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Your Spreadsheet Is Lying About Being A Database
Saas · Developer Tools · Enterprise

Your Spreadsheet Is Lying About Being A Database

Airtable, Coda and Smartsheet all look like grids. Only one of them actually links records the way a database does - and that difference decides what you can build.

airtable · codaRead →
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Your Software Has an Opinion About How You Think
Saas · Developer Tools · Enterprise

Your Software Has an Opinion About How You Think

Notion treats a database as one block inside a flexible page. Airtable treats the base as the whole product. The gap between page-first and database-first is really a gap between two ideas of how work should be organized.

notion · airtableRead →