1) Being able to link tables in different bases https://community.airtable.com/t/link-to-other-base/107/112
2) Being able to create linked records from form view
1) Foreign keys to users (for e.g. "assigned to", "team members")
2) Better programmability - right now, anything moderately complex requires a bunch of intermediate column (that then have to be hidden from all views). Objective spreadsheets (MIT SAIL) seems like something to aim for.
3) Programmatic (API) access to row history - at least read, for reports
-- [1] http://oppsdaily.com/ [2] https://nugget.one/daily
https://mobile.twitter.com/patrickc/status/51568968982347366...
http://www.alphasheets.com/ is still mostly in stealth (as far as I can tell) but they let you mix and match SQL, Python, R, and Excel formulae in a spreadsheet.
Airtable seems pretty polished (https://airtable.com/).
Both of these are definitely spreadsheets, though. Not sure if you're looking for something more specialized for a certain vertical or problem domain.
We think Airtable is to spreadsheets/Access/Filemaker what Slack is to email (and fwiw, Slack itself uses Airtable http://bit.ly/2m58l4U ).
Specifically, our product offers the following (which to my knowledge Ragic/Fieldbook do not): x IMO a much more intuitive design x Native Android, iPhone, & iPad apps, as well as an electron desktop app ( airtable.com/downloads ) x Ability to create multiple views on the same table, each of which preserves its own filter/sort/visibility settings Multiple view types, including grid, grouped records, calendar, kanban, public forms, and gallery: http://bit.ly/2ky3WLB . x Inline collaboration i.e. @mentions in text fields, record-level comments x Many more useful field types x Visual revision history and snapshots x More integrations, such as with Zapier (see Zapier's writeups http://bit.ly/2lfGr79 http://bit.ly/2l3dZqG ), Slack, native calendars via an iCal feed, and Dropbox/Box/Gdrive/Evernote. x Greater capacity and smoother performance. x Full realtime sync for all changes, including schema modifications. x Lots of little things, like the ability to perform date calculations relative to today (i.e. a filtered view or formula that shows all projects due within 7 days from today and is automatically updated as time goes by), private share-links and embeds to give people access to a read-only view of Airtable without making them sign up for an account, inline document previews (e.g. view a text-copyable inline version of a .DOCX file)
Over 30,000 organizations already use Airtable--this includes tech cos like Airbnb, Box, Wework, and Tesla; non-tech cos like Atlantic Records and Penguin Randomhouse; educational institutions like CMU, Rice, and Stanford. We're growing our team and continuously releasing new enhancements to improve the product experience for all users.
I suspect not because it looks like the founders are too young to have even used Notes - my guess is this is a clean reinvention.