first of all much love to the Dev Team - you guys are doing an amazing job!
Now to my critique: Why do i have to pay 40$ in order to be able to publish my app to a staging domain? Common case: You’re building an app which has interactions (e.g. a chat) between multiple users. I wanna be able to be signed in as two, three, four or if i want to 100 different users simultaneously.
I don’t see any way to to this with the current pricing plans. Am i missing something?
I get the point that you have to pay if you want to go to production - maybe introduce a workspace plan (like webflow has) that let’s us test exactly such things (+ adding own components in that plan would be nice).
I have so many ideas which i could realize with WeWeb but the pricing is really heavy imo.
How do you guys think about this? I’d be happy about an open discussion on the pricing
Bumping this - wanna know if anyone feels the same?
We’d like to be able to have multiple users logged in at the same time to test different scenarios. E.g. group chats, live localization features, bidding systems, heck even mobile games and many other realtime and multi-user related POCs. I definiteley feel like we could use WeWeb to develop production ready applications for our clients but there are still many things to test trough.
Maybe offer a 14 Day Trial on the Partner Plan.
Maybe offer one project to be staged on a weweb.io domain for any plan. I think this is the biggest hurdle for new users. They’re so used to being able to publish for free and see their work in the “real world”.
Also Team and Business Workspace plans add literally zero value imho. We need staging domains - we really do.
Apart from this critique i’m very very happy with WeWeb and found it to be the best Low/NoCode Platform for our usecases out there so far. I truly believe that significantly more users will buy paid plans if it is ultimately worthwhile.
P.S.: @WeWeb: Would love to get honest feedback from you guys - anyway we will probably go for the Partner Plan in any case.
I agree, WeWeb is doing an amazing job and my only critique is the cost difference to get a staging app. I’m finding there is only so much testing you can do inside the editor, and often times I find bugs in the published version that can’t be duplicated in the editor.
It would be nice to publish the app to a staging domain so my team could stress test new changes before pushing it to production.
I have clients who feel the same. It’s become a point of friction to them, I think the pricing plans are great the way they are, I just think a staging environment should either be included, or available ad an addon.
I’d think any app using anywhere near the 50K monthly visits would definitely need a staging app. Although the Scale plan brings its own value, paying more than 3X just to get access to that 1 feature seems a little extreme.
I’d like to add my support for another level between Starter and Scale. Call it Launch? I’d pay $100/mo for:
Live application
Custom domain
Unlimited plugins
100,000 monthly app visits
5GB file storage
Roles and permissions
Data caching system
1 editor auto-backup per hour
Production app staging
Production app versioning
1 production app backup
Yeah, a plan for freelancers/agencies that allows us to publish them to a .weweb.io subdomain would be great.
I understand why you wouldn’t want to do it, because some people would use that for their internal tools, but that can be fixed if there are some limitations in place. Cap the monthly bandwidth to each subdomain.
Maybe limit how many users can sign up (e.g., no more than 10).
Or limit the amount of data that is shown or posted to the database (e.g., if you have a table, that table can only display 20 rows, even if there are 1000 in the database).
That way, our fellow developers can showcase their portfolio without having to pay $39/mo per sample.
A plan similar to Webflow, which I’m a user for over 2 years, where you can do your freelancing job would be awesome.
This, in term, will also allow those less fortunate people, that can’t afford $39/mo, to showcase their work.
*staging with a custom URL. I have two clients who have a coded product and for whom we’re building client portals. Their dev team is surprised WeWeb doesn’t offer custom URL for staging.
Never mind the fact they requested a demo environment also (demo, staging and prod).
Congratulations WeWeb, I think you’ve created the tool we’ve all been waiting for. But if you want to grow, there’s an issue with your pricing and the lack of the ability to publish projects in Staging.
Let me share my story with Webflow. Today, I’m one of the leading Webflow freelancers in my country, but to achieve this, I first had to prove to myself and the world that I could deliver quality work while learning.
Webflow’s plan, which allowed me to create projects in Staging and showcase them as part of my portfolio, helped me land my first jobs and start the wheel of learning and growth in the real world.
How can I convince a client to build their WebApp with WeWeb if I can’t show them any WebApp built with you?
I believe that if you want to grow, you need to build a community (developers and clients), and to do that, you must lower the entry barrier. Just look at the amount of work available on Upwork for Webflow and the demand for WeWeb developers.
You could maybe offer one project to be staged on a weweb.io domain for any plan. I think this is the biggest hurdle for new users. They’re so used to being able to publish for free and see their work in the 'real world
Thank you, Ryanev. After finishing the academy, I’ll see if it makes sense for me to go with this plan. However, it’s a bit higher than Webflow’s $39 plan. I understand it’s a tool for building WebApps and not static sites, but we also have to keep in mind that we need to pay for a backend as well. I would love it if WeWeb and Xano could come to an agreement and offer packages to learners for around $50. I insist, it’s important to build a community and a portfolio of developers offering their services to potential clients who will later pay for the plans because there’s a business or startup behind it
Supabase will lower your costs to 0 or 25 bucks, if you decide to pay for it. Xano community wasn’t able to tell me why I should use Xano over Supabase, so I think they have no arguments
