Spreadsheet vs Database: When to Move Your Data
A spreadsheet isn't a bad database. It's not a database at all. Here are the six signals that yours has quietly become one — and what each costs you if you ignore it.
Step-by-step walkthroughs and plain explanations of the concepts behind internal tools.
A spreadsheet isn't a bad database. It's not a database at all. Here are the six signals that yours has quietly become one — and what each costs you if you ignore it.
Make meters credits — one per module action — and its pricing page shows annual rates by default, so Core is $10.59 monthly, not the $9 you first see. Two things to settle before you budget.
Google Forms is free with any Google account and does not cap responses — which makes most paid form tools a purchase of presentation rather than capability. Three limits decide whether it fits.
Glide is the easiest no-code app builder to get started with. The thing to understand before committing is that Glide Classic and GlideOS are now separate products with separate pricing and no migration path.
Adalo actually publishes native apps to the App Store and Google Play, which most no-code tools cannot. The ceilings to understand first are records, user counts and the complete absence of code export.
Typeform makes the best-looking forms in the category and charges accordingly. The limit that catches people is that responses are shared across all your forms — and they stop collecting when you hit it.
Neon brings Git-style branching to Postgres, and its free tier includes 100 projects. One detail to plan around: the Scale tier's compute rate is more than double Launch's.
Strapi Cloud charges per project from $35 a month. The useful finding: paying overage on the Starter plan stays cheaper than upgrading until you approach the next tier's own allowance.
Feathery now positions as an AI decisioning system for financial services, not a general form builder. Its free plan is clear; everything above it is unpriced, and we say so rather than guessing.
Formstack starts at $99 a month in a category where capable free plans exist. Its submission limits are per form rather than pooled — a structure that punishes one busy form.