Helping each other understand WUs and optimizing our apps

Great job.

The tiers are add ons. You will need the Starter plan ($32) + Tier 3 ($299) = $331

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Maybe that will help your situation

@vascolucci I have tried your calculator real quick, and maybe this is my optimistic side hoping they make the pricing similar to what your calculator outputs, but it makes sense! , the pricing that I got at the end is totally reasonable "more than I am paying now by 70%, but totally ok for my business model.

But at the same time, I think no matter what everyone is leaving sooner or later, either right now or once we do the migration process to another tech stack within the coming 12 months.

It is unfortunately not trustworthy anymore.

I won’t go through many details about my own story, but what happened was a dream crusher for me.

Simple but important question that i’d appreciate any help understanding…

If my app is currently using nearly 300,000 workflows with just myself as a user (live, but testing still), do I need to multiply that for every single user/ visitor? or not?

If so, and if i had 100,000 visitors in a month, that would then cost me 30 BILLION WU units. ??

Surely this can not be right? have I misunderstood something fundamental or am I simply trapped in a bad dream?

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I’m sorry but if your user are doing the same activity as you, you can multiply… with what we now so far.

That’s insane if you are right. The ā€œactivityā€ being done is loading a page which shows a list of 80 items in a repeating group. (lazy load so not even showing those items all at once).

This HAS to be a broken counting system, surely. I refuse to believe this could be intentional.

My theory is there is a bug in Bubble’s metrics, which this data supports. We shall see later today…

150k per month on the agency plan.

Shares between two users.

So 75k per month each while developing and testing.

But you get 8Gb file storage…that you don’t need during development.

Makes no sense. Am I missing something.

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I don’t think you’re missing something @NigelG, but Bubble surely does.

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I can splurge that in a day trying to parse stuff.

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I’ve been trying to understand the whole thing the last couple days, but as much as I want to, I can’t.

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I wish Bubble add opportunities to:

  1. filter workload usage by page. Currently it is a pain in "ananass":truncated from end to 3, we can drill down to a specific page for ā€œPage loadā€ metric, but not for WFs.
  2. compare at least 2 pages in terms of workload. For example, during ā€œoptimisationā€ we will have to duplicate page A into page B and play with different WF and Data setups to measure changes in WUs and performance. And it would be great to see both pages A and B workload charts side-by-side.
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lets hope that @emmanuel after investigation lets us know the calculations of the WU’s will be improved :slight_smile:

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Does anyone have any data on search WU usage be that bubble /bubble + algolia / bubble + xano?

Currently finding search WU usage to be prohibitively expensive.

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@JeremySimpson anything that calls an external API server to server is ridiculously expensive (e.g., Bubble wants to charge me about $300/mo for a workflow that pings my own GCF endpoint and ingest the response. On the GCF side of things, these calls cost me zero (usually) or amounts up to 3 cents per month). So… :man_shrugging:

Aside: While I haven’t checked it, presumably native Bubble functionality such as using Geographic Addresses, which aren’t so much a datatype as a built-in API call to Google geolocation API suffer from the same uplift problem.

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Any idea if database operations done on the backend, e.g. inserting or deleting database rows contribute to WU?

Yup. Heavily taxed.

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Thanks… geez, i better start clearing what i need to clear now :sweat_smile:

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