I want to be able to make some reports available online in read-only form. If it doesn’t come with a smartphone app, why even bother? I want to be able to access it online, so I don’t have to worry about servers and licenses and upgrades. I don’t mind paying a reasonable price for a useful product, and am happy to upgrade once we reach a certain level of usage, based on users or storage or particular premium features that are necessary for a larger team. I want to be able to experiment with the platform, get my team on it, do some usable tasks, figure out how it fits into our work flow. Sometimes I come back to a platform over and over again over a period of years hoping against hope that it’s improved to where I can actually use it. I try out new platforms, sometimes for a few minutes, sometimes for a few days, or weeks, or months. For some reason, even though it’s 15 years later, nobody else has been able to come up with anything similar.Įvery once in a while I go and look at what’s out there. But I still don’t have the whole package. I cobbled together a replacement with Google Docs and Sheets for some functionality, Filemaker for other functionality, WordPress for the rest of what we needed. Then DabbleDB was acqui-hired by Twitter and the database shut down. I then switched my entire company over to it and we all loved it with a passion. I switched over to it and discovered that it was not only powerful and flexible, but a joy to use. A fully relational database, fully online, with a fantastic pricing model.
I forked over the money for it back when it was only a few hundred dollars, and there’s a discount for upgrades - but the upgrades aren’t free.įifteen years ago, a product called DabbleDB came out. The desktop version for individual users is $540 dollars. The cloud version - and it’s not a real SaaS product, just the same server software, but running on an Amazon server - starts at $100 per month for five users, three apps and only 2 GB of storage. Unfortunately, both its pricing and its delivery is still stuck in the dark ages. It’s extremely powerful and flexible and has a fantastic scripting language that is a joy to use. Then it turned into a full relational database alternative to Microsoft Access. Whoa! Back when it started, it was just a flat file system. I have been using Filemaker now for … 30 years. ( Full pricing details here.) I’ll do a full review later but, right now, it looks like Notion has everything that I want, including all the mobile device support. Upgrading to unlimited users is $4 a month, and team plans that includ administrative tools and other features start at $8 per user per month. It supports PDF exports for things like invoices and contracts. The basic plan, which includes sharing with up to five collaborators, is free. 2021: Lately, I’ve been testing out a new online collaboration tool called Notion.
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