I would like to see a hosted tier between Enterprise and Free.
maybe something like $10/dev plus upcharges for storage and data transfer. but unlimited apps(or at least a generous amount of apps). and an issue escalation charge.
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#32congrats! I work in a similar space, and this looks promising. Suggestion for your marketing team - the promo demo is great, but make it HD. The demo recording is pixelated on 4K res. You can do better :) Good luck!
Cheers - where did you watch the promo video? We use wistia for the website, but you can view it on youtube too.
Is this any better: https://youtu.be/xoljVpty_Kw
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#33My use case may or may not have been part of the intended initial focus of Budibase, which was to create an MVP to test and refine an idea. I am not a dev, but I was able to find my around it for the most part. To me, it was like an updated, easier to use MS Access alternative. When I was stuck, I joined their Discord chat room. The founders were prompt and informative in response to my questions. Congratulations on the launch. To success. Ace.
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#34I haven't played with the api connector, but where do you store the api keys? is there a way to throttle the calls and hide them behind authentication so a user doesn't just blast my api if it's a paid service?
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#35just chiming in to congratulate you on a successful Product Hunt launch today as well! ( https://www.producthunt.com/posts/budibase ) i gotta ask about the tradeoffs of being open source. It's great for trust and marketing, but if people can self-host Budibase they're always weighing DIY vs paying you. I also work in an open source company and I know product development is often slowed because you have to consider th…
Thanks! Open-source has been fantastic for us. We've only recently launched our cloud platform, yet we've had a good sized community using Budibase and feeding back issues, feature requests etc. for ages. Building an open-source product has been so rewarding that way.
Of course, you're exactly right - we now have another ball to juggle; keeping our cloud up and running!
It took us nearly 3 years to open our cloud up, but I'm so glad that we left it this long. Only now do we have the engineering resource to handle open-source/self-host and cloud whilst still keeping the pace of development up.
So, for tips - work on product, product, product. Build your community and give them a great open-source offering. Your community will give back in return - even pure product feedback is gold. Then launch cloud when your direction is solid and you're confident in your product.
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#36I would like to see a hosted tier between Enterprise and Free. maybe something like $10/dev plus upcharges for storage and data transfer. but unlimited apps(or at least a generous amount of apps). and an issue escalation charge.
Thanks for the feedback! We've not yet settled our pricing, which is why its not listed.
Great to hear some opinions on it :)
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#38But what if I want to see the pricing right away?
We haven’t yet worked out out our pricing model for Budibase Cloud. However, it will most likely be user-based / per seat - similar to platforms like Retool & Airtable.
Such pricing models would prevent any kind of resale for most products. Please at least consider a pricing model which allows for something like 1 USD per MAU, for instance if data isn't shared between users (could a SaaS be build on budibase which cost 10 USD per month to the end-user).
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#39My use case may or may not have been part of the intended initial focus of Budibase, which was to create an MVP to test and refine an idea. I am not a dev, but I was able to find my around it for the most part. To me, it was like an updated, easier to use MS Access alternative. When I was stuck, I joined their Discord chat room. The founders were prompt and informative in response to my questions. Congratulations on…
Thanks Ace!
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#40What's the difference between Budibase and AppSmith and what is the benefit to switch my apps from AppSmith to Budibase?