# Saying Goodbye to Glide **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [November 29, 2025, 9:52pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/saying-goodbye-to-glide/85597 "2025-11-29T21:52:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lemusa](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/lemusa/32/92080_2.png) [@Lemusa](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Lemusa)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2025, 9:52pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/saying-goodbye-to-glide/85597/1 "2025-11-29T21:52:39Z")
First of all, this is intended to be constructive. I figured my experience might be useful to others, and maybe give Glide something to think about when it comes to retaining users like me. I get that Glide is primarily aimed at organisations building internal tools. For that purpose it’s a solid platform. But it also has real potential for people trying to build and monetise public-facing apps. I built a roster/pay calculator on Glide. The learning curve was pretty manageable – I came in with a strong spreadsheet background, some HTML/CSS, and only a touch of JavaScript. The platform is intuitive enough, and there’s plenty of material online to get started. Key features of my app were: • User profiles with their role, scale etc • Users enter their rostered shifts by fortnight or within a monthly calendar • They pick the pay fortnight they want • The pay page calculates gross, deductions, net, and penalty breakdowns • A subscription layer (via PayHere/Stripe) to unlock features (primarily, more than one fortnight of shifts) Functionally, Glide handled all of that really well. Load times were good, and even with some table limitations I could get the layout looking how I wanted. Where things got difficult was administration. Not having a true admin view – especially the ability to export all user-specific data – made troubleshooting far more painful than it needed to be. My main blockers were: 1. Price – $60/month isn’t ideal for a small/startup app. 2. Row limits – never hit them, but had to design around them from day one. 3. Custom domains – should really be available on every paid tier. 4. No built-in testing branches or maintenance mode. After mulling it over, I started looking at alternatives. Eventually I ended up doing it the hard way – rebuilding everything in React with Supabase on the back end and Vercel hosting. With a lot of help from AI, I got it done in about two months of evenings. The end result performs better, looks cleaner, and right now costs me nothing to host ~250 users. As the app grows, the hosting costs will grow with it, which feels far more reasonable. My takeaway is this: if I hadn’t built the first version on Glide, I never would have attempted a full-stack build. Glide taught me the logic and helped me shape the idea, but the limitations eventually pushed me to outgrow it. So genuinely — thanks for the start, and goodbye 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Robert\_Petitto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/robert_petitto/32/25193_2.png) [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2025, 6:56pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/saying-goodbye-to-glide/85597/2 "2025-11-30T18:56:27Z")
Best of luck with your endeavor! Happy to have had you in the community! ---
**Author:** ![UseSoft](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/usesoft/32/92490_2.png) [@UseSoft](https://community.glideapps.com/u/UseSoft)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2025, 10:53am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/saying-goodbye-to-glide/85597/3 "2025-12-01T10:53:09Z")
Oh.. you went the right way. Full-stack is the best right now, especially with AI help, you can build unlimited apps for free or just a little spending for a great servers below $5/month. ---
**Author:** ![Myles\_Chaput](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/myles_chaput/32/62176_2.png) [@Myles\_Chaput](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Myles_Chaput)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2025, 9:30pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/saying-goodbye-to-glide/85597/4 "2025-12-03T21:30:57Z")
there are limitations for some of us low coders using full stack, I love how Glide is a UI that I can edit, and the backend I can feed it information, its certainly pricey, which is why it has a specific use case. I just tried to build a similar app with Replit, and the Replit AI prompt charges to build a somewhat usable interface, were priced astronimcally! I spend $100 worth of engineering, and have little to show for it usefulness wise…. Glide still has a place in my heart.