I want to create a social media app, like Facebook, and make money by selling banner spaces or posts that are viewed by users. Is this possible on Adalo?
And I also want to create a dating app, like Tinder, and make money by selling subscriptions to users. Is this possible on Adalo?
Yes it’s possible. Just be careful with the database. Once you have a lot of records in database, the application will be very slow and the users will uninstall it. If you want, write me in PM and I will give you some tips on how to avoid the speed problem.
If you plan to store images i would suggest looking into external storage to keep speed up and use pragmaflow’s data preloader to prevent excessive wait times
I have a social media app with 1.000+ users and few Hundreds of posts, doesn’t matter that I use an external database because the app is still very slow…
The only thing that can make the app faster is to make it simple, load a low number of records in a list, avoid the actiune with database, avoid many relationships.
That’s some tips I learned in my experience with Adalo.
Apps on Adalo are hosted by Adalo? I have my own hosting on which I’m hosting my current websites. Is it possible to host my own Adalo apps? Maybe this can tackle the speed problem?
Xano give you possibility to select the server location, and that’s a very good one because the speed of the app depends of the distance from user and servers.
I don’t use Adalo as backend for any collection. I use external users in Xano.
Actually I use this for 1 month ago for a e-commerce app that have 1500+ records and is working well.
I gave up social media because I launched the project in March and I didn’t have much experience at the time of launch, and it was an unexpected increase and everything disappeared because of Adalo and the speed.
Now, I have a lot of experience but I don’t have time to focus on my social media project and to fix it because I have another big projects in progress.
you can’t install it using the previous installer but you can use the terminal to install via github with the git commands and adalo’s developers mode
@Expert is correct. The marketplace installer went offline again on Friday, we will bring it up again this week if Adalo does not finish their installer.
The data preloader did break at one point last week but we repaired it an hour after it was first reported to us.