Any way to be opt-into the new pricing plans as a beta tester? I would love auto scaling.
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Thank you for the update. Just found this post while searching the Forum for something else. I donāt honestly understand why posts like this arenāt sent out via email to your paid accounts. I never get updates from Bubble about platform changes, pricing changes, etc. Is there something Iām missing? I feel like emails with updates like this one should be automatically sent to all Bubble accounts.
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Agreed. The storage capacity is a huge issue. Weāve wasted probably 2 grand now just trying to find and test better solutions, knowing that storage costs are going to be a huge problem if we use Bubbleās storage. My phoneās Google Photos storage is cheaper than Bubble. Itās ridiculous.
Iād happily use Bubbleās storage even if they charged 2x what AWS charges just for the simplicity of it. Itās a HUGE pain trying to even use solutions like Wasabi, which has an egress ratio limit (egress canāt exceed the total storage size of all stored files).
With AWS/Wasabi or other 3rd-party solutions, a lot of Bubbleās elements and other plugins donāt work well and canāt store files to those servers vs. Bubbleās, which just screws with the storage debacle. And the only reason weāre trying to use these is because Bubbleās storage isnāt even close to the realm of reasonable. I get that they need to make [the investors] money, but charging 20-30x what other solutions charge for storage is insane. We could probably get rid of 4-5 plugins and a whole lot of headaches building & improving our app if Bubble charged a reasonable amount for storage.
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This looks really reasonable to me. WAY better than what Bubble currently has. For simplicityās sake, Iād just use Bubbleās storage if pricing looked like this, and I imagine a lot of others would, too.
Iām not sure why the people who supported the bubble in the early days are hit by a price increase that really affects them heavily, itās completely shocking for me. I was on a $200 plan and now I am looking at the same plan for basically 480 Dollars.
I email support and I get template replies, I think the only way to be heard by bubble is too basically write an article and wait for the founder to realise the reality of their decision to kill off old users. We were promised to be grandfathered in but the option is not there, it was there a while ago whilst on the 200 Plan but not anymore.
I think you should think about the startups that started with you and trusted you to keep things from rising rapidly, but $200 was a lot now itās 480ā¦ the cost is just an unbelievable increase and we spent so much building apps on bubble that I am extremely saddened by this move, as a Startup I would never kill off other startups which supported and believed in early days to ensure growth. I guess ghostwrite an article then hope it wakes emm and josh up a little.
I have to say that Iāve been hearing this type of logic from several people on the forum and it rubs me wrong everytime.
If your startup was an early adopter of bubble years ago and still canāt afford a few hundred dollars for your software and servers then unfortunately you have an unprofitable startup and should consider shutting it down.
Every business on earth raises their rates. Period.
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Did I miss something here?.. Has Bubble announced their new pricing model?
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People cannot walk away from bubble, so if someone cannot afford it because he built on bubble your suggestion is, itās Oki to raise rates more than double, we will weed out the weak startups?
So if a startup is trying to manage costs, trying to break trough a tough period, your suggestion is that bubble is right, even if they made several promises in the early days to protect legacy users and we should shut down, pay up and shut up?
Few companies more than double prices, and then change them again very quickly.
Iām okay with price increases but not 200 to 480, I guess tomorrow 1200 maybe 2900 then, how far till you are weeded out?
Iām suggesting that if you are an early adopter of Bubble which means you have you application for several year but still cant afford to pay bubble a few hundred dollars you should strongly consider the possibility that your business may never be profitable.
I am suggesting that bubble is also trying to stay afloat and their costs are rising significantly as well. They must raise their rates if they want to be around in ten years from now.
Iām suggesting that if you didnāt have bubble you would certainly not be able to afford the true costs of running your own servers and security which is many multiples of the bubble costs.
Just my thoughts.
I will add that Bubble made it very clear that they are working very hard to make sure their pricing structure will work for EVERYONE so that pricing is not the reason people cant use the platform.
Stay patient a little longer while Bubble figures this stuff out and is ready for another round of input from us users so that we can together make bubble the future of development.
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Iām not sure I agree with the logic, Early users were promised to keep the price, and from what I see some still have it. I guess you were not here in the early days when it was basically Em, Josh, and a few devs. Em was handling the Support.
Promises were made, and now they are not kept. You donāt care as you, I reckon, did not have the legacy pricing.
Iāve been on bubble for around 5 or 6 years now, with Early adopters, and a great community we were screaming off rooftops to help this company get built, two bootstrapped guys. Itās a matter of principle, early backer support.
Even if I can pay, we built here based on a lot of promises of safety and now I feel that safety is gone as I simply donāt know whatās next, and if I donāt like it I cannot move away I am lumped here for 500 or 5K.
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I hear you. My suggestion is you reach out to bubble privately and see what they can do for you.
Screaming negativity on the forum about it will certainly not get you the results youāre looking for.
And honestly, yes, when you are now working with millions of customers you should not allow a few early adopters prevent you from becoming a billion dollar company.
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Totally agree