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For The Record
Company blog · blog.airtable.comprogrammingweb
For The Record is the company blog at blog.airtable.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2015, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-29, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN links Airtable's company blog for its product launch announcement, a template for angel investing, and its hiring posts. The comments cite these posts as references rather than judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
Airtable | San Francisco, CA or Mountain View, CA | Onsite | Software Engineer, Product Engineer, Data Engineer, Data Scientist, SRE, Engineering Manager [COVID-19: The whole company is currently working remotely. Employees can be fully remote until at least summer 2021.] Airtable's mission is to expand human productivity by letting everyone create tools to organize their world. Our current product includes a real-t…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)”Submitted Airtable Apps as a story · 75 points
HN discussionAirtable | San Francisco, CA | Onsite or remote (USA only) | Software Engineer, Product Engineer, Data Engineer, Data Scientist, SRE Airtable's mission is to expand human productivity by letting everyone create tools to organize their world. Our current product includes a real-time collaborative database and a rich set of components for building tools using this database. Unlike single-purpose apps, we think of Airt…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2020)”Submitted Create a RESTful API complete with beautiful docs in 30 seconds as a story · 30 points
HN discussionMy company, frame.ai, uses a lightweight version of this pattern and have gotten a lot of value! One of our products helps teams ensure response times on shared Slack channels. On some teams, the duty schedule of who should respond in these channels evolves in complicated ways - for example, complex business hours and holidays, account managers with backup reps, and so on. Rather than attempt a one size fits all int…
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on “Wildcard: Spreadsheet-Driven Customization of Web Applications”Submitted Airtable – Introducing Interface Designer as a story · 5 points
HN discussionDefinitely 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...
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on “Airtable raises $185M and launches new low-code and automation features”Submitted Realtime collaborative database for the masses via iPad as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIs there OSS software or Obsidian templates for angel investors? The commercial SaaS versions cost a few hundred annually. Screenshots from Airtable version, https://blog.airtable.com/airtable-for-angel-investing/
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on “Ask HN: How do you organize your business ideas?”Submitted Using Airtable for Angel Investing (2022) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Airtable’s Quality Engineers Use Airtable (To Test Airtable) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing Airtable Blocks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Build your own custom blog CMS with Airtable and GatsbyJS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tutorial: Building a Slack Slash Command App with Airtable as the CMS as a story · 1 points
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