I am a specialist with several freelancing projects in FlutterFlow and have recently started using WeWeb. I found it to be an incredible tool with numerous possibilities. However, the pricing model ends up being a deterrent; $39 per project becomes unbalanced for agencies to pass on the cost and to test MVPs in the market. I understand that there are expenses related to server hosting, and this is where there could be some adjustments. It would be beneficial to evaluate a plan that does not include hosting but rather just the exportation of code with unlimited projects. This approach is very attractive to many and is the current model of FlutterFlow, which has been very successful. Many people are migrating from Bubble to FlutterFlow/WeWeb due to its pricing and code lock-in.
I realize that everyone always wants the cheapest, best, and fastest options. WeWeb has its strategy, finances, and infrastructure. However, I believe there is huge potential for popularization if the pricing was adjusted, considering the amount of FlutterFlow tutorials that have emerged on YouTube over the past year.
I appreciate your time and congratulations on creating such an incredible tool.
thanks a lot for your feedback @Apptrix. We are currently thinking about a pricing revamp that should hopefully cover the case you are describing. It is hard to come up with a date for the new pricing yet, but it should be sometimes in the summer. We appreciate you took the time to write about it here!
I already talked about this with Slavo also, it might be worth a shot lowering the “visits” because I have apps for SMEs where they use it and have like 1000 views max per month. This would just bring so much more revenue in my opinion, right now, WeWeb makes no sense financially for small projects with single enterpreneurs / SMEs trying to automate/enhance their workflows. The lowest plan is too generous and too expensive. The cost is like, number one cause why people I talk to don’t end up adopting WeWeb. And I even spoke to bigger companies (10-15 Mil. Yearly Reve). They loved the empowerment WeWeb gives them, but a 39 bucks subscription * 10-50 apps is just crazy, especially if they develop it for their clients who are not SaaS oriented, but they still want a solution for like their 2-3 employees to work with. As of now I see WeWeb being positioned as a SaaS builder tool, so it makes it impossible for me to sell it to small businesses as a “custom solutions to their problems”. I even don’t personally pay for WeWeb, and I never would with this pricing, because I can’t just simply justify the costs as a Freelancer, I use it only on clients.
yeah kind of agree and shared also
asking myself the same for staging even for a hosted fully paid 1 website plan, instead of force to push to prod and maybe got too much rendering activated making at the end way more big publishing knowing that it still make a .weweb io domain accessible, even for no staging plan, it seem very odd choice
I might get it totally wrong and will appreciate some enlightement, but it seem more of a purposefuly locked feature that is no more expensivier for weweb, if it’s some routing domain
The workspace plan for example of Webflow for 24$/month 10 project with staging, and code export + wized at 7$ for eg, knowing that wized can run an app hosted on vercel for example (i did this before)
Here if i were to want creating a landing page template i would need to pubish, into export code, into delete the page into republishing. Make no many sense tbh
Also commiting these day for a whole year is kind of not necessary attractive especially if we got code export option, the ecosystem is moving, like very fast
The staging on all paid plans would be huge selling point in my opinion. Currently its just too big of a bum up in cost just to get staging but I struggle to see who would ever really want to develop an app without it.
+1
That puts WeWeb into the Premium category for accessing the Staging feature.
In a sense, WeWeb is definitely Premium which would then makes sense not to offer this in the Scale plan.
At the end of the day, would it be such a loss for WeWeb to offer Staging in the Starter plan?
It has definitely a cost for maintenance and releasing this to a bigger audience would increase costs in terms of customer service/support.
It really depends how the underlying infra is built. It could be costing them. As long as people will be buying it, I think it won’t change as they often mention it works. I also have a gut feeling that the branching will also become somewhat premium, but that’s juat a wild guess.
