Mad idea: B2B standard Glide "BackOffice" template to customize

@david states that:

  • Glide is rather for B2B (vs B2C) → I totally agree, this is my focus
  • a large part of registered users looked at Glide without really using it → I have 10s of prototypes but did not dare proposing 1 to potential clients.

Why?

  • I came 3 times in 3 months before really starting to use: it is very quick to do a “private - forfun - gadget - app”. But when it comes to do something that we trust we can provide to a B2B, this is another story.
  • This other story starts with what I call the BackOffice * … which is relatively common to most B2Bs apps.

My view to “Boost Glide BuyIn” (for B2B makers ) would be to have:

  • a basic template app with pre-made BackOffice * elements
  • a 15 mn step-by-step video to adapt it.
    → makers would (1) get rid of the backoffice pain, (2) focus on the core of their idea (which is what they like).

Had I this, I would have used Glide the 1st time, and more important, would have probably proposed my different apps to prospects: fees for me & for Glide.

What I call Glide app’s BACKOFFICE for a B2B (non exhaustive)

Bases:

  • user profile
  • company profile (+ not registered yet users to ease on-boarding)
  • internal stakeholders (employee per level, admin role …)
  • external stakeholders (clients, suppliers, partners)

Workflows:

  • on-board 1st user of a non existing company
  • on-board other in/external users of an existing company
  • notifications (whatsapp, slack etc)
  • sharing on social network
  • internal comments
  • internal private-public chats
  • payment

@Drearystate, if Glide does not have time / interest in this “buy-in lever”, what if we just started ourselves to build this template?
I am thousands of km away of your knowledge, but can share some 1st ideas with you in PM.

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