Airtable raises $185M and launches new low-code and automation features

39 points by doppp 5 years ago

ipnon 5 years ago

How does Airtable compare to Notion? What are the features that they have in common?

anaganisk 5 years ago

> How does Airtable compare to Notion? What are the features that they have in common?
Unless im missing something airtable = database and notion = wiki how are they supposed to be compared in the first place.
jacksonpollock 5 years ago

Airtable is a glorified spreadsheet. Notion is a glorified wiki.
- meowface 5 years ago
  
  What's Coda, by these analogies?
  
  mguerville 5 years ago
  
  Glorified markdown

tootahe45 5 years ago

$2.585 billion for a spread sheet company? yikes

davereinfeld 5 years ago

Definitely used as a 'better spreadsheet' by some, but also used as a no/low code app builder by many
https://blog.airtable.com/airtable-platform-launch-automatio...
- nojito 5 years ago
  
  Still lackluster compared to excel + powerapps + powerautomate
TheBill 5 years ago

Considering how much of the world runs on Excel? And the business process/productivity segment of MSFT had 46 Billion in rev?
- samblr 5 years ago
  
  Could you point to the source pls ? Wondering how much of that might be just excel
  
  TheBill 5 years ago
  
  https://www.statista.com/statistics/273482/segment-revenue-o... https://businessquant.com/microsoft-revenue-by-segment ~10B/quarter
  
  skinnymuch 5 years ago
  
  I wonder if OP meant how much is Excel responsible for, roughly.