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On today’s episode, we speak with Jason Humphrey, software developer and career coach in Boston, Massachusetts. Jason is the founder of Coding Career Fastlane, an online community focused on improving developers’ skill sets by offering personalized feedback and creative approaches to handling a job search.

In addition to Coding Career Fastlane, Jason works full time as a Principal Software Engineer, runs his own YouTube Channel, and is extremely active on LinkedIn. He uses Airtable for everything from planning content for YouTube and LinkedIn posts, to a tool for his coaching business.

Jason shares two bases with us today, both of which are part Coding Career Fastlane’s 10-Day Job Hunt Challenge. The base is a Job Hunt Tracker, which features a table of positions the user is interested in, as well as tables to track resumes, interview questions, and message templates. Jason demonstrates how he has impressively programmed the web clipper block to seamlessly add job positions, companies, and contacts found on LinkedIn to this base.

The second base is an overview of the 10-Day Job Hunt Challenge. This base offers  directions for each day of the challenge, and includes places for the user to track things like important keywords being used in their industry of choice. Together, these bases leave no stone unturned, truly covering every step of the job hunting process. Check out the show notes for links to Jason’s bases on the Airtable Universe, his LinkedIn Profile and more about Coding Career Fastlane.

Coding Career Fastlane

Coding Career Fastlane's 10-Day Job Hunt Challenge

Jason’s Universe Page

Jason’s LinkedIn

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On today’s episode, we travel virtually to Phoenix, Arizona to speak with Jérémy Chevallier: designer, builder, and marketer. From founding and running several businesses to dabbling in the creative arts, Jérémy is truly a jack-of-all-trades. Today he takes us through his entrepreneurial journey, and how Airtable helped him run his entire business.

Jérémy studied at Arizona State University with a combined major of Business Marketing and Graphic Design. After graduating and working for different marketing agencies, he decided to start his own. This allowed him to learn even more about the marketing world, and greatly contributed to his ability to build creative solutions that not only look great, but function in a business environment.

Jérémy discovered Airtable through his friend and co-founder, Matt. Together they ran their business, PubLoft, almost entirely through Airtable. In today’s screen share portion, Jérémy shows us the base that he credits with helping PubLoft get to $24,000 a month in revenue in just seven months.

Today, Jérémy is working on projects such as Crash.Co, a job-hunting site with a personalized twist, and GigLoft, which teaches freelancers how to run their own business. Check out the show notes for links to learn more about Jérémy, and see his base on the Airtable Universe.

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Jeremy's Website

Build & run an entire agency - Universe

GigLoft

Crash.Co

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Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each episode, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.

In this episode, Dan Fellars returns to give us a deep-dive into some newer products offered by his company, Openside. Openside not only sponsors BuiltOnAir.com, which of course hosts this very podcast, but offers Airtable consulting services as well. To help their clients step up their Airtable game, Openside created a suite of products called On2Air which takes the guesswork out of automating many Airtable tasks. Tried-and-true fan favorites like On2Air Actions and On2Air Forms are now joined by a host of other premium extensions including On2Air Schemas. Dan showcases the power of Schemas, which allows users to track every bit of metadata associated with a particular base over time, and gives us a run down of how this new extension could save you a headache or two in the future.

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Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each episode, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.

In today’s episode, we speak with Andy Wingrave: Automation and Airtable enthusiast. Andy’s experience comes with over ten years of digital solutions and problem-solving; and apps like Airtable and Zapier have largely informed his work. He is a certified Zapier Expert and has even worked with Airtable themselves to develop a use case for the web clipper block, which he displays in one of the many bases he’s published to the Airtable Universe.

Andy is often found on the Airtable Forums helping other users to develop their bases and solve problems. Like many Airtable users, he considers it a fun hobby to design base templates for others to use. He also runs a blog site - Saastronomical, where he’s published articles and how-tos on automations.

Andy shares a few projects with us today, and it’s immediately evident how much care he puts into the organization of his workspaces and bases within. One project of note is his Music Finder Base, which shows how a back-end of an app such as Spotify might look if housed within Airtable. A table of [Events] lists possible interactions one might have with an app, such as a song being played, while a table of [Event Properties] shows what we might want to know about that event, such as the Artist or the Plan the user playing the song belonged to.

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Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each episode, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.

In this episode, we chat with Veronica Picciafuoco of 8020.inc, an agency that helps businesses move faster without code. We talk about how no-code app solutions like Airtable can help just about anybody achieve their goals. In Veronica’s experience, there’s no such thing as one-app-fits-all, and oftentimes half the battle is nailing down exactly how many bells and whistles a solution really needs. Indeed, part of Veronica's job is to help her clients decide whether their ideal solution is a “car” when a “bike” will meet all the client’s needs at a fraction of the cost. Speaking of which, the base Veronica shares with us was made to help a friend keep track of her horse training business. Looking for a simple, mobile-friendly way to log each horse’s daily exercise to better plan for the horse’s activity level the next day, Veronica put together a flexible little Airtable base which does just the trick.

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Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each episode, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.

In this episode, we’re joined by Nicole Dyer, a professional genealogist, lecturer, and creator of FamilyLocket.com and the Research Like a Pro Genealogy Podcast. Nicole explains the ins and outs of genealogy research, and how she’s able to help people find out more about themselves and their family’s history. We get insight into the meticulous research she conducts, and how putting together the pieces of the past can quickly result in over a thousand data points. So, to ease the data collection process, Nicole uses Airtable to organize her extensive research. We get a rundown of a couple bases she uses to collect the data, and even how she begins to draw her conclusions. Nicole tells us all about the collaborative nature of the genealogy field, so it comes as no surprise that she’s added templates of her research log bases to the Airtable Universe.

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Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each episode, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.

In today’s episode, we speak with James Jackson. James describes himself as a product designer with really excellent taste, and we have to agree. His website is full of colorful, eye-catching designs, peppered with blog-style posts on his life and his work in the technology industry.

In 2013, James was a content writer reporting on arts and culture in North Carolina. He befriended an engineer, and so began his foray into “building things” with tech. He changed roles from a content writer to a junior developer, and after a few years, packed up and moved to the big city: New York. After taking a couple of classes, he fell in love with design.

Adding up all of his talents yields a recipe for success: James brings together content, design and development to solve problems. He has always been a proponent for finding the right tool for the job, and Airtable checked all of the boxes.

The project James demos for us today is his Weekly Summary Base. The power of this base lies in its simplicity: team members have access to a form that is filled out on a weekly basis, and managers have access to see the responses. With only two tables, James has set up an easy and compelling way for managers to see what’s going on within the projects they manage.

Check out the show notes for links to see James’s designs and his website, which includes a write-up on his Weekly Summary project, complete with screenshots and explanations.

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James’s Website

James's Designs (Dribbble)

Airtable Weekly Summary for Managers | James Darin

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Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each episode, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.

In today’s episode, we speak with Jon Letts: a man with a passion for organization and communication. Jon spent his college years focused on and sometimes giving presentations on the “Productivity Triangle”: Calendar, Email, and Task Lists. It was his belief that if these three things were kept in sync and organized, that nothing would go unnoticed. After discovering Airtable, he realized that there was something missing from the Productivity Triangle - People. Airtable allowed him to seamlessly add another layer to his life-system by linking each email, task, or calendar event to a person. In his words, Airtable and Zapier changed his life - a sentiment to which I’m sure many listeners will agree.

Jon calls his system and subsequent Airtable Base, “Contuity” - a name representative of his passion about creating and understanding connection. As it covers areas of his life such as relationships and thoughts, Jon equates it to a Personal CRM. When he adds a contact to his iPhone, they’re also added to his base. He uses a simple form to add what he calls “Jots”, turning the base into a Bullet Journal of sorts. By using Airtable’s single and multi-select fields, he’s able to categorize each Jot into what he calls “spaces” of his life. All of this culminates into a color-coded chart showing what he spent time thinking about or doing over the last year. Jon shows us the chart and points out what stands out to him the most, such as how his “friendship” category shot way up after his recent move.

There are tons of cool bells and whistles to Jon’s base, which he has published to the Airtable Universe. Check out the show notes for a link!

Contuity - Universe

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Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each episode, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.

In today’s episode, we speak with Hannah Clark: Marketing and Communications Manager, Clothing Swap Runner, and Airtable aficionado. Hannah hails from the Twin Cities in Minnesota, where she uses Airtable to help not just her work life, but her home life as well.

Hannah discovered Airtable about nine months ago, and in those nine months has managed to amass an impressive amount of knowledge about the product, and even was selected as a winner of Airtable’s recent Block Ideation contest. Like many users, she started out by modifying one of Airtable’s templates, the Social Media Content Calendar, to match her needs. After getting a bit more comfortable, she started building her own bases from scratch.

She has since published three bases to the Airtable Universe, with uses ranging from fun to practical. She shows us these three bases today: Her Personal Budget and Debt Tracker, Movie & TV Log, and Home Improvement Database. Most striking in these bases is Hannah’s creative use of the gallery view. For many of her bases, she has created beautiful cover images using the app Canva, and used these to quickly identify each record. For example, each summary record in her Personal Budget and Debt Tracker has a pretty cover image of the month and year.

She also shows us a bit of the base she uses to run her clothing drives: Big Fat Super Swap and Inbetweenie Super Swap, which has a mission of providing clothing options for plus-size people of all genders. Last year, they were able to distribute and hand-deliver over 34 winter coats, an important staple of winters in Minnesota. Bravo, Hannah!

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Hannah Clark

Hannah’s Clothing Drive

Hannah’s Published Universe Bases:

Personal Budget Tracker Monthly

Movies & TV Log and Rating

Home Project Tracker

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Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each episode, we talk with someone active in the Airtable community to discuss their experiences and showcase an interesting way they’ve used Airtable in their work.

In this episode, we’re joined by Justin Barrett, who tells us the interesting career path he took from animator to actor to sports team community relations director. In addition to all his work, Justin is also an Airtable Community Leader who spends much of his free time helping people better understand the program in the community forums. A testament to his unique approach to problem solving, Justin shows us a task tracking base with formulas, filtered views, and categorization all aimed at showing him only what he needs to see at any given time. Far and above the ordinary task tracker, its robust setup accounts for repeating tasks, and organizes everything to help the user build good daily habits through repetition, encouraging the tackling tasks in a particular, consistent order.

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