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(Cofounder of Superblocks, an Airplane alternative)

Congrats to the Airplane team for joining forces with Airtable, both teams and products are stellar and know people on both sides.

Airplane has been a thought-leader in the code-first approach to internal tools and brought to market a compelling DevX around infinitely extensible internal tools – this inspired our custom components [0]

For any customers looking to make a switch, the Superblocks team is ready to help, you can email us directly at [e-mail] or use live chat on our website and our Technical Support Engineering team would be happy to lend a hand.

Superblocks has the same concepts as Airplane: workflows, scheduled jobs and views, though our views are achieved through drag-and-drop. Similar to Airplane we have an option to deploy a hybrid on-prem agent [1] to ensure your data never leaves your VPC, though our agent uses bring-your-own-key (BYOK) to sign application definitions. Customers never have to run stateful services on-prem, schedule downtime or handle painful upgrades.

Some of the things developers love about Superblocks beyond the DevX and agent architecture are control flow [2] and streaming [3] via Kafka, Kinesis, OpenAI and LLMs.

For developers who want to take full ownership of what they build, we have a vision around “export to code”, enabling you to build in Superblocks and run on your servers. It’s on our roadmap and something developers are excited about.

[0] https://www.superblocks.com/blog/introducing-custom-componen...

[1] https://www.superblocks.com/blog/superblocks-on-prem-agent

[2] https://www.superblocks.com/blog/introducing-control-blocks-...

[3] https://www.superblocks.com/blog/introducing-real-time-strea...