List style system with 5000 hotels plus data points on each hotel in the list via api (e.g. cost of living for the city it’s in, weather of the city, state it’s in).
Social network with 50k plus users, including discussion board, and feed of hotel and reviews ratings.
Hotels to be indexed and show up in search results (like cities in https://nomadlist.com/)
As low code as possible would be preferred, although happy to learn.
Is WeWeb a scalable platform, in terms of ease of use, pricing, and features?
From what you’re saying, the only limit might not even be WeWeb, but the person/agency who builds this. You need someone who knows how to make this scalable, with those numbers.
Other than that, there is nothing tough really. The only hard decision I think will be, whether use Supabase or Xano, because the Social Network part might rely and benefit heavily from their realtime, especially after WeWeb’s recent update to their Supabase SDK v2 integration.
The tradeoff is, that you lose the low-code of Xano, if you go with Xano, you rarely touch code, but have to hack around with non-native integrations for something like a chat feature or so, which in Supabase for now are easier to handle.
Overall, I’d say WeWeb is a great candidate, if not the best among the no-code / low-code, especially for scalability and the flexibility it offers, it’s not perfect, but it’s the closest to perfect, otherwise I wouldn’t be using it)) There is a lot more to be said and considered, If you want to chat more in depth, feel free to hit me up.
Hi @achambers1997, there’s nothing there from a technical perspective that raises any red flags.
However, as @Broberto mentioned, you’d just want to be smart while building the application—especially the back-end—to handle everything in a performant manner.
I’m curious about what you’re building and how the current business operates. Where do you currently store data?
Hey, at the moment it’s in Glide tables. So their version of spreadsheets. I’ll be downloading those as excels and trying to get them onto Supabase or Xano.
Thanks for the comprehensive answer! I can probably lose chat to start with. Can Xano handle a forum with posts and comments (e.g something like this community or a subreddit)
Xano can handle this very well. Have worked on building a similar feature so I can vouch for the combo (Xano + Weweb). For the “chats”, Xano is expected to launch a “real-time” feature this quarter so that wouldn’t be a tradeoff either!
As others said, Xano absolutely could handle a forum with posts and comments.
However, I’d strongly recommend doing some a build vs buy analysis on what exactly you need and cross-referencing that with other community tools, platforms, and APIs that already exist out there.
Building a forum, post and comment functionality, reddit-like functionality, etc. adds up to a lot of logic to build and maintain yourself. It’s possible that “buying” some of that functionality (and integrating it with WeWeb/your back-end) could be much better than building it.
At the most complex, there are tools like Amity that could provide the robust infrastructure that you need and work with WeWeb.
At the simplest, you can pre-configure a tool like Circle and make sure it integrates with your app, though it might not be a native experience.
