Can't publish to live

[mariana.lima]

Hi there I am new on Bubble and I just finished a microsite and need to publish but every time I try to it says my plan does not allows me to do so. I thought is was a free nocode tool can someone explain?

thankss

[lantzgould]

You’ll need to choose a paid plan that fits your needs to be able to push live.

Bubble Pricing

[Dracut]

Hey!

You can read an announcement posted here:

Changes to our free plan

Hello everyone, Today we’re announcing some changes to our free plan. These changes only affect new apps created going forward as of today, February 26, 2021; apps that are currently on the Hobby plan are not impacted. After looking at usage and conversion data, we’ve come to the conclusion that we need to limit a little more what free apps can do. Our goal remains to enable people to keep learning Bubble for free and to be able to have free apps to test things, but in order to expand our abil…

Sadly, the free plan was not cost-efficient for Bubble, thus they were forced to unfortunately limit it’s capabilities. Bubble still has the mindset of a free no-code tool, and that is why they kept the free plan. You can still develop your system up to a small MVP / proof of concept, and then upgrade to unlock the features needed for a fully-functioning web application. The free plan is now a “in development” plan is how I like to think of it.

Lately, Bubble has mentioned they are doing A/B testing of new pricing models, and a lower-tier pricing model may be coming soon, hopefully. This lower tier will likely have very basics, such as ability to deploy live and a custom domain, and that is likely all.

That is speculation.

I do hope to see a lower-tier at some point, but for now, we can develop and play on the free plans, however as @johnny points out in the wonderful thread linked below, it’s not financially feasible to have the free plan they once did.

Changes to our free plan

Not exactly… there look to be many SaaS apps around and many different businesses around Bubble. For example, Zeroqode is still a thing, AirDev is still a thing, Nocodeminute is a thing, etc. If you’re really considering on starting a business, with no technical skills you still need to either 1. find a technical co-founder 2. pay for someone else to do it for you using code, or 3. Head over to a platform like Bubble which is pretty affordable in the US and build it all yourself without code. P…

[kheimstead982]

Here’s another example of why this was a completely stupid change for bubble. All it’s going to do is defer people from using it.

[lantzgould]

@kheimstead982 Life isn’t free, and neither is a running a business.

Based on the 1,115,838 Bubblers, I’d disagree. For what Bubble provides in value, you can’t find elsewhere.

[jared.gibb]

I agree. I’d love to know how much bubble donates each month for these free users resources. All of the free apps just sitting there. I bet it’s surprising.

[rpetribu]

I assume you work for free as well

[mariana.lima]

Thanks for all the update I totally did not knew that I would need a paid plan now since was a free thing months ago.
I get your guys point related to be free to use and business process not going to go further on this discussion though

thanks for all

[mariana.lima]

thanks