Will I be paying a bit more per month? Yes.
Will I be getting MUCH more value for what I’m paying? Also yes!
I’m really happy about these changes. Thanks, Glide team!
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On starter package will i have the same features i have now such as Webview etc ?
If I pass now to annual, will price be respected full year ???
I have only one Pro app, and that’s all I expect to have for some time. But I need all the features it has. Will the “Team Starter” remove any of my abilities?
Ya…the starter plan is comparable to the “basic” plan.
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But my app is not on the ‘Basic’ plan, it’s on the Pro plan (28/mo), and I looked into downgrading it but would lose features on the Basic. So I guess that answers my question. It’s going to more than triple my cost…
Ya…was answering your question in a roundabout way I guess.
If the current pricing is works for you though, just stick with it because you’ll be grandfathered into previous pricing.
Regarding the lines, who has more, how is it? Returns to 500?
Which features are the most important for you on the Pro plan? When we launch the details of the new team plans next week, you may find that the Starter plan works for you
These changes look really good to me.
I like that it’s no longer necessary to have a separate subscription for an app and page used for the same purpose.
The increased number of private users included in the subscription is a big bonus as well. The old $40+2 pricing model made the price escalate too quickly and limited the types of apps we could build.
One concern I have is with private pages that are in development. We need to add lots of data/rows to properly build and test the pages, but it could be 6 months+ before we’re able to release it and actually make money. To test the build with a decent amount of data, we’ve had to upgrade to pro, even though we’re still very early in the build and test stage. It would be nice to have the ability to keep pages in draft and access higher row limits, without having to upgrade way before we’re ready to release. I understand that this comes with its own issues (people free loading off draft apps), but I’m assuming these could be addressed.
Well, he did a pretty good job of putting a comparison of Old Free / New Free at the top of this post; a comparison of Old Pro / New Basic team would have helped a LOT.
I have been doing a lot of looking at features now, and I notice a “100 public user sign-in” limit.
I have about 20 users right now, because even though the app is “pro”, they are beta-testing for a wider release. Is my pro app really going to be limited to 100 total users (who can use the app but not design)?
It shows no one has signed in in the usage area.
Am I not understanding what a “user” is?
In the video, it shows up to 100 employees and 2500 customers on the pro plan. I assume this means you can have up to 2500 client users on the pro plan, but would also love to see a breakdown of the old pro vs. starter vs. new pro. I guess we’ll have to wait until next week.
I think an important aspect that needs to be emphasized here is the user limit is across all apps, not for a single app, BUT if the same email signs in for multiple apps in the same team, it will only count as 1.
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That assumes you are building an app for clients. If you are building a store, you’d want to have more than 2500 customers, no? Is that a hard limit or a “suggested limit” based on app performance?
For example, what if I have – not a store – but a content subscription app. I’m going to want more than 2500 users of my content, for sure.
Glide seems to focus more and more on tools for internal use, optimizing workflows and processes. Less on public-facing apps.
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To be fair to Glide and the team, they have always remained true to their vision. From what I could gather from very early on, their main focus is enterprises that are looking for a productivity tool. Now it’s up to us to learn to use the tool so that we can assist enterprises that may need a tool for productivity purposes or to optimise their processes but don’t have the time to invest to learn the tool.
Where we find misalignment is when we, and I am guilty of that as well l, try and use Glide for what it is not primarily designed for e.g. eCommerce. This is in part due to its versatility, adaptability and in part it’s ease of use and the very supportive community. It’s the go to tool for building any type of MVP but we must also be mindful that when we go that path, we are only building an MVP and therefore if you for example need more than 2500 users then you probably have validated the concept and no longer need an MVP but rather you should be looking for seed funding and go big. That is if you want to use it for mostly creating public facing Apps e.g. Instagram clone, Tik-Tok etc…
My first impression from the little information that I have of the new pricing, is that this price change is quite generous for those that use the tool for what it’s meant for and less generous to those that want to use it for other purposes e.g. creating public facing Apps.
While we will still be able to create public facing Apps, it won’t make sense anymore to stay or scale your MVP with Glide packages, you would have to look elsewhere or fine tune your revenue model and still scale with Glide packages.
Either way, I believe it’s exciting times ahead and the onus is on us the developers to take Glide to the “world” industries that still use spreadsheets as a database management tool and tell them about this wonderful piece of software that can do wonders 
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But they want to create 1 billion new programmers? And they’re going to tell each of these billion that they cannot create a content-sharing app (“Look at my Southern Recipes and download the app!”?
I guess as @Luther says, we who do such things need to “look elsewhere”. I wonder how many of those billion programmers are going to want to do what I am doing? Glide seems to market itself as a general-purpose app development tool.
They probably have their own IT department.
Our Pro plan will include 5,000 public users per month for $99. If you have 5,000 subscribers logging into your content app each month, $99 is a breathtakingly low price. Why do you think new pricing is prohibitive here?
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