
BuiltOnAir
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S1 Ep 8Alex Wolfe, Airtable Super-user
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.Sign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter! https://builtonair.com. View the video demo from this episode | XXXXXXXBuiltOnAir 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.
S1 Ep 7Alex Hillman, Educator and Serial Entrepreneur
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.Sign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter! https://builtonair.com. View the video demo from this episode here.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.
S1 Ep 6Chinara James, Developer from Trinidad and Tobago
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/Sign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter! https://builtonair.com. View the video demo from this episode | https://youtu.be/reDBxb1swH4BuiltOnAir 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.
S1 Ep 5Sarah Henry, Research and Design Strategist
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-leandesignReach Sarah at | http://www.sarahbhenry.com/Sign up for the BuiltOnAir newsletter! https://builtonair.com. View the video demo from this episode | https://youtu.be/yhiqX0efOHU BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. Visit https://openside.com for products and services that will take your Airtable to the next level.
S1 Ep 4Sydney Thomas, Venture Capital Expert
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 Sydney Thomas, Investment Associate & Head of Operations at Precursor Ventures, an investment firm based in San Francisco, CA.Sydney describes how and why she chose Airtable as the must-have system for Precursor’s tiny but mighty team of two. She gives us a tour of the base she built to manage their portfolio. Her template for this has become quite popular on Airtable Universe. | http://bit.ly/airtableu_sydneythomasSydney also shows us a base compiling a list of black women in the venture capital community, which she’s shared with the world on Medium. | http://bit.ly/blackwomeninvcYou can reach Sydney on Twitter at @sydneypaige10 and her on website, https://sydneypaigethomas.com/Check out more Airtable goodness | https://builtonair.com. Find the accompanying video for this episode here | https://youtu.be/PRefItolVOMBuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside, a premium provider of products and services supporting Airtable customers. | https://openside.com
S1 Ep 3Gareth Pronovost, Owner of GAP Consulting
Welcome to another episode of 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’s guest is Gareth Pronovost, founder and owner of GAP Consulting. Gareth is a financial analyst turned Airtable consultant based just outside of Denver, CO. He helps businesses optimize their Airtable setup to become organized and automated. Gareth discusses his path into this area of expertise and walks us through GAP Consulting’s Airtable-powered CRM he uses to manage his business.You can reach Gareth via GAP Consulting’s website, and also check out his Airtable Training YouTube channel.Check out more Airtable goodness at builtonair.com. Find the accompanying video to Gareth’s Airtable demo here.BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside, a premium provider of products and services supporting Airtable customers. // https://openside.com
S1 Ep 2Ryan Jaccard, Systems Designer
Welcome to another episode of 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’s guest is Ryan Jaccard, a freelancer who specializes in systems design using Airtable and Zapier. We talk with Ryan about his recent client work, and he gives us a demo of one of his personal Airtable projects, a base that runs an Academy Awards betting pool for increased Oscar night entertainment.You can reach Ryan via UpWork and LinkedIn.Check out more Airtable goodness at builtonair.com. Find the accompanying video to Ryan’s Airtable demo here.BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside, a premium provider of products and services supporting Airtable customers. // openside.com
S1 Ep 1Dan Fellars, Founder of Openside
Welcome to the first episode of 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.Our first guest is Dan Fellars, founder of Openside, a premium provide of products and services supporting Airtable customers. Openside is also the founding sponsor for BuiltOnAir. Dan talks about the history of Openside and we take a peek at the Airtable Universe. Check out more Airtable goodness at builtonair.com. You can find the accompanying video to Dan’s Airtable Universe demo here.BuiltOnAir is sponsored by Openside. // openside.com