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I still remember when Airtable felt magical. For many of us in the no-code world, Airtable wasn't just another SaaS product - it was the platform that inspired an entire generation of builders and helped create the no-code movement we know today. Softr wouldn't be where it is today without that ecosystem. For years, thousands of our customers built incredible businesses on top of Airtable using Softr as the application layer. But somewhere along the way, something changed. As Airtable matured, many early users felt the company shifted from a community-first builder platform toward an enterprise-focused organization. The product became more complex, prices increased drastically, API and usage limits increased across all the plans, and many long-time advocates told us they no longer felt the same connection they once had. Today's acquisition by Bending Spoons feels like the end of that chapter. Bending Spoons has a well-known operating playbook, and time will tell what that means for Airtable and its customers. I genuinely hope they succeed, because hundreds of thousands of businesses depend on Airtable every day. But this moment also reinforces something we've believed at Softr from day one. - Never lose sight of the people who got you here. While others optimized for enterprise accounts, we've stayed obsessed with our community, our customers, and shipping what they actually ask for. The biggest shift, though, isn't Airtable's acquisition. It's how software itself is changing. This acquisition, and all the reasons stated for it, shows us the future isn’t just no-code. It's AI + no-code - a new way to build software, not by drag & drop, not by writing code from scratch, but combining best of both worlds - the magic and personalisation of AI, with the security and governance of no-code. That's why more and more teams are moving from Airtable to Softr. Not because we're trying to build a better Airtable. Because we're building what comes next. And we are here for the long run. If you are a current Airtable customer, were thinking to adopt it and now not sure where all this is headed, or looking to evaluate what’s possible with Softr, I’m happy to hop on a call and show you what Softr is capable of. https://lnkd.in/d8_2XUUA #softr #airtable #bendingspoons

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If your teams want to build with AI, you have three options. Only one of them works for the people who actually need the apps. 𝟭/ 𝗩𝗶𝗯𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 Great for testing an idea. But what you get is a generated codebase. Someone has to review it, secure it, host it, and fix it when it breaks. For a business team, that someone doesn't exist. So it either becomes IT's problem, or it quietly runs with no one responsible. 𝟮/ 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗜𝗬 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸 An AI coding agent, a database, a hosting provider. Powerful if you have engineers. But every app becomes its own project: auth, permissions, API calls, and audit logs, built and maintained again each time. 𝟯/ 𝗔 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀, 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗜𝗧 This is the one we built Softr to be. Ops, Marketing, Sales, and Finance teams build the apps they need, with AI, without generating code. IT sets the rules once: who can build and publish, SSO and roles, which data sources connect, and who can see which records. Every app follows those rules automatically. 𝘕𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸. 𝘕𝘰 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘱𝘱. 𝘕𝘰 2𝘢𝘮 𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘵 𝘪𝘵. Celonis is a good example. A small team built a GTM knowledge base on Softr in under five days, including custom UI through our Vibe Coding block. It became one of the top three core tools for 1,500+ GTM team members. It still runs on the same governed foundation as everything else they build. 𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁, 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀. 𝗜𝗳 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗿𝘂𝗻 𝗼𝗻, 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝗱-𝘁𝗼-𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 - 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗜𝗧 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝘀 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗣𝗜 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹𝘀. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/deJcGaxC Which one are most of your internal apps today? #softr #aiappbuilder #ai #secure #IT

AI solved the wrong half of the problem. Building an internal app used to take engineers and a quarter of patience. Now anyone can describe one and have it running by lunch. But in May, researchers at Red Access looked at apps built on popular vibe coding tools. They found more than 5,000 with no authentication, and most exposed private corporate or personal data to anyone with the URL. That included medical information, financial data, strategy documents, and chatbot conversation logs. I spoke with an IT leader last week who described discovering AI-built apps every week that no one could account for. Building is no longer the bottleneck. Owning what gets built is. That's the problem we're solving at Softr: making sure what a business team builds with AI is secure the day it goes live, not after someone remembers to lock it down. Keep using AI to prototype. Just don't run your operations on a codebase nobody owns. Check out more here: https://lnkd.in/dHAmYjyM #softr #AI #IT #security #governance

Does everyone at your company use Claude to build things you don't know about? Then at some point youll discover you have 5 CRMs. 7 employee directories. 3 vendor trackers. Each one built by a different person, on a different stack, with its own logic for who sees what. I hear some version of this in almost every conversation with IT leaders right now. The people building them arent doing anything wrong. They had a real problem, AI let them solve it in an afternoon, and they moved on. Thats exactly what we want employees to do. The problem shows up later. - One app lets every employee see salaries because nobody set up roles. - Another still gives access to a contractor who left in March. - A third has the customer database key sitting in the frontend code. - Nobody knows which version of the customer list is the real one. And when something leaks, nobody can answer the first question security will ask: who had access to what? Every one of those apps made its own decisions about permissions - or didnt make any. AI will not solve this for you. Building is easy now. Consistent roles and permissions across everything people build is not. Thats the problem were solving at Softr. Teams still build what they need, including from Claude through our MCP, which can only do what the person using it is allowed to do. The difference is where it all lives. Everything runs on one infrastructure that IT has approved, with the same rules across every team: roles and permissions, which integrations and APIs are allowed, and who can see which records. So you get one CRM with the right people in it, not five with everyone in them. How many internal tools do you think your company has that IT has never heard of? Check it out: https://lnkd.in/dX_z6uvH #softr #IT #shadowIT

With Softr, non-tech teams can build and maintain their own dashboards, portals, and apps. Security built-in, no devs required.