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The low-code movement has attracted an even higher level of attention as a result of the pandemic, during which organizations from hospitals to government entities and corporations have had to develop online offerings at a faster pace than ever expected and for new use cases.

This movement is part of an increasing democratization of programming -- borne of extreme necessity. At a time when digital transformation is everywhere, "relying on IT departments and professional programmers is unsustainable," an O'Reilly report states. "We need to enable people who aren't programmers to develop the software they need. We need to enable people to solve their own computational problems." 

You can read the full article here.

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After so many years of waiting, Airtable has finally rolled out its own Interface Designer! Now you can share beautiful and organized interfaces that cater to your specific audience's needs, ensuring they see the information that matter to them. It's an interactive experience and is definitely a game changer for team collaboration! 

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Firefighters in Washington state used Airtable to track COVID cases since the early stages of the pandemic.

“Firefighters don’t have time for you to write a bunch of code,” 

For Kramer, the Airtable system was a godsend during an anxious period. Pulling data went from hours to just 15 minutes.  

“We’d closed our office, I was working from home. It took a lot of stress off,” she says. “It was easy for the members to use, easy for me on the back end, and you could see real-time data at any time. It was huge.”

The system worked so well that it turned heads in other states.

To read more about the story, you can read the full article here.

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It's no surprise that a no-code founder and CEO made it to Fortune's 40 Under 40 list for 2021, and I think it's safe to say that more and more no-code presence in top tech lists is to be expected in the next coming years. No-code has indeed proven its strength, flexibility and wickedly fast turnaround time and time again, and 2020 has only helped many organizations get to this realization. 

Airtable’s cloud-based, spreadsheet-meets-database platform is hugely popular with enterprise customers, including Fortune 500 heavyweights like Amazon, IBM, Nike, and Netflix. As the pandemic has heightened the need for cloud-based collaboration, Airtable has only grown its reach; more than 250,000 organizations now use its services, and the startup’s most recent funding round in March valued it at nearly $5.8 billion.

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Airtable just announced their first acquisition of a startup visualization tech, Bayes.

According to Bayes co-founder Will Strimling, "After comparing our respective roadmaps and future plans, it became clear that by working together we could build something that is greater than the sum of its parts — an Airtable with even more insights, visualizations and reporting features that will continue to improve the way teams manage workflows.”

It should be exciting to see the possibilities of the joint strengths of the two. To know more about the acquisition, you can read it the TechCrunch article here.

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The low-code movement has attracted an even higher level of attention as a result of the pandemic, during which organizations from hospitals to government entities and corporations have had to develop online offerings at a faster pace than ever expected and for new use cases.

Because of the sudden pick up in trend in these tools, Forbes has come up with the Top Cloud 100 for 6 years in a row now. Here's how Airtable fared over the last 4 years.

2018: #81

2019: #35

2020: #23

2021: #16

Airtable made it to #16 this year!

You can see the list of Forbes Cloud 100 for 2021 here.

It's no surprise that Airtable is picking up popularity drastically. More and more businesses are shifting to in-house ops instead of farming out to different agencies. In the middle of the pandemic, the low-code startup has raised $185M and $2.585B in valuation. So it also doesn't come as a surprise that Airtable makes it to another Top 10 List for No-Code apps yet again. HubSpot's VP for Platform Ecosystem Scott Brinker names Airtable as one of eight top no-code apps for marketers which include the 3 kinds of no-code superpowers: Automation, Augmentation, and Integration.

Read more on the article here.

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Here's the story of how GitHub's Stars program and GitHub's Education team cut down on costs and time by streamlining their workflows in Airtable.

"Pindoria’s Airtable base has now become the command center for managing the GitHub Stars program."

"Reviewing a single applicant used to take almost four hours, but with their new Airtable workflow, it takes only 15 minutes."

As GitHub and its developer community continue to grow, their Developer Relations and GitHub Education teams will adapt and scale with Airtable. Avoiding the need for expensive developer-built tools and manual workflows, they can focus on what really matters: fostering the world’s largest community of developers.

Read more on the article here.

You can now automatically pull a business object -contacts, leads, accounts, etc.- report from Salesforce into a table on an ongoing basis via Airtable Sync! You no longer need a third-party automation to do this. Now, Airtable and Salesforce sync has in-house automation!

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Airtable made it to CNBC's #Disruptor50 list for 2020, taking the 46th spot. The low-code startup has raised $625M and at $5.7B valuation!

"In the ninth annual Disruptor 50 list, CNBC highlights the private companies leading out of the pandemic with business models and growth rates aligned with a rapid pace of technological change. Investors have taken notice that the companies on the 2021 Disruptor 50 list have become critical players in fundamental economic and consumer transformations." - CNBC

To read more about it, you can check it our here.

Red Bull Media House is synonymous with ambitious storytelling. Before using Airtable, their content lived in emails, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations and Google Sheets. The workflows were dependent on which country, team and content partners were involved. Now on Airtable, everyone is on the same page with the same workflows across the board, and country.

Read more about how they use Airtable as their global content pipeline to produce 1,250+ events per year & distribute content in 170+ countries here.

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Airtable is even more powerful and convenient because it now allows users to sync data from multiple sources (external or internal) into one table.

Automatically pull events from Google Calendar and Jira Cloud into a table on an ongoing basis via Airtable Sync. And currently in open beta, automatically pull file upload information from Box via Airtable Sync.

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Gantt has been upgraded into the View user interface! Previously an app, Gantt View enables you to visualize a schedule of related activities over time—like tasks, projects, or events—on a Gantt chart. Project management, production timelines, and resource management are now easier than ever with Airtable!

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With the new funding, Airtable has more than doubled its valuation since end of 3rd quarter last 2020. The cloud software startup was approached by Greenoaks Capital to invest. Howie Liu, CEO of Airtable said, "We are going to aggressively invest into improving the stability and scalability of the product, go into new service areas, and increase our sales and marketing. But we're doing it in a disciplined way where we are still in control of our business."

Read more about the Forbes article here.

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The No-Code trend has been gaining popularity for quite some time now and Harvard Business Review pointed it out in 2015. The No-Code revolution is dubbed "one of the most disruptive trends in the industry right now."

More and more companies are turning to No-Code development because it's faster and more attuned to the current technologies. With No-Code tools, they can keep customer relationships in-house rather than outsource. By doing this, they're effectively storing all related data to make data-driven decisions.

You can read more on the Harvard Business Review article here.

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In the span of a year, Airtable went from a simple REST API to now supporting scripting, a custom apps SDK, built in automations, and a small but growing ecosystem of third-party tools and services.

Airtable is basically a hosted database fused to an easy interface for creating and managing data. This easy-to-use interface means the database schema is super flexible. Airtable is ready for developers to build on its platform. With scripts, automations, the app SDK, REST API and new tools like Sync Inc, a developer can now build in and on Airtable confidently.

The year 2020 was truly where the No-Code community came together. Whether inspired by rising needs for a side hustle or the spark of intellectual curiosity, 2020 saw record numbers of new people join the community. During 2020, over 100 no-code projects and tools launched on Product Hunt. Towards the second half of this year, we saw the emergence of no-code operations as a defined role. More and more people are waking up to the value of what skilled no-code operators can unlock for organizations.

Closing out the year grateful for the opportunity to support amazing things the No-Code community wants to build. Thanks for everything and see you in 2021!

Techy Polar