The new airtable pricing, is quite, frankly, a joke. We are now dealing with a company that is actively hostile to its user base. This is generally the users within small and medium sized businesses who are growing. I don't know about you guys, but for me, I have recommended 3 other businesses join airtable, have personally onboarded one, and have my own business on it. Not only that, but I heard about this tool from another person who was in the not-for-profit space. A huge slap in the face for us is the change in the Pro Plan, specifically that we have to move to Team Plan which has the following downgrades: Automation runs have been cut in half to 25,000 automation runs. API calls have been reduced from unlimited to 100,000. Attachment space has been cut in half from 20 GB to 10 GB. Multi-source syncing has been eliminated. For a couple of businesses I know, that has killed them and they'll have to move to teams and pay for some of their users who have access to a single interface for the purposes of ordering steel, or sending an invoice to a client. For now, you might be thinking, but, this is a small expense in regards to the overall revenue of a company right? Yep. But its NOT ABOUT THAT. It is about CONFIDENCE IN A PLATFORM. Airtable could be now considered hostile to its users. Airtable can now retroactively change pricing of the tool that you use as the foundation or a key part of your company's digital strategy. That is bad for the KEY INGREDIENT required in doing business - CONFIDENCE. I am very open to hearing from airtable about this, especially in light of other changes such as the changes to their PDF linking and formulas which was a huge pain in the ass. So, congrats I guess airtable? You want to up prices, try to get more enterprise, and kill growing SMB sentiment? Its a bold strategy, looking forward to see how it'll work out! You basically killed your word of mouth marketing, which to be fair is hard to track metric-wise (if you're lazy, but if you are a decent sales exec you will see your organic growth vs attributable to paid marketing growth but whatever) so for people like me and other SMB's we are **bleep** out of luck.
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