Coming July 22nd: Key info for the AppSheet community forum migration

Hello again!

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: AppSheet’s parent community, the “Google Cloud Community” will be called the “Google Developer Program forums” with dedicated communities for Cloud, Workspace Developer, AppSheet, and Looker.
  • URL: The parent community is moving to the official google.dev domain at https://discuss.google.dev and AppSheet’s direct community URL will be https://discuss.google.dev/c/appsheet. (Links are not live yet).
    Please note the following:
  • The AppSheet community shortlink, ‘community.appsheet.com’, 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 ‘Google Developer Program’ profile: Please see Andrew’s post with details on the new, unified login system powered by the Google Developer Program.

See further Details including a mini FAQ, in Andrew’s original post and feel free to post any questions directly to it or to this thread.

Cheers,

-Chris

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I suspect this will be the final nail in the community’s 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.

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Will community managers also be replaced by more engaging and proactive managers?

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I also have an off feeling…

We already felt so disconnected from the actual team building Appsheet.

There have been so few product enhancements recently that impact the end users experience positively…

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I spent some time exploring AppSheet’s competition yesterday. Google clearly isn’t trying.

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Would you mind to share your findings? I’ve been looking for the past year, but so far haven’t found anything as easy to build (yes, Retool is really hard to learn) and affordable.

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I would love to hear your findings too, well, only if you dont mind to do it :slightly_smiling_face:

@BlueTech @Minhku

I haven’t worked with any of the competitors in depth and can’t 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 has–for me–is access to many advanced features even in the free version, which is where I do my tinkering and experimentation.

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Have you tried AirTable? I haven’t 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.