It probably goes without saying that I have my finger on the pulse of the forum aspect of the Bubble community as well as anyone these days, and as much as I dig what you’re doing, Ab, I haven’t seen much from the forum lately that would indicate that folks would be willing to pay for this service. Sure, plenty of folks will geek out about it (and rightly so), but would they take the time to implement it and pay you on an ongoing basis to save tens or hundreds of dollars per year? I doubt it, and if it helps to know this at all, I definitely wouldn’t use it.
Take all of this fanboy talk for what it’s worth, but I don’t think WU is really a thing anymore (with the exception of certain issues that the community has done a fantastic job of documenting for Bubble), and it only seems to pop up from folks who still haven’t gotten past the fact that Bubble changed their pricing model, and it costs more to use the platform these days. That being said, anyone who has been around for a while knows it always should have cost more (and a lot more) to use the platform because of the value it provides. True, Bubble created their own problem by giving it away for free or essentially free in the early days to grow their user base. But, anyone who was paying attention knew that wouldn’t last forever, and of course, it didn’t.
What I find most interesting about what folks like, for example, you and Flusk are doing is what I mentioned above… while it’s going to get a lot of attention, will folks actually pay for your services? I’m guessing you are already seeing that they won’t, hence your question in this thread.
At the end of the day, money that would be going to Bubble is now going to you (and yes, it’s less money, but still), but now folks have introduced another layer into the equation that needs to be managed and that could bring other issues to the table (for example, one third-party platform pushed an update a while back that deleted all of the plugins for some of their users). If you follow the forum at all these days, you know the vast majority of the users are a million miles away from understanding how to integrate Xano or any other third-party platform/service into their app, and if we’re being honest, who’s to say you won’t raise your prices down the line or possibly discontinue your service at some point, and now folks have to be concerned about that stuff, too.
Anyway, I will digress at this point, and apologies for the long-winded reply. I am fascinated by the topic, though, and while I wish you the best with this service, I’m with George in that I don’t think it’s going to be worth it for you in the long run.