The product is great but their free tier row limitation is really low (500 rows per database). And then paid plans are expensive.
I was building a Jamstack site for my dad[0] using Airtable-as-a-backend, and we almost ran out for rows for his Soviet camera collection. We had to work the model around this limitation. It's not the kind of thing that made sense to pay for monthly even if the plans were cheap, and they're not.
The free limit is 1200 rows per DB now. The paid plans are expensive though. Cheapest is $120/year, and that's more than I'm personally willing to pay for any single piece of software. It's clear they're maximizing their revenue from team / enterprise sales.
That is good to hear! If you're going to have a free tier, 1,200 seems a lot more reasonable. Can't imagine that upping the count to 1,200 makes a negative difference in their conversions, given that as you said, it looks like their bread and butter is team/enterprise.
I recently came across sanity.io as a jamstack backend. Generous free offering. Rather than the spreadsheet model, you define your schema and get a nice CMS interface generated that you host as a static page
Thank you for sharing. Looks really nice. I'm always on the lookout for Jamstack backends. The spreadsheet model is great, though, because it's that much more immediately familiar for non-tech people who are otherwise acquainted with spreadsheets. Though I was surprised how much work it was to get convey the whole relational modeling thing. In that sense, a CMS interface might have been better.
I was building a Jamstack site for my dad[0] using Airtable-as-a-backend, and we almost ran out for rows for his Soviet camera collection. We had to work the model around this limitation. It's not the kind of thing that made sense to pay for monthly even if the plans were cheap, and they're not.
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