I'm a Yankee from northern Maryland retiring to South Carolina next year, so I'm trying out "y'all", as well as Smartsuite! I like them both, so far! I hope my cultural appropriation doesn't offend anyone!
I'm a finance professional for a publicly traded REIT and have always wrangled Excel to do what I need, but like many of you I keep abreast of new technologies not for any clientele I have, but for my own weird interest in database technologies, particularly those that are web based (definitely at the surface level). My individual use case is primarily to track debt and equity issuances and the holdings by company executives and directors, and the different tranches of short-term debt we have outstanding. The possible use cases in our company as a whole are abundant and varied! In the past I've dabbled with MS Access, Alpha Five (now Alpha Anywhere), Filemaker, etc. I've also have an account with Airtable, Coda and have played with Ninox and several others.
Several things attract me to Smartsuite, starting with a proven and committed entrepreneur at the helm, Jon Darbyshire, and a very competent team of developers. Second, Smartsuite seems the closest of the web based databases to being what Access or Filemaker could have been had they been able to easily transition into web based application development. Smartsuite will need a scripting or other language, similar to VBA, to truly provide the flexibility of Access or Filemaker, but it seems to be on the right path. Lastly, I like that Smartsuite's help files seems to keep up with it's fast paced development efforts.