Q: Hi, What are the differences between this and Airtable?

BTW, the page https://stackby.com/templates is broken

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Posted: Jan 9, 2020

We've resolved the issue. Please check now. Just hard refresh once - Ctrl + Shift + R.

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Posted: Jan 9, 2020

Stackby is an API first database platform focused on exposing true power of APIs to non-technical people to build their own tools vs Airtable is primarily modern database. No doubt they are an inspiring company. With primary focus on automation, Stackby differentiates from just being a modern database but much more than that.

Few benefits of using Stackby:

Full, pre-built API functions at column level: Stackby has native integrations with popular business apps like YouTube, Clearbit, Hunter.io, Mattermark and more. These can be integrated at the column level to pull information directly to your stack via those pre-built API functions. Just integrate your workspace, bring the API key, choose the API function to call and reference a data column to bring in information automatically. Configure once, and you’re set.

In-built JSON explorer: When you call an API function for an integration, you get the whole data (JSON) where you can select which data is to be shown at the column based on your API request. Airtable has Blocks, which offer pre-chosen data for the services; but we have curated list of popular business APIs from Stock (AlphaVantage), Lead Management (Clearbit, Hunter, FullContact), Funding (Mattermark), Translation (Google Translate), AI (Google NL), Video (YouTube), SEO (Google PageSpeed) and some more exciting ones coming.

Automation: You can refresh a single cell or select multiple cells to bring in information of that particular row - all in real-time. On Airtable, you have nothing like this. It’s not made for automation.

More actions at columns: You can also convert a column to push a message via Twilio using SMS and WhatsApp APIs. Send reminders and updates to your team members or your clients, with a click of a button.

Checklists and Reminders: You can not only add comments but also add individual checklists and set due-dates and automated reminders (Slack integration available) - all at individual rows.

Various other nuances: Newer layouts like detail layout, that allows anyone to create an updatable form to share within their team, collect responses and update the responses.

Posted: Jan 10, 2020

Thanks, Rachit for this info.

So If I have information about many Products/services in Table and want to display the information on the website, Can I do it with this tool with the help of APIs? Can you share more details on this including if any case study/use case?

Founder
Posted: Jan 10, 2020

Hi Rupesh,

You will be able to do this only after we release our Developer API. It's not available today but on the roadmap.

Hope it helps,
Rachit

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