I’ve been spending the last year trying to reduce my workload usage of my app, but the forced new plans that take effect in Oct of this year is going to destroy me.
I run a volunteer group to help people in the animation community, and I was so excited to find Bubble where I could create an app for the community and give them all these amazing features that would not break the bank. I was paying under $30/month to run my app.
With the new pricing change, I realized it was going to be a challenge. I was at around 700k workload units per month. I was able to get in touch with Bubble, and they helped me optimize some things, but I’m still hitting around 400k/month.
I looked at the options, and both options are not great due to the cost of the Workload overages. As my group grows those costs are only going to go up, and the sad thing is I don’t really have that many active users. I wish my app got more activity, but with these prices, I would be afraid to get more activity on the app. The biggest workload usage comes from sending a newsletter each week, and the event notification emails. Without these would ruin the group I’ve spent years building. I’ve also invested so much time learning Bubble and building this app that I really don’t have any options to move to something else, so I really feel stuck, and like Bubble stabbed me in that back here.
I don’t understand why sending emails takes so much workload units. It’s only 600 emails which does not seem like a lot to me.
I’ve tried before, but any suggestions on what I can do?
Looking at recent ones it shows the event emails being the biggest, and this one action seems to be a lot. I added this action to try and cut down on the multiple sorting it was doing which seemed to cost me more wu.
You can tell me that, but unless there is an easy way to do it otherwise without it making my life a pain then not sure that will help. This group is something I do on the side, so having to put a newsletter together seperatly would be a pain. I have multiple events, job postings, other things that pull information from the app, and creates the newsletters without me having to do much work. If you have a suggestion to do all that without adding extra work I’m all ears.
Make an API that gets your users emails (assuming you have a check if they want a newsletter), and turns it into JSON. use a JSON to CSV converter. Upload that to mailchimp or any other newsletter service.
I don’t know how to create an API. Mailchimp is an added cost, we used to use MailChimp, and it’s more then just email addresses I would need to transfer over, I would have to recreate all the events and other information from the app.
I use the “rich postmark” plugin from zerocode which works great. You can send in bulk, I do 400 at a time. It doesn’t consume much Wu at all. Obviously you’d need a postmark account, but they are great so i highly recommend.
I’m not sending with Bubble I’m sending with Postmark. Its the send the data to Postmark is what’s costing the wu, so sending to another service like MailChimp I don’t see how that’s solving the issue.
MailChimp is just an example. You want to submit the task and have the mailserver do the rest. You shouldn’t need to send out an individual email through bubble. Do not send out a newsletter on a list is basically what I’m getting at.
If you can do that with MailChimp could I not also do that with Postmark? Is there a way to send one action to send to a list with Postmark? The only way I’m aware is to send one at a time.
Not sure what this @dcitellytraining is on, but if you want to continue the conversation you can join my Discord or shoot me a DM. I’d love to help you get started with the process.
apply the magic 