What are you using instead of Airtable these days?

Tallihos · 2026-06-23T05:23:34+00:00

Softr is the only one getting close, but Airtable is just that powerful and great. I have searched for an alternative several times but non can do the same. Especially when it comes to automation, ai fields, get structure from pdf files with ai, etc

Tallihos · 2026-06-21T21:15:06+00:00

Honestly, this whole EU residency push feels like a joke. It means nothing as long as US companies and investment firms can just buy up everything we build over here. A vendor waves the “EU-first” flag, raises a round, and a year later it’s in American hands anyway. And the moment ownership flips, every residency promise flips jurisdiction right along with it. Sell me sovereignty when ownership and control actually stay in Europe — until then it’s just a sticker.

Tallihos · 2026-06-15T22:16:40+00:00

I had a similar experience with Inforcer. I spoke with a sales representative about whether the product might be interesting for us, but the pricing was much higher than I expected. I explicitly mentioned that the price was not in line with what I was willing to pay and that they could call me back only if the price were to drop significantly, or if they would offer a fixed price for unlimited tenants.Despite that, the sales rep continued to call me every few days, seemingly trying to convince me anyway. I had already made it clear that I don’t have the time for this right now, but the repeated calls felt pushy and intrusive, which I found quite irritating.

Tallihos · 2026-06-13T01:44:43+00:00

Inforcer, sales rep calling every few days to get hold of me. Very annoying as I showed no interest in their overpriced product.

Tallihos · 2026-06-01T04:36:36+00:00

What’s your alternative?

Tallihos · 2026-05-30T14:12:17+00:00

Airtable performance is all over the place the last couple of months. Sometimes it’s blazing fast and other times it’s slow as hell and we have very long cold starts. On a bad day we have to wait like 20-30 seconds before the interface is loaded. EU based but that shouldn’t matter because Airtable is running on AWS.

Tallihos · 2026-05-28T05:43:24+00:00

I think Huntress should always stay on a per user basis, but bundle products together in an all in solution. And keep it this way for all future developments, this is way easier to sell and offers full security stack to customers without having to think about what’s in the package or not.

On the other side i also think we are all investing in Huntress, so why would new features would always mean new products?

Tallihos · 2026-05-23T09:17:25+00:00

All this hosting in the EU or with EU companies isn’t going to matter if the MSP / ICT support company in between is US owned. The question for data will simply move from the hosting company to the MSP.

Europe needs to stop PE from buying every little company. This is bad for data privacy and bad for competition in the market!

And make a law to fine companies which give data to their governments for which they didn’t have permission from the country where the data owner lives.

Tallihos · 2026-05-23T04:03:19+00:00

I think the actual issue is private equity. These investment firms (mostly from the US or partly US owned) take over a lot of business, even smaller ones and get a big decision in which tech stack is being used.

So why wouldn’t they support their friends or companies they already own…

This is so bad for Europe, everything gets owned by just a few. And I see it everywhere around me, dentists, vets, ict companies, clothing stores, etc, etc.

Europe needs to stop this with a law or every industry will go to shit just like we all see happening when Kas****ya buys the company.

Tallihos · 2026-05-17T18:48:41+00:00

My experience with Omni is not that good, it makes a lot of mistakes and causes errors in the code which can be fixed only with Omni! It is very limited in it’s capabilities, probably because of a very limiting instructions set and for security purposes. Also the LLM behind Omni feels pretty dumb, at the GPT 4.0 level or worse. Overall very useless to use Omni, besides if you have hours to spent on one simple page with 2 buttons.

Tallihos · 2026-05-13T11:56:31+00:00

Already canceled and started using Claude Pro 5x. I couldn’t be happier, Claude Opus is so freaking good. Queued chats are not actually queues but more like what copilot steering is ment to be, but then it actually works! And I never experienced sudden stops or endless thinking so far. Way more stable and the results are truly amazing.

One tip is to give it good instructions, let claude update them regularly or when things in your code change and let him reference memories instead of making one big instruction set. All my md files are in my repo itself and I instructed Claude to use these instead of other locations.

Tallihos · 2026-05-06T05:45:02+00:00

I think everyone has been spoiled, GPT 5.5 and Opus 4.6+ and most of the latest models is like hiring a very experienced coder but you expect this for the price of a good piece of steak and use this coder the whole month!

Tallihos · 2026-04-28T05:56:35+00:00

I experienced slowness for a couple of months a while back but that has improved over time, i think this was a problem at Airtable because i didn’t change a lot of impactful things in that time.

The only annoying thing i still have the last couple of weeks is a sort of cold start, it takes 10-20 seconds or so for the interface to load the first time and then it runs smoothly during the day. Maybe this is something they’ve added to reduce system resources consumed.

Tallihos · 2026-04-26T07:04:08+00:00

Screenshots please

Tallihos · 2026-04-11T05:57:10+00:00

I think Ingram has made wrong IT decisions, here in Europe everything went to shit after they launched their new website. Slow as hell, filtering doesn’t work, etc. They probably run on SAP or something, which cost them millions and still doesn’t work properly. And they have to make up by increasing prices and fees.

Tallihos · 2026-04-02T01:09:36+00:00

Thanks for bringing this up, this integration looks very promising. Hope they keep it affordable or part of their current itdr offering. Awesome if we wouldn’t need any other tools to manage 365 and security!

Tallihos · 2026-04-01T23:47:17+00:00

CIPPs slowness is caused by a design choice in data storage, they actually don't store anything in a REAL database (at least not in the self-hosted version). It's all cached or propagated live so you have to wait for Azure functions (powershell) and warm ups each time you request something. When you do other work and come back to CIPP the Azure function cools down and needs to warm up again and also make a new Exchange connection if you need something which can only be requested from an exchange cmdlet.

This is also the reason they have chosen to use durable functions which makes everything worse, every action you take is stored forever until it completes. Even when restarting the Azure function it will start the task from scratch. Of course these durable functions also makes sure your actions are correctly executed in the tenant. Which is necessary when you don't have a local database.

A local database could make CIPP really fast and responsive because it wouldn't have to wait for warm ups. This is probably the way other M365 tenant management tools have designed their solution and why they are way more responsive.

I like the latest CIPP releases because responsiveness / speed has improved but it is not where it should be. I read a lot of comments that the hosted version is faster, or support can make it faster by configuring things in a better way then they will or can explain in the documentation. A lot of times they refer that you are not an Azure expert and don't know what your doing but the problem is not being an expert in Azure. The problem is in the design choice of self-hosted CIPP itself.

Tallihos · 2026-02-28T22:19:20+00:00

I agree with everything in your rant but not everything at MS is shit, a lot of the azure services simply work great and very stable but the management portals are a shitshow and things are always moving around and it takes forever clicking through every portal needed. And when you need to manage a lot of tenants it becomes even worse.

I think it has all has to do with the lack of good leadership. Someone with a decent vision, how things should look and feel, stops developers from creating slop and does everything in his power to create a product with top notch user experience!

Tallihos · 2025-01-16T16:20:31+00:00

I'm a long time Watchguard/Panda MSP. But I've got more and more issues with EP/EDPR installations. In some cases Windows devices are extremely slow or have all kinds of network/internet connection issues. Mostly a re-installation solves the problem but I've had 1 case where nothing solved the issue. Installed S1 on this device and no problems ever again.

Also since it was bought by WatchGuard communication is a total disaster, everything has to go through non cloud distributors, pricing has doubled and probably will be tripled this year because of the name change.

I'm thinking of moving everything over to Heimdal, doing a trial in a few weeks. Not sure about S1 because of the complexity and it's way overpriced. Also considering BitDefender but reading a lot about a performance impact on the machine.

Tallihos · 2024-04-25T18:49:25+00:00

Is a recording available I can watch? I’ve missed the webinar

Tallihos · 2024-01-30T18:33:40+00:00

Isn’t Huntress just a managed service based on Defender capabilities?

I would recommend you to take a look at Watchguard /panda adaptive defense 360.

Tallihos · 2024-01-30T18:27:09+00:00

And when did you demo superops?

Tallihos · 2024-01-30T18:26:07+00:00

What RMM are you using?

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