Hi All,
First off, thanks for all of the love we’ve been getting, deeply appreciated.
There’s something that has been bothering me and that I wanted to address, and even call ourselves out on:
In building tools for other creators it’s incredibly important to me (and us) to:
- not waste other’s time
- provide transparency
- deliver on promises
We started out building components because it was enjoyable and because we hoped to expand Adalo’s capabilities.
While there has been much success there are also a few challenges, mostly, breaking changes as Adalo upgrades.
Other noted gaps between where we are and what we hoped:
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we haven’t found a sustainable way to monetize our components, the calculated revenue doesn’t cover the work required to offer a paid product to the standards we would need to hit
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though they are open source, there has been next to no community collaboration and it seems by large, when an issue occurs, people ask us to fix it (we had hoped for at least some momentum outside of what we generate to close the gap).
All this has left us with regular inbound support requests that essentially would require many (expensive) dev hours to troubleshoot and respond, and we just aren’t able to do it.
What we would love
- more community engagement (sweat contribution not just love)
- better visibility: we want you to know which components are experiencing bugs, and if workarounds have been found.
The best way I can think to do this is to centralize that information.
To create a better experience for everyone, which includes better visibility…
Going forward:
- Please report all bugs via github using the issues tab. That way, your request will be visibile to others who will have better information before attempting to use the component.
- You can find the repo here: PragmaFlow · GitHub
- or via https://adalo.pragmaflowservers.com/install-component
- If you find a workaround to a known bug please report it there too. We’ll update the readme’s with highlights and need-to-knows.
The auto-closing feature of this forum makes it not-ideal for this task and so with the goal of creating a better and more cohesive experience, we will be shifting our attention from this forum and from email requests to github issues.
We welcome questions and feedback on this move, which we hope will better serve everyone.