Yes but no one gets fired for picking Google or Microsoft.
All you really need is a little background about the company running the thing. That would be enough for someone like myself to cover my ass for picking your tool.
What you really want to see is a reputable VC (preferably from Sand Hill Road) backing the company. That might be coming in the future, but for now we are doing well without VCs.
Gosh, this is a very bad sign of arguing wiht potentail customers who simply give good advice on telling a little about who is behind the company (like address, etc). Why do you want to hide such info?
I am a founder myself and I haven't put founders' info on our website for a simple reason... one of the cofounders has not yet quit his day job and he doesn't want his employers to know he is moonlighting.
> not many that can build traditional forms for your own database + schema
That's not true in my experience. Retool has fantastic support for connecting directly to databases, including generating forms from schemas, no-code queries, and support for multiple RDBMS.
It looks like Budibase[1] also supports it.
My company has been looking for an admin system that we can build in dev and then deploy in our API repo so that any API deployment has an admin system deployed with it (that uses the same environment variables to connect to the database). This would help us a lot with our multi-tenant setup.
It seems like your product has some qualities that would help us because of the self-hosting, headless aspects. You might find a niche of people like me.
I see two features that Airforms has that Retool doesn't:
1. Airforms can be self-hosted
2. Airforms creates a database diagram
Honestly I'm not sure #2 is useful. I've been working heavily with database for 20 years and have never found one to be useful. Laypeople might feel differently, and it doesn't hurt to have it, of course.
Beyond that, Retool has all the features that Airforms has and a lot more. Retool is genuinely amazing and a mature product. I've used it extensively.
That said, Retool is expensive and not great for non-coders. If non-coders can really use Airforms effectively, then that's a big differentiator. The price is too, of course.
Does Retool have a query builder? Does it support query parameters? If not how do you find the record you want to update? Does it support displaying fields from lookup tables (i.e., tables joined via foreign key)? How do you pick a record from a foreign table (when you want to update the foreign key itself)?
Yes. It may not be exactly like the one in Airforms. You can do CRUD operations/mappings without writing any SQL, or you can drop into SQL (with autocomplete and a schema browser) if you need more complexity.
> Does it support query parameters?
Yes.
> Does it support displaying fields from lookup tables (i.e., tables joined via foreign key)?
Yes.
> How do you pick a record from a foreign table (when you want to update the foreign key itself)?
There are multiple ways to do it. The easiest way is to run a query to get the IDs (and labels) from the table you're joining and then add that to some kind of input (list, table, etc.)
Like I said in a previous comment, a lot of this stuff requires knowing how to code or at least some technical understanding of databases, which might be a differentiator.
This is for access control. If your company uses Active Directory then when when you remove an employee from your Active Directory his access will be automatically removed.
If your company does not use Active Directory you can create a Microsoft account using your existing email (even gmail works). Or you can create a new @outlook.com account.
Offer a flat rate per user. At $5 dollars per month you are not losing money. Don't overprovision your backend. You can increase it to $6/7 per seat depending on what users are willing to pay.
Good feedback! In the beginning we expect early adopters will be technology enthusiasts, so the marketing text is oriented towards them. Later, as the mainstream begins to adopt the product we plan to adjust the text accordingly.
To handle errors Airforms supports extensive validation options.
Regarding show/hide based on field value -- this is accomplished via "rules", where you build conditions graphically. This is not enabled in the current build, but is coming in November.
Common types of form fields such as radio, checkbox, textbox, textarea, combobox, date and so on are supported.
Please contact us via the email address at the bottom of the web site if you would like to discuss your specific scenarios.
Those aren't everything apps, those are everything platforms. You can barely do anything (other than browsing the web) with Windows alone, with no apps installed.
