Hi All.
I have been a developer since school, playing around with various technologies and platforms - nothing fancy though, just the regular ones - PHP, ASP, C#, Java, MSSQL, MySQL and otheres. Before Wappler, I was either using Visual Studio IDE for .NET stuff or Notepad etc for PHP.
@nshkrsh and I started our company in 2015 and had been using VS or PHP for everything in the beginning. We also divulged into Webflow for the UI end of things for a couple years, before we found Wappler in December 2018.
I had never used Bootstrap before. Had never used Dreamweaver. Never ever heard of DMXZone.
Getting on board with Wappler with the limited docs was a challenge. I took on a small project with a single pager front-end and a back-end admin panel with a few pages and not too complex functionality.
In initial days, I was not doing very well with Wappler and was expecting it to take ~50% more time than if I would have used my previous tools. But, when I started on the back end, I pretty much saved 70% of my time there!! 
So, overall I ended up putting in about 10-15% extra time with Wappler, because I was learning and building. The time saved in back-end was enough for us to ditch Webflow and to struggle and learn Bootstrap a bit more and use only Wappler for our projects going forward.
Over the course of few more months, we worked on few more projects, learned a lot more and started to feel a bit more comfortable. Later we got a project (which is still on-going 
) via community here. That helped us make use of many more components of Wappler (we still haven’t used all in the past two years) and understand a few inner workings too. This project has evolved into a huge complex application which someone might not even believe is built on Wappler if shown to them now (although we can’t 
). Same can be said for some of our other Wappler projects too.
The past two years with Wappler have been great 
and we are still learning things (still docs are lacking) about Wappler and making our projects better.
I would like to thank the Wappler team for their support here in community, and for implementing great ideas in Wappler and making it feel like a much more mature product in the past two years.
Many other community members have been really helpful too - weather it is providing help and solutions on our posts, or posting bugs and how-to-s from their experiences which have been helpful to us.
We as a team have tried to help a few of the members too and have also shared our experience as a paid service with one-on-one sessions (DM @nshkrsh for details. #shameless-plug 
).
We have added a few more clients and grown our team a little in the past two years too. And are happy to say that our focus is completely on delivering secure, easy and good web apps via Wappler 
.
A wishlist for Wappler team in 2021:
- Add more people to the team. Mainly for support and docs.
- Take a backseat on weekly feature updates and shift resources towards support and cleaning up the community’s stale posts and pending bug fixes. (I assume the team has a road map on features they wish to add, but if it can be adjusted…)
- Setup weekly updates to be something like-
1st Week: Release Feature updates.
2nd & 3rd Week: Focus on Bug fixes, community clean up, work on other feature updates in beta channel (ref. point 5).
4th Week: Focus on creating missing docs and new docs for next week’s feature update. (New docs have been usually on-point with new features since past few months
). - Deliver on the feature requests as per votes.
- Create a separate beta channel - similar to Windows Insider program kind of thing. The experimental toggle is cool too, but that usually ends up breaking things if switched on accidentally.
- A better feature tracking and bug tracking tool other than community. (Sadly, don’t have any suggestions for this.)
- A voting mechanism on features you guys plan to add so it can be prioritized better based on what devs might actually need.
DISCLAIMER: The above list is based on my limited knowledge of software development and experience with Wappler.
Lastly, a big THANK YOU to team Wappler for thinking, building and maintaining this amazing idea of an open, visual and low-code platform for web development 
. Hope this keeps improving and continues to build towards a more capable IDE for web & mobile app development.
Looking at George’s Medium post about Wappler’s year in review, I realised how much was added to Wappler in just a year and how quickly we get accustomed to it and start taking it for granted. Hence decided to write this post.
Happy New Year 2021 Everyone. 
P.S. It would take about 10 days to re-do the first project that I built on Wappler which 2 years ago took about 2 months to complete. From scratch. And I can deliver a better UX too.
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