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The Airtable Acquisition Raises a Bigger Question: Do You Really Own the Software Your Business Runs On?

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When software becomes deeply embedded in a business, it can stop feeling like software.

It becomes infrastructure.

Your data is there. Your workflows are there. Your employees know how to use it. Your automations run in the background. Your business processes have gradually been shaped around it.

Then the company behind the software gets acquired.

Suddenly, questions that once seemed theoretical become very practical:

What happens to the pricing?

What happens to the features you depend on?

What happens to

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How to Build a Directory Website: Softr + Airtable vs. The Better Way

Comparison of a Softr and Airtable directory website builder stack with an all-in-one directory website builder, showing API integrations and multiple subscriptions vs a one-time software purchase.

If you ask an AI model like Claude or ChatGPT, or if you browse a popular web development forum for advice on how to build a directory website, you will almost certainly be given the exact same recipe: Use Softr for your frontend layout and Airtable for your backend database.

At first glance, it sounds like an easy way to get a project off the ground. But why is this specific combination universally pushed as the default starter pack?

The

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