I don’t use Airtable on a regular basis. I only use it rarely, and mostly to test a Glide feature. I’ve never used Airtable in production.
From what I’ve gathered in the community forum, using Airtable as a data source in Glide is not always a smooth experience: syncing delays and row order not respected are what come by mind.
An advanced search in the forum for “Airtable” might give you a better idea.
To answer your question:
- I personally always start my Glide projects with Glide Tables. So far my projects are small, and I’ve rarely had to add another data source, Google Sheets at most on a couple projects.
- If needed, I’ll use Google Sheets or Excel.
- I’m open to using large data sources – Glide Big Tables and SQL sources – but my projects haven’t scaled there yet.
- I avoid Airtable (for now) for the reasons stated above.