Hi there, wappler is a great product, we all know this and it’s value increases if the community of people who have invested in learning to use it increases.
The product deserves to be known and growing the community is a win win in my opinion.
Wappler has 3 major users, developers looking for an easier and faster way to get things done, designers who want to up their game into the developers world without the need for coding and total newbies trying to be full stack.
All these people have one thing in common, they all need time to learn the platform. Most developers are used to open source like laravel etc and an experience with wappler will hook them for sure but they need to invest the time to learn it.
Wappler shines when it comes to database driven applications, to experience the true power of wappler, you need to be able to use it’s awesome power for dynamic application development. Again you need time to learn it. The question is these learning phase is at who’s cost, currently to use wappler for it real worth which is in database driven application, you must subscribe for pro which is not expensive for some people but on the high side for some other people. Developers immediately see the value since they have paid projects. This is not so with others.
I think the team should look into a model where anyone can use the complete power of the platform for learning at no cost. Meaning you can download, have a full experience without being limited by cost.
I don’t have a fully formed idea of how to do this while you make more money but I think I have something that you can work with as a base idea.
My rough idea is that you have a practice mode in wappler. In this mode users can download, join the community and are able to create a single project using the full power of wappler. This project will be limited to working only on the localhost of the single computer where it is installed and you cannot export it out, you might not even give access to code view etc. Do all what you have to do so that the project cannot be used for live deployment.
This way you increase the people in the top of your adoption funnel across all segments from developers to total newbies, alot of students world wide can start learning to use it and you will get more conversions on a regular basis.
This is really not a feature request since it does not benefit existing subscribers but a way I feel the community can grow. People, what do you think?
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