That is one possible remedy. But as you know, easier said than actually built. Putting it mildly, pricing models are already not their strong suit. :winking_face:
Indeed. However, you have to assume that Airtable wants to be in the CDN business. I’m pretty sure they don’t because that’s an entirely different business from building really cool database products.
Today, Airtable is a consumer of CDN services, not a producer. Producers can only do this well at scale, and Airtable’s CDN activity would be a rounding error for any company that does this as a core product offering. Not all revenue is good revenue; dollars don’t equate to profits and especially the case when you’re a small fish in a very large pond. I suspect they assessed this possibility and rejected it for exactly the reasons I mentioned.
In my view, I do agree that this is a good revenue stream for “someone”, but it’s a feature Airtable should fear trying to earn a profit with and apparently has already decided such.
I completely understand why you and many others would come to the conclusion that this would be good. It would compress the technology stack required to give users what they want while simplifying solution complexities. These benefits are not insignificant and I suspect it’s a reason many solution builders adopted Airtable in the first place. However, a new paid service like this would largely appeal either to enterprises (who do not already have CDN options) or Airtable users (who do not have either CDN options or extra cash to pay for added CDN features).
