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Airtable is really neat indeed. But SpreadsheetDB aims to be more a database with an alternative paradigm than an actual spreadsheet editor.…",{"value":53,"source":47,"evidence":54},"Postgres",[55],{"id":50,"by":11,"text":51},"unknown",{"praise":58,"objections":71,"requests":101,"questions":109,"alternatives":114},[59],{"value":60,"source":61,"evidence":62},"Useful idea for querying data with spreadsheet-style tools","commenter",[63,67],{"id":64,"by":65,"text":66},"13978725","fiatjaf","The idea is very nice, but I don't like the fact that it is just an API for calculations. That kind of defeats the purpose of a spreadsheet format. At first I thought it was an…",{"id":68,"by":69,"text":70},"13979456","sandGorgon","pretty cool - I have been a fan of tools like Airtable.com (IMHO the best cloud spreadsheet I have seen). In my own startup, I have hacked together a version of a cloud…",[72,76,87,94],{"value":73,"source":61,"evidence":74},"Just an API for calculations, not a real spreadsheet app",[75],{"id":64,"by":65,"text":66},{"value":77,"source":61,"evidence":78},"Logo reads as 'preadsheet' and wraps badly on mobile",[79,83],{"id":80,"by":81,"text":82},"13979326","ukd1","Cool idea, but that logo just reads as \"preadsheet\", which, is not exactly positive.",{"id":84,"by":85,"text":86},"13979796","Zombieball","Good call out. I just want to add that the issue is exacerbated on a mobile phone. iPhone 6, portrait mode, the \"S\" and \"preadsheet\" are even on different lines! The linewrap…",{"value":88,"source":61,"evidence":89},"Hard for non-technical users since it needs curl and JSON",[90],{"id":91,"by":92,"text":93},"13982992","dizzystar","Was going to post about this. The ODBC support is actually pretty awesome, but it is a pain in the ass to get working on some databases. 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