"Today we're laying off a large part of the Airtable team "

toomuchtodo

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49168844 Airtable hides a recap in plain sight - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173507 - August 2026 (0 comments) Bending Spoons buying Airtable for $2.2B - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49168838 - August 2026 (4 comments) Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166182 - August 2026 (118 comments)

ferrouswheel

Bending Spoons doing Bending Spoon things, next get ready for the 400% price hike and then they will completely fuck the product. Edit: I think Federico Simionato is particularly bad at product design.

kjs3

Something somthing "AI won't replace people, but people who use AI will replace people who don't".

MiroslavPokorny

This is why the west is dying. Instead of creating value, many are simply trying to cut. Nothing grows by cutting, you actually have less. This is why costs of chewing gum to housing is going uo, soo many parasites like this and so little who create new value.

gaiagraphia

Really enjoyed using Airtable over the years. It helped kickstart loooooads of cool projects. Shame that they never really did anything with their billions in funding. Interfaces were underwhelming, and I would've been embarrassed to release Omni to the public quite frankly. The writing's been on the wall for a while. I practically rebuilt and improved it for myself using Claude and won't be looking back.

coffee

Get used to it, this is the direction of the industry in the age of AI and Bending Spoons is just ahead of the curve.

doppp

"Bending Spoons is not private equity." Proceeds to do private equity things.