Hello everyone,
After transitioning from another platform to Glide for our startup’s MVP, we’ve realized that there are several smaller issues that require further development. These challenges make it difficult to work with Glide, but despite that, we’re making an effort to stay because of its user intuitiveness and database structure.
We have some feedback and feature requests that we would like to share. We would greatly appreciate confirmation or engagement from the Glide team to see if these issues are known but not addressed due to business decisions or if there are plans to fix them:
A) We would like the option to hide pages separately on mobile and web. Currently, there is a general “hide from menu” button, but we need the ability to hide the menu on mobile and web independently. WHY ? → We want to have many pages on the app as we can show them on the Toggle Menu bar, but if we do that then the web page looks just “too much”.
B) The pro level does not allow users to read sheets, which seems like an oversight considering that Airtable or Google Sheets can be integrated. What is the reasoning behind this limitation?
C) The default favicon has rounded corners, making it appear unattractive. Could you please provide an option to round the corners or customize the favicon? This should be a relatively straightforward change. ---- do note that on Google it still shows the old favicon and image, still after 1 month of usage despite clearing cache from Cloudflare and using different browsers.
D) Subdomain linking using Short.io and its integration is interesting, but it creates unnecessary complications. It would be helpful to have a dedicated table entry selection specifically for slugs instead of relying on hashing. GlideApps has made blogging, which should be straightforward, unnecessarily difficult to work with.
E) Working with webhooks is challenging since currently, they can only post data. It would be beneficial if receiving data from a webhook could be made easier so that we can store the values without relying on external services like Zapier or Integromat.
F) If possible, it would be great to have a static IP.
G) We would like to know the API rate limits for pulling/sending data to Airtable and external sheets. Is there a way to find this information in milliseconds?
H) Even if we don’t publish the updates we make on the frontend and click “revert changes,” the changes are not reverted. It seems that Glide is retaining the latest modifications on the front end.
G) If we don’t publish changes, sheet changes are still published. The “Revert Changes” button doesn’t seem to be functioning as intended. Shouldn’t we be able to revert all changes made to the layout and sheets?
J) The spreadsheets lack a “back” function, so if you accidentally delete a row or something similar, it’s gone forever. It would be helpful if this process was regulated by the “Publish” and “Revert Changes” buttons, or at least have some way to recover accidentally deleted data.
K) We can not store the User Login time and signup time, simply because Glide limits the edit of that page… This also feels “wrong” considering the fact that its simply a page allowing users to edit it will provide more creativity for projects building on it — at least fix the “signed up time etc”
L) Please provide a Google Login option for our app instead of using Glide login, this also feels a bit wrong considering that Glide has so much support for Goolge products – you anyways store the data don’t you?
M) Make things a bit more SEO friendliness, this will also help Glide to be honest!
N) Allow users to mark content as original because at the moment even if we publish on our domain the “domain.glideapps.com” still exists and this damages the SEO nature of things!
Thank you for taking the time to read this message.
I would like to acknowledge the following:
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In my professional career of about 8-10 years, I have never worked with such an easy-to-use tool as Glide. However, due to the expensive rates and some SEO & UX issues, we are considering exploring other platforms (which I won’t mention as its not the right place).
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We love the simplicity of creating action steps and syncing with external sources. It’s truly impressive!
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Initially, I was skeptical about support being provided by GPT only, but I quickly discovered that the community feature is even better. Having multiple experts providing feedback instead of relying on a single customer support specialist who may provide incorrect answers is a great advantage.
Once again, thank you, and we would appreciate some feedback on the above points as they have an impact on our business.
Best regards.
