I know it may not be easy the team to talk about it, but I’m wondering if this change is not due to the pressure of investors. VC backed businesses are expected to be highly profitable in a few years, not because it is the best long term interest of the business and its users, but to the VCs’ return on capital.
What results is investors (experienced in investing) drive the software’s building and using decisions more than the team (experienced in building) and users (experienced in using).
The whole team at Glide may reflect on what they truly want, what truly excites them, as opposed to what they are pushed to do. It is not easy. A board can fire a CEO, but not a whole team (unless they want to kill themselves).
Hi, I’m new to Glide and I’m actively using it, it’s an amazing job, it made me believe that it’s a tool that has incredible power to create jobs around the world! I’m Brazilian, and things here aren’t going the best way, our currency costs 5 times less than the dollar, I’m just here to make a request not only thinking about myself but everyone around the world who can use the glide as a salvation in gaining self-employment and the ability to be independent and be able to build a career, a life, and build a lot by believing in the potential of Glide, I am a software engineer and have created many things with different languages, and I am surprised by glide, If it touches your heart to change prices positively for us mere mortals, think of a plan that helps those less fortunate to gain the possibility of building their own business with Glide development, no one loses with low costs, on the contrary, everyone wins, and especially you, I’m just making a request that can help many people, for me it’s irrelevant, the company I provide services for will bear the costs of Glide, but I’m commenting on behalf of those less fortunate.
They do listen. I was even called by a team member to have a lengthy discussion about pricing structures. Either the wrong solutions were inferred from what the community expressed, or they inferred exactly what the community wanted. If this thread is anything to go by I would guess the former is true.
I understand your criticism though, this kind of backlash can be mitigated through more serious and intentional community engagement. My recommendation would be the very common method of focus groups (and maybe this goes on in upper circles I don’t know), but conducting focus groups combined with split testing of the company ideas.
As the change isn’t just a price change, it’s a change in billing structure that reflects a new perspective on how Glide should be used I assume there would have been multiple concepts or versions at play. It would have been useful for them to have had quality feedback on each of them before instituting the change.
Maybe this occured, I don’t know. But imagine if the community was able to review and feedback on different mockups for the proposed changes.
(I should add as a caveat that I was contacted prior to the previous price change, not the current one)
Hey folks , so I’ve been building schoolyyy.com using Glide since last year. Hoping to ramp up marketing and meeting with some local schools this year.
With the new pricing release , I’m wondering what option would suit best? Maker or Team?
Maker : Unlimited users from a school domain which makes sense but then limited amount of row updates
Team : Unlimited apps and higher row updates but limited user count.
With Maker I guess each school would need an individual account set up for them whereas Team could all be done under my own account? But then I would most likely need to pay more for additional users over the 20 limit.
I’ve no paying schools at the moment but with the eye on that changing this year , I wonder what option would suit best in the long term should things pick up.
Note , all of my AI columns in my glide tables are using OpenAI also.
Wise words! With most No Code tools, it works like this!
Usage based pricing seems to reach the largest market as it’s very in line with what people want to pay. Overal, this might mean more profit for Glide than the current pricing model (which might slow or even reverse the number of users using Glide). I had talks with lots of other developers and companies using Glide and they are currently all thinking about rebuilding somewhere else
That’s a pity because Glide could mean so much for the world!
Non-Profit plan used to fall under the Business “tier”, more or less, because there were some restrictions. What “tier” does it fall under now, with the new pricing structure, and what are the specifications? Or has the Non-Profit “tier” been dropped altogether? I see no mention of it.
So i would need the teachers to sign up using their personal emails rather than school emails. Seems counter intuitive considering its aimed at that sector supposedly.
There is a feedback tool built-in to the Validator they set up. Using that feedback button, you can submit other domains to be considered so they can be added to the list. I don’t know the specific criteria that a domain needs to meet to qualify for being added to the list, but there is a possibility that other domains can be used/added.
Thanks for listening! It’s one of Glide‘s core strengths.
I remember the open discussion about pricing back in Oct 2021 with update-based pricing. 🆕 Glide Pages (Beta) - #157 by Gregory
I understand that Glide wants a higher share of the created value.
Update based pricing matches your costs and gliders were incentivized to optimize them.
User based pricing again doesn’t get to the core of the problem as in 2021.
Maybe view-based (or page-load based) pricing gets closer to value creation.
Additionally, Glide has gone beyond CRUD thanks to automations and integrations. These features provide most value and thus gliders are willing to pay a premium (eg pay per action executed and per integration used; edit: and pay per API call and pay per GlideAI-column).
More and more gliders make a living with your tool and need planning reliability. Inflation adjusting price increases are acceptable.
