Airtable power users, building in public.
BuiltOnAir follows experienced Airtable users as they test workflows, inspect real bases, and talk through what breaks in production. Recent episodes move from formula checks and field renaming scripts to AI agents, webhooks, metadata, printable interfaces, and hackathon games.
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BuiltOnAir is an Airtable-focused show where experienced community members test real workflows in front of each other. It has the rhythm of a working session more than a polished lecture. The useful parts often come from watching someone think through a base while the others ask practical questions. Recent episodes show a strong bias toward Airtable maintenance, AI experimentation, community projects, and operational guardrails. One discussion on updating bases spends time on a simple but important habit: add a comparison field before replacing existing logic. The point is not just to write a cleaner formula. It is to prove that the new field matches the old behavior, spot records that disagree, and avoid letting an automation fight the test while changes are still being checked. That same practical streak appears in demonstrations of field naming scripts for linked relationships, lookup fields, and rollups. The show also follows Airtable’s AI direction closely. HyperAgent, Super Agent, Composio, MCP-style integrations, and agent orchestration all appear as working topics rather than abstract trends. The participants are interested in whether these systems can actually build, research, generate copy, preserve chat history, and connect to business tools without becoming noisy. Community builds are another major lane. Hackathon episodes highlight Airtable games, including no-code character adventures and projects that stretch synced tables beyond normal business-process use. Interface work gets similar attention, with printable student and enrollment layouts, sorting behavior, filters, modals, and record detail pages treated as serious product questions. Webhooks and metadata bring in the risk side of Airtable work. The show covers deleted tables, short trash retention, schema changelogs, email alerts, and sending data back into Airtable so automations and Airtable Omni can use it. BuiltOnAir is strongest for builders who already know the platform and want to see how other power users solve messy, specific problems. It is friendly and loose, but the center of gravity is technical. The value is in the small implementation choices: when to avoid sync, when to use a formula as a test harness, when a native interface can replace Page Designer, and when an AI feature still needs human patience.
Made for: BuiltOnAir is for Airtable builders and no-code teams who want practical examples rather than broad software commentary. It especially suits people maintaining complex bases, testing automations, or watching Airtable’s AI and interface features evolve.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by treating Airtable work as live craft: demos, edge cases, failed checks, naming decisions, and community experiments all stay on screen. It is less about announcing features than showing how they behave in real bases.
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.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
BuiltOnAir makes Airtable's evolving tools legible through live tests, careful maintenance advice and close attention to community-built experiments.
BuiltOnAir treats Airtable as working technology rather than a polished product pitch. Its hosts test interfaces on screen, inspect community projects and follow the practical decisions behind maintaining a base.
Airtable formulas on trial, so you can change a base without crossing your fingers.
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A focused Airtable maintenance segment built around formula mismatches, filtering, and checkbox-style checks.
BuiltOnAir keeps the episode firmly on practical Airtable maintenance, as the host and a guest work through a formula mismatch and use a summary bar, a clean filter, and a comparison field to show what is off before any table changes are made.
Airtable hackathon winners show how no-code experiments can become playable games, even as sharing them remains part of the challenge.
Built On Air frames the Airtable hackathon winners as a sign that a business-process platform can stretch into something more playful. The conversation centers on Mike's effort to make the winning projects easier to share, alongside Russell's interest in letting people actually…
A practical look at Hyper Agent, Composio, and the controls that keep Airtable automation understandable.
Built On Air's S23-E08 treats AI agents and Airtable less as a novelty than as a systems problem: how to let agents work across connected tools without losing track of what they are doing.
A practical Airtable field-renaming demo that makes linked-table cleanup feel manageable.
Airtable reliability sits lightly in the background of [S23-E07], but the episode spends most of its time on something more practical: a script for renaming fields across linked relationships.
Airtable webhooks are most useful when deleted changes become visible history.
Built On Air presents Airtable webhooks as a tidy way to keep more useful state inside Airtable itself. The episode works best when it moves from schema changelog theory into practical use: a deleted table can trigger an email alert, record history can survive the trash, and the…
A live Airtable interface demo that shows both the polish and the rough edges.
Built On Air spends this episode on Airtable's interface layer, following sorting, filters, record details, and a print button through a live demo.
A focused tour through a website-builder demo and a community-built Winter Olympics tracker.
Built On Air opens with a website-builder demo before moving into a community-built Winter Olympics tracker with a custom interface extension.
A practical Airtable episode about a civic program, delegations, conferences, and timeline-field workflow details.
Built On Air spends its time on the practical side of Airtable, following a civic-minded California program through delegations, conferences, and the steady work of keeping a large operation organized.
Restoration trade talk, software, stories, and field lessons.
Practical design talk for working creatives.
Microsoft BI updates, translated by practitioners.
Indian startup building, without the polish.
Tech banter with excellent derailments.
Microsoft 365 changes, read between the lines.
Airtable's visible labels can hide dependency-breaking internal IDs, and BuiltOnAir S24-E02 spends most of its time showing how that problem appears when you update fields, filters, and synced views.
Built On Air hosts Dan Fellers, Camille Parks, and Ali Losa open season 24 with guest Mike Simmons to recap Airtable's New York build-a-thon and the second community-led hackathon he organized.
Built On Air hosts Dan Fellers, Camille Parks, and Ali Losa welcome back guest Rob Bridener for season 23, episode 8, previewing two Airtable hackathons running March 1-17, including an in-person New York event.
BuiltOnAir hosts Dan Fellers and Camille Parks recap Airtable's February 20, 2026 outage, which lasted roughly five to six hours and took down even the airtable.com homepage.
A deep dive into mastering Airtable metadata on the Built On Air podcast.
Rob Weidner's Olympics interface combines a custom Airtable extension with a standard Airtable form.
Airtable’s AI interface element can update records inline, including a student’s grade field.
Martin, an Airtable freelancer in Prague, demos Power Sync and its schema changelog, which writes field and table changes back into Airtable for later review.
Built On Air S22-E07 centers on Airtable product news, On2Air Backups, and Christiana Dominguez's YMCA workflow.
This episode features an interview with Jun Shen about Airtable iOS Shortcuts and advanced filtering in interfaces.