I know that this topic has been discussed but I’m still very surprised that this doesn’t seem to be a priority for Glide.
I’m a small winemaker in France. I tried glide to build records of my treatments in vines, bottling records, GPS moves to track down my car expenses, ect… all thoses features are easy to find in spécific sofwares specialy taylored for specific industries. In my field there are around 150€/month. It doesn’t seem to be a lot, but for small busniesses 1800€ a year is still a lot of money. And tools like Glide that are resonable expenses.
I’m somehow geek"ish" so I can play around with Glide but none of my friends are around tech navy enough, they are typical farmers that have hard time with computer. The app I built would be perfect for a lot of similar businesses in my field.
There is no simple way to monetise your app wich I don’t understand why. The big corporations can have a dedicated IT person that create a Glide app for there companies. But small ones, they can’t and Glide won’t be able to reach the people that don’t even understand what no-code means and even if they see an add they don’t have the skills to build there apps.
The good model for me is a integraded payment subscription that would allow Admins (me) to give acess to users. I know there are tricks to do it but it’s not easy nor smooth. So nobody really uses it to a big scale.
I think my app could be a good use for small winemakers around me but without monetisation, there is no way I dedicate some time to it. To my point of view it’s a missed oportunity for me (because I like Glide and how efficient it is) and for Glide because they won’t be able to reach all the non tech savy people that WE can reach.
I generate 25$/month for Glide but it could be exponatially more with monetisation to my opinion.
Have you thought about making it as a template and then helping them set it up. If it saves them money I am sure they would have no problem to invest a little bit of time and money to save in the longer term.
IMHO @AdamMartin is spot on, create a template and transfer it to their account.
But please be aware that Glideapps are not compiled and therefore your fellow winemakers can cause you many extra hours of work if they by accident modify their copy!
Or asking for modifications of this and that, and suddenly you have dozens of apps to maintain.
You might be interested in becoming a Glide Expert, but then your wine might suffer :).
All the best from Portugal where we also have some nice wine regions!
Completely agree with you! I find myself in the same situation but in the hotel industry. Not sure how Glide wants to reach 1 billion + users if they don’t target smaller companies who want to monetize and startups in general.
One option you can take here is to create a simple landing page for your software solution, that allows for sending users to sign up via Glide app sign in page. You can also use the landing page to sell a premium subscription, and use Make/Zapier to populate a boolean field in a glide table for Premium users. You can tie some visiblity of components to this field being true or not.
If you dont anticipate a high amount of users you could simply maintain the boolean column manually as well, only enabling it when a signed-up user completes payment.
yes definitly I understand. I’ve seen these options they seems to work.
But to my opinion Glide has been very good at providing a ton of features ib two clicks. There are so many features that I can have for free or cheaper, like it’s easy to write a simple Google sheet scrict to get the adress of a GPS cordinate. But I much prefer the simplicity and rapidity of using it in Glide natively, same with Chat GPT. It’s much more pleasure to add two collums than using the API at my level.
Who am I to have opinion on a big company business strategies, seriously? I’m already struggling with my tiny company, so… I’m just surprised that a realatibly easy feature to implement like a integrated subscription (where of course glide would get money out of it) is not a priority. Especialy because it generates revenues from day 1. But once again if I were a business strategiest I would not be wrting these lines
I’m still enjoying Glide, but for now on a free plan to help my tiny operations. And frankly I’m loving spending time on it so I have no grief at all !
