Vertical Product on top of AirTable

Hey ​@Jean-Philippe_E,

Would you mind sharing further context?

Did you take a look at other platforms such as Softr, Noloco, Glide Apps, StackerHQ, others?
You would be able to build a user portal on top of Airtable, at a cheaper pricing. 
Depending on your expected record count you could assess having just one base with a user portal on top of it, to be shared by all clients (multi tenant). I would probably try to avoid this, and have each client work on its own base. 

Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation 
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Yes let me explain,

Let say I build a vertical for Business A in France. I mean a tailored AirTable, multiple view, automation , interfaces and connected to third party apps and database. I use Node-RED as a proxy for 3rd party access.

If company A want this tool, I assume

• they should take an AirTable account according to their needs
• create an admin account (for me)
• then I “copy” / “setup” my tailored AirTable

Q1 : The cost for Company A will be 240$ x collaobrators ? It’s the right way to do ? There is no reseller mechanism ?

And if these collaborators have final clients to share some documents, etc .. 

• Option 1 is to share read only view. But it’s hard to get feedbacks
• Option 2 is to buy pool of 8$ users that can only comment and have access to portal
  • In that case it could be less expensive to make a dedicated portal with another tool
• Option 3 is to have real users at 20$

Q2 : The good way is Option 1 + Option 2 or dedicated Portal like you said ?

Now, let say, I want to demo my tool or any AirTable cool feature

• Option 1 I use the Free tiers but I’ll be very limited
• Option 2 I have to take a “demo account” 240$/year to share with a target customer ?
  • Thre is no other options ?

Q3 : I uderstand I’ll have to pay 240$ at least to demo my product to others there is no alternative ?

My Feedback, I used to work on many non-profit project where AirTable would match. And I often invite people (high profile) that do not know the power of AirTable.

• If I invite 4 peoples to work on such project it will cost me 240$ x 4
• If I use the Free Tiers (because it’s not strategic nor lots of data) people won’t get the value of AirTable for instance no start/end date in a calendar … start only ..

Q4 :  My point is AirTable lost the opporortunity of new clients because we can’t showcase AirTable features without paying a lot of money (often for free project). AirTable should add 1-2 “collaborator” account to the Team Tiers or be more flexible of Free feature.

Hey ​@Jean-Philippe_E,

I see.. Unfotunately I believe your best shot is to use a third party app (softr, noloco, etc) as a front end solution. Otherwise you will be hitting this pay per seat limitation always!

Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation 
YouTube Channel 

What I understand is that softr is like AirTable Interface but in a 3rd Party app at 49$/month for 20 users. I’m surprised AirTable didn’t react to that ???

Airtable has a pricing / per user so the Hack is to have one user and put a frontend … thats disturbing

Hey ​@Jean-Philippe_E,

Yes that is one way of putting it lol.
Softr allows you to build front end solutions (mostly user portals) whilst having Airtable as your back-end (not fully needed as they also have their own Softr tables).

Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation 
YouTube Channel