Was interested to know if there are some people here who would be willing to take on a challenge to re-build a bubble web application in Adalo and share the experience!
I was playing around with Adalo last week and I can see the opportunity here as a great app builder. Is anyone interested so we can set something up?
I have zero skills with Adalo so this might be a fun learning curve
Cool, then we have a team of two willing to try it out. Iāll set up a Slack channel once we have 3 more willing to work on a web app. The main purpose would be to select one web app and whenever someone is stuck, weād jump in and help eachother!
Iāve tried many builders and Adalo is the closest one in terms of similarity to Bubble, for me. Iāve noticed @ZeroqodeSupport building a plugin for their marketplace, that intrigued me and gave me a good idea of how important Adalo might be or become
Iād kind of be interested in checking out Adalo, but I canāt get past their email/password signup page. (Seriously? Itās 2020 here.)
Bubble app developers: Take note. This is how all of your prospective users feel. (If youāre not enabling at least one OAuth signup method, youāre losing audience.)
Iād be interested to hear about the plugin API experience. (Iāve read the skimpy docs.) But again, what actual skilled developer would sign up for this thing without login with GitHub?
A little slow and anything that you can do after one week of Bubble is hard to do.
Sometimes there are some hacks but very difficult to copy most apps from bubble.
The price tag seems too high for that at the moment (even with react stuff now).
I will put up a video of trying to build a VERY simple directory app in both Glide and Adalo.
Suffice to say neither really worked all that well, which is a shame for the whole nocode community, we need high quality platforms.
Glide - pretty much unusable in the EU, as you canāt do Cookie Consent and they are not interested in GDPR. Even without storing Personal Data it was very flaky. So quick to build and the templated way of building rather than drag and drop is amazingly focused. Editor can slow down a bit at times.
Adalo - As above, map functions are very poor and donāt seem to work at anything like real world numbers. Interface has a familiar feeling to Bubble, and I really like to slightly higher level of elements (tiles, lists, lists with detail etc).
May try Thunkable next.
(Although I actually do need to build this for real, so Bubble is going to be the one).
I like Adalo for native apps, itās really quick to develop and has some cool features. BUT, and this is a huge BUT. They are not GDPR compliant so realistically, if anyone creates an app that is intended to be used by anyone within the EU, you are taking a huge risk!
Shame really as they are cutting off an entire continent by not being GDPR compliant.
I have given up on Adalo for now. Their map function is seriously buggy, and little support.
Worth looking at softr.io as well. Newer in the market so they donāt have a huge amount of functionality, but they have only just released the āWeb Applicationā side so am hoping for good things. The Airtable integration is sweet.