BuiltOnAir

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each week, 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.

Natasha Vorompiova is a “capacity architect” from Belgium and founder of SystemsRock. At SystemsRock, she helps her clients break through their “capacity ceiling” when they have reached the limits of their own homegrown systems. We talk about how she helps business navigate through growth and organizational bottlenecks by simplifying their tech stack, optimizing workflows, and focusing on metrics. This empowers her clients to make informed business decisions using data instead of just hunches.

Naturally, one of Natasha’s chosen tools to incorporate into workflows and automations is Airtable. The demo base she shows us is an example of a metrics dashboard for membership site owners, which can be appropriated for any subscription-based business. Her base allows a team to track and glean insights from their members’ activity, testimonials, feedback, and more.

Connect with Natasha and check out her work at systemsrock.com/connect

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BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Visit https://openside.com for products and services that will take your Airtable to the next level. Use promo code BUILTONAIR for a one-time $20 credit off of any purchase.

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each week, 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.

This episode, we welcome Sai Warang, a Shopify software developer living in Ottawa, Canada. Sai originally heard about Airtable from some of his fellow coworkers. The app piqued his curiosity as a possible solution for some of his ongoing, long-procrastinated personal projects – primarily, his girlfriend's request to find an app where they could easily log and track their household expenses. 

Sai walks us through three bases he built to organize life:

• Household Expenses Tracker

• Houseplant Watering Tracker

• Goodreads Database for Research Papers

View Sai’s creations on Airtable Universe 

Tweet Sai | @cyprusad

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BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Visit https://openside.com for products and services that will take your Airtable to the next level. Use promo code BUILTONAIR for a one-time $20 credit off of any purchase.

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each week, 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.

This episode we welcome Khe Hy from Los Angeles, California. Khe is creator of the blog and newsletter Rad Reads and contributing editor at Quartz. His current ventures in writing are a sharp left turn from his previous career on Wall Street. Tired of staring at spreadsheets all day, Khe decided to quit his job in finance to pursue his entrepreneurial itch. 

In the ensuing months, he began blogging about the hurdles he was facing, including his own self-doubt. Writing actually helped him find his calling: creating thoughtful content about facing uncertainty and living with intention. We discuss how Khe grows his audience, and how apps like Airtable help him manage RadReads.

Khe gives us a demo of his blog editorial calendar in Airtable, where he schedules posts and corrals all his ideas for new writing projects.

RadReads | https://radreads.co/

Find Khe on Instagram @radreadsco or Twitter @khemaridh

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Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each week, 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.

This episode, we welcome Jason Montoya from Atlanta, Georgia. Jason is a consultant, freelancer, and self-described “small business firefighter”. He works with companies as a virtual Chief Growth Officer to help them streamline their internal processes, improve their marketing, and increase their revenue. 

Jason is also a huge proponent of the freelance lifestyle, and he has written extensively on the subject in his blog and in his book, Path of the Freelancer: An Actionable Guide to Flourishing In Freelancing. http://bit.ly/pathofthefreelancer

Jason uses Airtable as hub for his own client and project management. He gives us a demo of his “Freelancing Dashboard” base, which allows him to approach each workday with intention by easily tracking his projects, hours, and finances. He also shows us how he uses Airtable to collaboratively manage projects and tasks across an entire team of freelancers.

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BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Visit https://openside.com for products and services that will take your Airtable to the next level. Use promo code BUILTONAIR for a one-time $20 credit off of any purchase.

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each week, 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.

Alex Bass is founder + CEO of CyberBytes and host of Analysis Paralysis, a podcast focused on business process design. 

In this episode of BuiltOnAir and on his own show as well, Alex discusses what it’s like to be a business owner in this rapidly evolving, semi-enigmatic niche of workflow design. Alex has pivoted a lot throughout his journey in the tech world, and he does a great job of explaining his steps and thought process along the way.

Alex’s company CyberBytes specializes in working with Copper CRM for G.Suite. They often augment Copper’s functionality by building automations and integrating other software, like Airtable. Alex describes how he often uses Airtable as a staging area to store and manipulate raw data as it flows from one app to the next. In the screen share demo, we take a look at a simplified example of an Airtable base created for a client to seamlessly clean and format responses from a website contact form before pushing them to Copper.

Check out Alex’s podcast, Analysis Paralysis |

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BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Visit https://openside.com for products and services that will take your Airtable to the next level. Use promo code BUILTONAIR for a one-time $20 credit off of any purchase.

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each week, 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.

This episode, we welcome Melissa Hanson from New York City. Melissa is Director of Marketing and Research at a commercial real estate company by day and a self-proclaimed “film nerd” by night. She is co-founder of the movie website Reel News Daily, which features interviews, film reviews, and other industry tidbits.

Melissa has combined her love for film with her knowledge of Airtable to create an awesome selection of TV and movie related bases on Airtable Universe. Many of these are the results of her own cataloging and research, including the one she demos for us today – a base detailing the actor crossovers between the Marvel and DC Comics film universes.

Check out Melissa’s work on Airtable Universe

Reel News Daily | http://reelnewsdaily.com/

Or tweet her @dialmformelissa

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BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Visit https://openside.com for products and services that will take your Airtable to the next level. Use promo code BUILTONAIR for a one-time $20 credit off of any purchase.

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each week, 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 welcome Alex Wolfe, an all-around Airtable enthusiast from Irvine, California. Alex has managed to find uses for Airtable in almost every facet of his life, from tracking field notes and project details during his job as an environmental noise analyst, to organizing his hobbies and personal to-do list.

Alex often combines his love for Airtable and video games in the sample bases he publishes on Airtable Universe. The one he demos in this episode is a recap of the first-ever Kinda Funny Games Showcase, an event that was live-streamed on Twitch in December 2018 and highlighted over sixty new game releases. Alex used Airtable to assemble all the games featured in the show into an aesthetically pleasing catalog (complete with YouTube video timestamps!).

View the Alex’s Kinda Funny Games Showcase base and a recording of the show at http://bit.ly/alexwolf-kfgshowcase or reach out to Alex on Twitter @alxwlfe.

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Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each week, 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.

This episode features Alex Hillman, an educator and serial entrepreneur who wears many hats. He discusses two of his ventures: Indy Hall (his coworking space in Philadelphia) and Stacking the Bricks, where Alex and Amy Hoy create content and courses that enable developers and creatives to start their own successful businesses.

Airtable is highlighted in STB’s recent article, “2019 Tech Stack for Bootstappers”.

We talk about Alex and Amy’s philosophy for choosing apps (and also why, as a tech-oriented community, they have avoided talking about their tools of choice until recently).

Alex shows us the Airtable CRM he built that enables STB to keep track of the qualitative and quantitative measures of their students’ successes, both large and small.

Find more of Alex’s work at https://stackingthebricks.com or stalk him on Twitter @alexhillman.

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BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Visit https://openside.com for products and services that will take your Airtable to the next level. Use promo code BUILTONAIR for a one-time $20 credit off of any purchase.

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each week, 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.

This episode features our first international guest – Chinara James, a web developer and Wordpress specialist from Trinidad and Tobago.

We talk about what it’s like to teach yourself how to code when you’re on a tiny island in the Caribbean where the developer community is not as vast it is in the United States.

Chinara gets into the nitty gritty of her half-work, half-play side project she’s using as motivation to better learn Node.js and delve into Airtable’s API documentation. She built an Airtable base for her advertising agency to track talent data, and she is creating a web portal that will allow actors and singers to easily update and view their information on file.

Chinara has some great posts on her exploration of the Airtable API on her blog at https://chinarajames.com/home/
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BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Visit https://openside.com for products and services that will take your Airtable to the next level. Use promo code BUILTONAIR for a one-time $20 credit off of any purchase.

Welcome to BuiltOnAir, a podcast and video series about all things Airtable. Each week, 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.

This week on the show, we talk to Sarah Henry, a freelance user researcher, designer, and strategist based in Brooklyn, NY. 

Sarah talks to us about her passion for social-driven projects and her unique ability to create spaces where people can having meaningful social interactions about data.

Airtable is one of the tools she uses to organize and extract inferences from her data sets. She shares one of her first Airtable projects, a base called ‘Lean Design Research for Emotional Data’, which demonstrates how user researchers can champion data-informed design practice while also maintaining the humanity of user feedback.

See this base on the Airtable Universe |  https://bit.ly/airtable-leandesign

Reach Sarah at | http://www.sarahbhenry.com/

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BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Visit https://openside.com for products and services that will take your Airtable to the next level.