I agree. In my no code class, I’d always teached how to use glide. This was actually my favorite part, now I have to find another app. It was just for educational purpose to eventually entice users to use glide afterwards. There’s no way, i’ll pay..
It’s a terrible business decision .
You can still use Glide for educational purposes, teach everything that is related to Glide, and even see what the finished app would look like in the layout editor. You would only lose the ability to publish the app and therefore use it in production, but that part isn’t necessary if you only need to demonstrate Glide.
i think the long notice period is very reasonable.
this move basically stops the free tier from being used for low volume production apps, forcing serious users to subscribe if they need external hosting. that is a typical pivot for SAAS platforms when the testing phase is done and they need to monetize server load.
20 students x $50USD x 3 months = $3000USD for a highschool class is not an option. Maker Plan does not = smiling face
Not sure why you would want to limit learning to just ‘demonstrate’?
- Ask each of your students to create an account on Glide. (free)
- They will be by default on a Free plan.
- Have them create apps/projects. They can create as many as they like. (free)
- When they want to share the backend of an app/project with you, in their dashboard, have them “Create a template”. This action will duplicate the app, move it to their templates folder and allow the students to share the private link to their app’s template. (free)
- Have them share this link with you, via email I presume. (free)
- You can click on the link they share with you, this will bring you to your Glide dashboard and you will be ask in which team folder to save their template. (free)
So in a nutshell:
Student creates an app → Turns app into template → Shares template with you via link → You click on link and copy template to your account.
You could, for instance, create a team per class or training or cohort of students.
You can do all of this for free. The only thing your students cannot do is publish their applications in order to use them in a real world setting. This of course is a shame, because they can build and test themselves, but they cannot have friends and family see their work and test for them.
Thank you for this great response, @nathanaelb , very helpful. The projects I want my students working on need to be tested by their target market. So, agreed, they not only miss out on their friends and family seeing their work and test for them, also large parts of community miss out on seeing the creative possibilties that Glide is capable of providing. Sad that Glide has under estimated the benefits of such visibility which would have helped to grow their company @NoCodeAndy
Hi Richard, you make a very valid point. As the plans currently stand and as we’ve established, people can test using Glide (the platform) and have someone review the backend of their project on the Free plan, but apps cannot be tested in the real world simply because they cannot be published. Basically, the Free plan allows a person or team to test Glide the platform, but not test their work.