Please check out the latest post today from Cloud Community Manager (@AndrewB). This latest post provides plenty more details on the upcoming migration to the Discourse platform.
Some important details covered in the new post include:
Key Dates
Wednesday, July 16th: All Cloud communities (including AppSheet) will become read-only to enable migration of all content and user profiles to Discourse.
Important: During this time, if you encounter any serious product health issues, please contact support directly at: https://support.google.com/appsheet/gethelp
Tuesday, July 22nd: The new Cloud communities will go live! All AppSheet community members will receive an email with a direct link to log in.
Details
Site name rename: AppSheetâs parent community, the âGoogle Cloud Communityâ will be called the âGoogle Developer Program forumsâ with dedicated communities for Cloud, Workspace Developer, AppSheet, and Looker.
The AppSheet community shortlink, âcommunity.appsheet.comâ, will continue working as before. It is being updated to point to the new AppSheet community link when it goes live on the 22nd.
As stated before, all old links (including bookmarks) will redirect automatically.- New âGoogle Developer Programâ profile: Please see Andrewâs post with details on the new, unified login system powered by the Google Developer Program.
See further Details including a mini FAQ, in Andrewâs original post and feel free to post any questions directly to it or to this thread.
I suspect this will be the final nail in the communityâs coffin. AI has already decimated participation, and requiring a Google developer account for a no-code tool is likely to be too intimidating for many of those would-be no-code citizen developers who are looking for the level of help the community has historically provided.
Would you mind to share your findings? Iâve been looking for the past year, but so far havenât found anything as easy to build (yes, Retool is really hard to learn) and affordable.
I havenât worked with any of the competitors in depth and canât provide any specific guidance. What I saw, though, were vibrant communities and visible and responsive development efforts. They all had the excitement around them AppSheet did before Google. The strength AppSheet hasâfor meâis access to many advanced features even in the free version, which is where I do my tinkering and experimentation.
Have you tried AirTable? I havenât used it for an actual process, but having given its ai a very basic prompt, it built out a solution that could be the final product.
I wonder what other AppSheet users think of AirTable.
Their pricing is more expensive though, you also pay for the number of rows you can have on a table, not just number of users.