Minimizing Workload Units

atefelghazaly · 2024-07-14T10:40:26.363Z

I am building a B2C app using bubble, and I am nearly done with it, but I only just found out about workload units. I have tested my app and it looks like the workload units pricing will cause the project to lose. I read online that I can use Xano and connect it to my app in order to bypass the workload units being used by bubble. Is that true? and if so Can someone give me their review please.

I am also seriously considering switching to Webweb + Xano instead of Bubble.

georgecollier · 2024-07-14T10:50:53.094Z

If your app costs more WU than it does in revenue, and your app costs more than a couple of dollars a month, then it’s likely due to your build practices and can be optimised.

emir.ozgun · 2024-07-14T11:21:03.114Z

Very bad take

boston85719 · 2024-07-14T11:24:54.619Z

atefelghazaly:

I read online that I can use Xano and connect it to my app in order to bypass the workload units being used by bubble. Is that true?

I’m not sure if that is entirely true. If you use the Xano plugin which @jared.gibb could speak more informatively on, I believe it uses API calls in the client browser which Bubble I do think likely still charges for as an API call and data being returned from an API. However, I believe the major reason to use an external database like Xano, is not to bypass WUs for creating/modifying/deleting/fetching data, but more to bypass the WUs used in backend workflows that process the data as that can be handled by Xano.

You can schedule a paid session with me if you want to explore ways to optimize your Bubble application to reduce the WUs.

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georgecollier · 2024-07-14T11:35:29.615Z

emir.ozgun:

Very bad take

It’s certainly a take that a minority could disagree with and there are a couple of exceptions for, but it would be rare for a well built SaaS to cost more than the subscription revenue. If WU used is high because users use the app all day, you charge more… and if your users aren’t converting to paid enough to pay for the free trial users, there is probably something wrong with the product!

senecadatabase · 2024-07-14T12:21:21.964Z

When I get my app done, which hopefully will be within a month, I’m going to definitely have you review it for WUs.

I’ve been building it for about a year now and every time I think I understand how to use the best practices to build in Bubble I realize I don’t really know that much

It seems like every time I work on it I see things I had done previously and wonder what I was thinking.

I purposely didn’t use a template because I wanted to learn everything from the ground up.

Anyway, you’re obviously good at what you do. And I’m going to ask you for a review.

Also, @georgecollier, I’m going to have him review my app for privacy issues because he obviously knows his stuff when it comes to that.

I’m thinking realistically it probably takes at least a couple of years to really consider myself half decent at using Bubble.

boston85719 · 2024-07-14T12:28:38.836Z

senecadatabase:

It seems like every time I work on it I see things I had done previously and wonder what I was thinking.

hahahah…sometimes I see things I did last year or even last month and think that.

senecadatabase:

I’m thinking realistically it probably takes at least a couple of years to really consider myself half decent at using Bubble.

I was building full time for myself over 2 years before I felt I was good enough to charge other people. When I consider myself today, 6.5 years of building full time, it is night and day compared to what I knew after 4.5 years, and feels like I knew nothing after the first 2 years.

georgecollier · 2024-07-14T13:00:26.175Z

boston85719:

6.5 years of building full time, it is night and day compared to what I knew after 4.5 years, and feels like I knew nothing after the first 2 years.

Make it to ten years and maybe you can help us understand WU

senecadatabase · 2024-07-14T14:33:00.716Z

I’m really proud of you and others who have been with Bubble as long as you have.

I can only imagine the things you know that others are still learning.

I would hope that Bubble would put together a group of experienced Bubblers and use them to help guide their ‘new ideas’. Where else to get good advice but from those who’ve been around for so long?

emir.ozgun · 2024-07-14T14:35:50.041Z

georgecollier:

there is probably something wrong with the product

Yes don’t make it complex , if product is bad meaning doesn’t worth anything

georgecollier:

then it’s likely due to your build practices and can be optimised.

than it is not a optimization problem