Really enjoyed using Airtable over the years. It helped kickstart loooooads of cool projects.
Shame that they never really did anything with their billions in funding. Interfaces were underwhelming, and I would've been embarrassed to release Omni to the public quite frankly.
The writing's been on the wall for a while. I practically rebuilt and improved it for myself using Claude and won't be looking back.
MiroslavPokorny 3 hours ago [-]
This is why the west is dying. Instead of creating value, many are simply trying to cut. Nothing grows by cutting, you actually have less. This is why costs of chewing gum to housing is going uo, soo many parasites like this and so little who create new value.
pfannkuchen 1 hours ago [-]
Money supply expansion and attempts to suppress its effects are what is killing the west. That and usury, and a lot of dishonest people.
Like if we jack up mortgage rates to 100% housing prices would drop massively right? Okay at some point mortgages weren’t widespread and now they are, therefore a large percent of the increase in housing costs comes from mortgages enabling the bidding up of housing and land by pulling future earnings into the present. The effect on land is zero sum, and while the effect on the structure is positive sum to a degree (it’s a big contributor to housing getting bigger than it used to be and bigger than it needs to be), the overall effect is negative and so we would be vastly better off banning the practice. Of course that will never happen, but I find it curious that it isn’t even discussed.
Edit: I think Federico Simionato is particularly bad at product design.
Airtable hides a recap in plain sight - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173507 - August 2026 (0 comments)
Bending Spoons buying Airtable for $2.2B - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49168838 - August 2026 (4 comments)
Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166182 - August 2026 (118 comments)
Shame that they never really did anything with their billions in funding. Interfaces were underwhelming, and I would've been embarrassed to release Omni to the public quite frankly.
The writing's been on the wall for a while. I practically rebuilt and improved it for myself using Claude and won't be looking back.
Like if we jack up mortgage rates to 100% housing prices would drop massively right? Okay at some point mortgages weren’t widespread and now they are, therefore a large percent of the increase in housing costs comes from mortgages enabling the bidding up of housing and land by pulling future earnings into the present. The effect on land is zero sum, and while the effect on the structure is positive sum to a degree (it’s a big contributor to housing getting bigger than it used to be and bigger than it needs to be), the overall effect is negative and so we would be vastly better off banning the practice. Of course that will never happen, but I find it curious that it isn’t even discussed.