Under the new pricing changes, it appears that our application for our online art education organization will face a 10x price increase. While we are shocked and anxious about what this may mean for our organization, teachers, and 1,000 students, we hope to be able to absorb this with increased efficiency.
Unfortunately, our latest pre-revenue venture which is B2B will be untenable on Bubble given pricing changes. Because the core feature-set is reliant on workload intensive activities (API-based synchronization of large databases and displaying analytics from the databases that are crunched on the back-end), we anticipate that we will need to cut features that we’ve invested heavily in, built, and promised to our prospects, and alter the pricing that we’ve put forth.
This will cause irreparable damage to our reputation in our fragile pre-revenue stage. This has decimated our trust in Bubble and short of an alternative pricing contract, we will be forced to migrate off within 18 months. We don’t believe that even significant discounts to the planned changes will be tenable for this business; as we grow and add new consumers and businesses to the database, our workload expenses will increase exponentially given the search-for necessities of analytics with a rapidly-growing database.
I believe that the pricing changes will make Bubble non-viable option for any application that uses API-synchronized databases or analytics, which is a non-starter for most B2B applications. They say that data is the new oil, and unfortunately Bubble would be opting to exclude itself from any application that derives data-based insight for its consumers.
It is my hope that this thread will provide Bubble some insight in how to adjust pricing so as not to exclude itself from large and growing markets. It is our hope to remain Bubble customers for many decades to come and are dismayed by being forced off after investing so much time, talent, and energy.
What other use-cases are no longer viable on Bubble given pricing changes?