Airtable is very convenient because we have a visual interface to check and manipulate the database easily. Migrating to our own server and database means we would have to ssh into the server and query the database manually anytime we want to do the same thing.
My suggestion is to implement a visual Admin interface for easy manipulation of the database by the project admins (@ann-kilzer , @yanarchy and @tuttiq ). Rails has some convenient libraries to easily implement something like that:
Airtable is very convenient because we have a visual interface to check and manipulate the database easily. Migrating to our own server and database means we would have to ssh into the server and query the database manually anytime we want to do the same thing.
My suggestion is to implement a visual Admin interface for easy manipulation of the database by the project admins (@ann-kilzer , @yanarchy and @tuttiq ). Rails has some convenient libraries to easily implement something like that:
Popularity ranking reference: https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/categories/rails_admin_interfaces