Internet presence is something that now a days is a must have if you have a business, even if your business has nothing to do with online sales or producing content. Depending on your level of understanding of websites and coding, creating your own website can be a little difficult.

While there are great tools in the market like Squarespace, Wix, or Wordpress, it still requires some level of a learning curve. Things get more difficult if you are looking for more than a website, like a web application with users and features specific to your business.

One solution for this is to utilize a user friendly database called Airtable. Airtable is a relational database with features similar to professional databases like SQL, but with the feel and look of a spreadsheet. You can create some great automated workflows using Airtable and the learning curve is easier than coding your own scripts. Airtable brings a great opportunity for people who don’t know how to code and want to play around with databases and discover all the different automations you can create.

While Airtable brings some great value, the workflows you can create doesn’t provide you with a front-end user interface that can be customized to your business. If we could only get Airtable to talk to a website, then we could be into something. This is where Airvues fits into this puzzle.

I created Airvues in order to bridge the gap between individuals or small business who need a web application that is affordable and is easy to implement and maintain without the need to write a line of code. Airvues uses Airtable as its database and it lets you control what you display in your website right from your Airtable database. You can think of Airtable as your own website content manager for your website. You can basically turn a spreadsheet into a web application!

Airvues lets you choose from many different templates in order to create the type of website you are looking for. Airvues provides you with an Airtable database template that you can save to your own Airtable account. You then link this template with your website template in Airvues, and you are set. From here you can just start adding your website content into your Airtable database and your website will automatically update. 

One of the best parts of Airvues is that all your data is securely stored in your own Airtable account. Airvues does not keep or store your data, it only displays it in your website.

Setting up a website

Setting up a website with Airvues is easy. You first must have an Airtable account. Once you have your account, you can go to your Airvues portal and pick the template you would like to use. With just a click you can save the Airtable database template to your own Airtable account.

Once the template is saved in your Airtable account, you can create a new website in Airvues by linking your Airtable database. To link your Airtable database you need the base ID and the API key from Airtable. You can find this easily by following the instructions in Airvues. 

Finally, you just enter a site name and assign a subdomain and your website is hosted and ready to customize! To customize your site you can do it all within your Airtable database. Each Airtable database template comes with example data and instructions on what each field represents and how it will be showed in the website. The best part of using Airtable, is that they have a great web app interface as well as a mobile app, so adding content to your site on the go is very easy.

Final Words

If you are looking for an alternative to hiring a web developer or spending the time to learn to code, you can get started with Airvues for free and get a web app up and running within minutes. At the moment Airvues has 6 templates to choose from, but my vision is to create a lot more very soon. The goal is to have a template that will fit any business or project type.

I hope you find this interesting and are willing to check out Airvues.

Enrique Torreblanca 2020-12-30

Being able to manage users in Airtable and allowing them to see a website instead of just an Airtable spreadsheet is very cool!

Enrique Torreblanca 2020-12-30

Airtable is great and now with Airvues I'll be able to create my own websites and web apps utilizing an interface I'm already familiar with in Airtable!