Andrew Ofstad

@dvdsgl Very cool! Love the idea of the story living beyond the bounds of the page. Where did you get the frame? I actually built something similar recently - you upload photos of your kids and they're "painted" in a different artistic style every day.

Made a storybook generator (uponatoken.com), now we create & read 4-5 stories every night. Sends stories to Kindle, and cover art to 🖼️. Try it!

Congrats to the Reducto team!

Really excited to launch this today!! This represents the second of two ways in which we're disrupting ourselves with AI. The first, which we launched in March, was about making Airtable the easiest way to deploy the leading LLMs into departmental data and workflows. The second, today's launch, is about using AI to *build* apps. AI app-building will radically tilt the "build custom app vs buy prebuilt solution" equation in favor of the former. Traditional enterprise software development is expensive and slow, but its even greater problem is the disconnect that results between the software developers building an app and the business stakeholders who need the app. The entire founding premise of Airtable and the no code category we pioneered is to enable the people closest to their own business context and requirements to build the apps they need, and to easily change them as the requirements evolve. Especially in industries and functions undergoing a high rate of transformation (eg media, tech, retail, finserv), this approach is critical for companies to stand up the operations they need to adapt and execute on this new era. For instance, retailers spinning up digital commerce operations and the resultant omnichannel approach marketing. Or media companies building up their streaming operations and overall accelerating their pace and volume of content production, as well as marketing operations. The magic of applying AI to the app building problem is that modern LLMs already come pretrained with an understanding of these industry dynamics and the rough shape of the operations needed to execute in this era. And can be guided to combine that context with the more specific requirements of a business unit owner to instantly generate a useful, highly specific app. Best of all, when the app is generated as a no code app, all of its data, logic, and interface structure are made easily understood and directly manipulable by the customer. Unlike with AI-generated software code, which is understandable/inspectable/editable only by developers. That's why we're calling it Cobuilder. The best way to leverage LLMs to build applications for a business use case is to bring the AI generation and human user as close together as possible, with no code as the common language between them. My cofounder @aofstad will remember my decade-ago ruminations about a future in which you could “talk to Airtable to have it build your app.” A decade and 50M+ Airtable apps later… this is by far the biggest accelerant to deliver on that mission. To the entire community of team members, customers, and Airtable builders that have gotten us here, thank you. And I couldn't be more excited to join together on the next decade ahead! Try it here! We even allow you to generate an app pre-signup : ) airtable.com/platform/app-b…

Sure, LLMs are cool, but to actually extract business value from them, they need to live alongside your data and integrate deeply into your workflows. I'm psyched to finally share @airtable AI publicly - a suite of features designed precisely for this! x.com/airtable/statu…

@tjack Thanks for having me Todd, really enjoyed the conversation!

I could keep going, but I'll stop there for today. Huge thanks to Andrew for stopping by the show! 🙏 Hope everyone enjoys the episode — let me know your thoughts, and feel free to suggest other founders we should have on next!

🎙️ Back on the mic, guest hosting @firstround's podcast, In Depth! It was so fun to chat with @aofstad about @Airtable’s early days and their path to PMF. So many nuggets in here for founders, especially if you're building a horizontal product. review.firstround.com/podcast/episod…

So excited to share this product with the world! I’m proud of what our team built—in less than a year Built by some of the finest product engineers I’ve worked with. Always doing extra, always thinking about the user, always practicing & perfecting their craft

@tonsing @laurynisford Good point... need some Airtable kit!

@laurynisford Right! @aofstad?

Wow, all the goodness in the mail today! Happy Tuesday y’all ✌🏻

@AlexCartaz @jkwade @talweezy ha! don't remember that specifically but all adds up with my general recollection of that internship 😆

1/ Today, @airtable takes a giant leap forward towards its vision. techcrunch.com/2020/09/14/air…

Three BIG updates today that we've been heads down on for some time. Proud of the team and excited to see what our customers will build!

@erinfrey @howietl @emmettnicholas @USDResponse @airtable @raylene @jessunscripted We'd love to help! airtable.com/covid19

@howietl @emmettnicholas @aofstad - @USDResponse is using @airtable for their #covid19 tools, can you donate employee hours (eng, design, support)? They know the software best and we need quick, efficient execution. cc @raylene @jessunscripted

@tonsing @airtable @edavidpeterson Nice!! Thanks for spreading the word!

@airtable @edavidpeterson . @aofstad my brother in law is running this RE shop in Bozeman, got him hooked on @airtable now rapidly spreading throughout his office. Your making MT proud! kw.com/kw/agent/mitch…

“Real estate professionals are rethinking decades-old industry practices ... they are transforming #CRE operations from the ground up.” —@edavidpeterson Read about how Airtable is democratizing software for commercial real estate: globest.com/2018/08/20/the…

This --> a big deal. Just a few years ago, we had to kick down doors for testing at top-tier institutions. Very proud to be launching this tonight. blog.color.com/from-the-human…

Did @airtable pay more, or less, for this placement behind construction?

Introducing: our new homepage! 🎊 airtable.com/home

.@Airtable co-founder and CEO @howietl on embracing unintended customers, eschewing excess, and building a “neural net” for advice. amzn.to/2DH7pxz

Maybe you’ve seen some “Best of 2017” lists... but have you seen a list of the best lists of 2017? 🤔 airtable.com/universe/expvv…

@mathowie @briansholis @ftrain @richziade @airtable You can check out some case studies here: blog.airtable.com. This one may be relevant: blog.airtable.com/results-optimi…. You can also explore airtable.com/universe for user-published bases. Overview video: vimeo.com/165624533. Lastly, hit me up if you want a walkthrough!

@teague Thanks! Feel free to send them over - (my firstname)@airtable.com

Just a *Giant 300+ list of UX books* designerhangout.co/books Did we miss a book? Let us know :) Thank you @airtable 🙌