latecomers get charged 400% extra on all plans!
|
| With Comcast and all the other gimmicks out there I've come to
| prefer consistent pricing. Other than that all I sometimes want
| is a free trial, which I will more often than not cancel.
| showerst wrote:
| I tried to go to your pricing page on mobile and got 3 pop ups
| that I had to dismiss before I could see the content: two
| separate chats, one that made noise, and some email callout /beg.
|
| This really turns me off of your product.
| yawnxyz wrote:
| you should really get rid of all the popups when you first get to
| the site... that is SO off-putting. Especially the "woop woop"
| sound
| [deleted]
| bloudermilk wrote:
| I'm a big fan of Airtable and always happy to see more tools like
| it come to market. Curious though, why you've gone to such great
| lengths to copy their UI? There is plenty of room to leapfrog
| them (especially on the API side) but I think you're hurting
| yourself by following so closely in their footsteps. If I were
| going against a rapidly growing incumbent like that I'd be
| looking at ways of differentiating from the start. Good luck to
| you and your team!
| [deleted]
| CharlesW wrote:
| I was curious how Stackby stacked up against Airtable and found
| this comparison chart provided by Stackby:
| https://stackby.com/airtable-alternative
|
| Caution: The very first "missing" feature I checked, built-in
| automation, is wrong on Stackby's chart:
| https://support.airtable.com/hc/en-us/articles/360050974153-...
| tyingq wrote:
| Curious how you handle "external users" for pricing. Say I wanted
| to build an app for job applicant tracking, for example. The vast
| amount of functionality would be for the internal team. But, you
| would want external people to be able to apply, check status,
| note that they found a different job and want to opt out, etc.
| Per user pricing doesn't work well for that.
| fblp wrote:
| Hey glad to see some more established airtable competition,
| however one thing you've copied from airtable which you should
| differentiate on is pricing of storing data. Like airtable, your
| most expensive self-service (non-enteprise) plan has a cap of 1
| year of historic data storage. This is pathetic when compared to
| basically every other collaboration tool ranging from Google
| sheets to Trello.
|
| Sure, charge users for gb of storage, or data transfer - but
| arbitrarily deleting (or hiding) data that is more than 52 weeks
| old from customers who are paying you $18/user/month feels very
| hostile.
| moralestapia wrote:
| But that applies to history, right? Like undos, revisions,
| etc...
|
| Or is that "any data that is older than a year"?
| lejohnq wrote:
| For airtable, at least, yes this is just revision history.
| Not any data that is older than a year
| dangoor wrote:
| The pricing page seems reasonably clear that this is just
| revision history and not the current data.
| rapnie wrote:
| > Hey glad to see some more established airtable competition
|
| Also see Baserow that featured 2 weeks ago, it is fully open
| source and self-hostable:
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| https://baserow.io
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26448985
| yawnxyz wrote:
| another one is 8base.com, which seems very similar.
|
| Airtable needs to get their stuff together and expand their
| pretty terrible API
| stevesearer wrote:
| Arbitrary limits are very frustrating. Another service we use
| advertises pricing at $5/user/mo to upgrade to a plan with full
| history.
|
| You can have different teams including different sets of users
| (sales, dev, support etc).
|
| After we upgraded we learned that the stated pricing of
| $5/user/mo was actually $5/user/mo/team so if you were on two
| or three teams the price really jumps quickly.
|
| Luckily they didn't automatically upgrade all of our users for
| all teams. The main frustration is that there is no way to read
| the pricing page to know this before you sign up.
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