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It sounds very interesting and I hope you will be successful.

How realistic hosting on-premise / in a private cloud without breaking the bank is? The price is "contact us" right now. I sometimes need to develop applications where privacy and GDPR is critical.

The current pricing per developer/user is not announced and I see that as a risk for me. I have been priced out of Retool, they wanted more money than two good full-stack senior developers, so I would like to know if your product is going to make sense for me before I invest time and resources in it. I'm currently using AppSmith.

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Thanks for the kind words!

We will not be pricing per developer or per user, but rather usage-based. We aim to be affordable for applications at scale, because we believe the cost of an internal app should not increase linearly with your headcount.

We’ve designed the system for a few deployment configurations, with independent single-tenant and multi-tenant support on the control plane and data plane. The goal is flexible on-prem deployments that balance customer convenience with regulatory / privacy requirements. At the moment though, we’re focused on our multi-tenant cloud environment and making that as top-notch as possible.

You’ll also be able to eject your app out of Dynaboard. The code is yours, we aim to have the best editor available and convenient serverless hosting so that’s why you’ll stick with us.

Thanks for your answer. I will keep track of your product. The eject feature is very interesting.

Hi speedgoose; I'm founder @ Retool. I'm sorry you were priced out of Retool; we don't want anybody to be that way. We're trying a few pricing experiments now (including self-serve on-prem, not billing per-user, etc.). I tried shooting you an email to a) fix the issue, and b) gather some feedback, but I don't think you have an email listed. Do you mind reaching out to me at david AT retool? Thanks!

Hi, I tried Retool hosted on-prem and I was satisfied with that. My issue was the "per-user" billing, as I can have many users that use the application very seldomly. I will send you an email.

If usage based pricing suits you, check out DronaHQ (https://www.dronahq.com) [Disclaimer: I am with DronaHQ, on-prem coming up next.]

Yup. Critical stuff I always look for is (1) can I self-host it? (2) what’s my off-ramp if they 10x the price or go out of business?

Hi there, I'm a co-founder of Appsmith. I was happy to hear that you use Appsmith. How do you like it so far? Are there features that you are missing today?

Yes I like AppSmith. I can always wish for more features or better things, but between all the no-code/low-code tools I tried recently, AppSmith is the one I decided to use.

Great to hear that. My email is abhishek@appsmith.com if you want to send me feature suggestions. Thanks for using us!

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