thanks for the all information, let me break down the key point in terms of my view.
firstable, I can’t receive any payment in free plan cause the only option is to connect stripe, which doesn’t support my country(South Korea).
so in order to make money from glide I should take the paid plan but, the real problem is that my model is based on Saas which means I’m not sure how many people would come to my glide app when I’m not sure I can even afford it.
so my conclusion is giving up receiving payments and just open the customer’s number for my app. at this point, I need to make clarity does ‘Maker Plan’ really offer unlimited personal user?(with sign in e-mail)
The maker plan offers unlimited users yes but the maker plan is still limited to 25K rows. Since each user will occupy a row in the user table, you can say that will be your limit in terms of the number of users but without adding any other information to the tables.
In essence, it’s not unlimited users as the row limit will restrict you…
My advice, don’t worry about that limit for now, you probably won’t even reach that many users and if/when you do, your thinking will be different to what you are thinking now especially if they are fee paying users. Just start!
Thanks for the detailed information. I’m gonna take the maker plan!
I’ve got one last question:)
When Setting > Sign in screen > I kept seeing the red message of ‘You cannot access this email address. Please try with a different email’ when trying to click continue after filled in the e-mail address. is it because I’ve already signed-in through that e-mail or is it something to do with the ‘personal user’ thing. which I wanna also know what type of email domains that glide take for personal user include ‘gmail & edu’
cause there’s ‘naver’ almost every korean use… it’s definitely not for business (almost personal). if you know any about what they(glide) take for personal user(domain) please let me know.
Platform that you pay to use for your development processes is FlutterFlow. It gives you a tool to create your code and then you’re free to do whatever you want with that code. Glide is taking care of many more things than simply giving you a tool to develop apps. Glide cares about hosting, maintaining, security, updating the design and so on. Were you taking all this for granted?
I don’t see how this point makes sense when Glide can simply pull the plug and all your apps go down the drain…
If you are a Glide developer, this makes the most sense to become a legit partner through Experts Program. If you want things to go your way — then don’t be surprised by any unexpected changes because at the core of it all is Glide as a business.
There is an email validator that Glide was using to validate emails whether they are business or personal. I just don’t have the link at the moment. I am sure someone else will link you to that thread or post the link here.
If your email is not listed as personal email even though it is personal use email then you can reach out to Glide to add those email addresses as personal use emails.
While I understand your point of view, you seem to ignore that not everyone is on the expert program and also not everyone wants to be part of the program at least not yet anyways…
There are many types of users that use Glide. What about those that only use the free plan? How are they helping Glide make money.
You say Glide takes care of a lot more e.g. maintenance etc but also Glide charges for those things which they “take care of”. Its not like on a paid plan you get those for free. I can understand why you would see Glide as a partner and don’t blame you for how you use the tool but also accept that different people have different business models. If I pay for a service, I get to decide how I package that service and then sell it on to my clients.
Again I will reiterate my point, at the moment, I am the client to Glide and my clients are mine until such time I decide otherwise…
Sure, you are free to do anything you want. I’m just advising you to be cautious when using Glide not the way it’s recommended to be used.
Regarding Free users, they help Glide by telling friends how cool Glide is and by sharing links to their home-made yet slick apps which say Made by Glide. Some of those friends are business owners in need of custom apps and they will eventually become Glide customers
@Luther I understand perfectly, your case is that of the vast majority of developers who use Glide to set up an agency and sell software solutions to third parties. Buying or paying for a tool for our benefit is the norm; Glide knows perfectly how to prevent abuses on its platform. We are all honest individuals working. Each one seeks their benefit; I only made that comment because it seemed like this person’s intention was to point out that we were doing something wrong. I replied that everyone seeks their own benefit. We pay for a platform and sell our work to generate profits. We don’t advertise our provider; that’s not in the business model since we pay for white-label. Otherwise, we would use the free plan for many solutions. I hope you find the right model for your agency; we’re here if you need more help. We’ve been working in this for 25 years already. My greetings, brother.
@Luther Glide is a good tool, I always mention that. In @nathanaelb comment, it was clear that selling applications for different companies with a team plan was not considered right, although it is possible and can be controlled and leveraged when the plan is not misused. I’m not here to debate that. Software agencies acquire a tool and use it as needed to gain profit. Glide knows how to control this and does it well by limiting all plans, as they recently did. It’s not in our scope of work to ensure our provider’s profitability. They know how to grow their businesses, relying on users for that. We seek our benefits, and the provider seeks theirs. Therefore, there are plans with their respective limitations. Controlling certain aspects of tool usage, such as how Glide clients market the solution, would be too costly and senseless for the company. Take Notion, for example, which is fantastic for digitizing businesses, has an $8 monthly plan, and allows inviting 100 users to sheets, something utilized by companies to their advantage. They continue to grow. Trying to follow the movements of millions of users, as they aim to achieve, is impossible. You might face consequences like the image if you abuse your community too much. I conclude here because it’s not the goal of the conversation. I may not agree with certain comments and could debate these matters, but we’re here to work, not waste time.