Thoughts on Google Tables?
Yesterday we saw the launch of Google Tables, a direct competitor to Airtable and other great no-code products.
The nocode space is seriously heating up now, what are your thoughts on Tables? Have you tried it yet?
Glad to see Google building their own stuff instead of outright acquiring what's already there. Tempting: integration with the rest of Gsuite. But still not tempting enough to make the switch from Notion, at least for our use case(s).
Google are notorious of building things, neglecting them and eventually shutting them down.
Hey @sergio, thanks for letting me know of this thread. I was not really surprised that Google launched Tables since they are very aware how critical Google Spreadsheets is to businesses. For me this is yet another validation.
Overall I feel that Tables is still too rough for a product from Google, but that is how Google is. They can use their existing audience as a leverage which itself would pose as a challenge to Airtable, Monday or other similar players. But then again, this is B2B and also big Enterprise space. There is always a niche. And in this space there is a lot of money since these are daily drivers for businesses and will always be needed. Once you adopt a workflow product, you do not throw it away unless the product itself falls short of execution.
I am talking to a 40 people company in Germany and they would love an on-premise product. The CTO easily saw how my product could help their teams and I am trying my best to get them to pilot. They have enough money to take a Business or Enterprise license early on to support me if they see good usage.
@brainless good luck and congratulations on the potential customer. The on-premise/self-hosted option definitely provides value. Best wishes with them!
@andy Thank you so much. The mental support means a lot to me since building this product is going to take some time before it hits a sweet spot feature-wise. The on-premise feature is available in products like ReTool only in their Enterprise pricing level (call for price).
I am confident that the open source, on-premise community edition will get traction once I clear out some of the critical hurdles like authentication, deployment and documentation. I am currently setting up an Ansible based local setup process, please let me know if you want to try that out.
@brainless I'm glad to hear it's helpful and get to follow your journey a bit, as well. Right now I need to focus on some other projects, but I will certainly let you know if this becomes something I want to try out.
I'm definitely excited for this! I hope to see it stay in development. Could it be too early to rely on it heavily? At least it's open enough to easily get data out, though bots would need to be rebuilt another way. I'm a Google Sheets and Apps Script developer for the bulk of my freelance work, so I'm looking forward to seeing Tables integrated with Apps Script or be accessible via API. It would be nice to see it included in paid G Suite domains (at some tier, anyway). I think Tables makes for a nice product for a simple combo of the basics of Airtable and Zapier(?) put together that will be plenty sufficient for a number of projects.
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