I would like a dedicated place to share best practices.
After a few months I learned quite a bit about how to best leverage Adalo (and what to just accept for now). Putting this in just regular ‘help’ threads doesn’t feel right and gets burried really fast.
Also: there are already a lot of very good threads, but they are hard to find for new users. Maybe make a ‘Adalo’s favorites’ section with the best threads. That would help a lot as well.
Cheers on the new job!
Or a thread with Solutions! Good idea
This is a great idea! Thanks for the feedback.
Here are some of my observations, and I think the community would be grateful for, would be a better sense of the bug and feature roadmap. The ideas.adalo.com page doesn’t really give a good idea of what is coming anytime soon - there are planned features that are over a year old (like logical and/or)! There’s no Adalo feedback on how new feature development and bug fixes are going (like IAP subscriptions).
There seems to be multiple bugs discussed in the forums with “no time to resolve” responses. Key features such as being able to identify keys/IDs of records via APIs are missing that make it hard to work with external APIs. There’s just a whole sense that we (at least I) don’t know what’s being worked on, what’s being fixed and what’s coming soon.
There hasn’t been a new Youtube video about a new release in two months (and that was just for adding a signature).
You guys raised $8M earlier this year, but it seems developed has slowed down rather than sped up!
Sorry if I’m the only one that feels this way, but you asked 
Thank you so much for that feedback, @paulh! Don’t apologize. These are the things I want to know. Feedback makes us better.
I’m sorry you feel that we’ve slowed down. What we’ve done with that $8M is hire lots of people! We’ve also been reworking our processes from the ground up while focusing on bugs and performance. These are behind-the-scenes projects that make a huge difference, but aren’t as public facing, so they can easily go unnoticed by many. It’s totally understandable that it seems like we’ve been absent.
We’ve also been doing some research with our makers to make sure we’re on track to build the things that help them the most. We are about to get started on all the things listed on ideas.adalo.com (new location features, increasing marketplace components, etc.)
I recommend following @Erik on Twitter and Visual Dev Studios. They both keep people up to date. A recent thread from Erik that lays out a lot of great stuff can be found here.
Thanks Jesse. That is helpful. But there’s only four items in planned and only two under in-progress. That’s not that helpful unless that’s really all there is? There’s currently ~900 open requests!
While I understand the company can’t talk about confidential things and I know that putting timelines on features is a bad idea, I think increased communications about bug fixes and planned features and what their statuses are (beyond in progress or planned) would be super helpful.
That is good feedback but misses a lot of context. Hopefully, I can share a little light here.
Last year Adalo grew 10x and that created a lot of issues - performance etc, really suffered. Basically, the ideas board ground to a halt while they focused on fixing fundamental platform issues. This was shared, albeit really not well in the Adalo’s Performance Updates series.
Then, Adalo raised their big funding round, but that had the opposite effect everyone expected in the short term - again, everything grounded to a halt while they focus on onboarding new team members and getting everyone up to speed.
I can say they’ve been working on a lot of things behind the scenes, setting things up for future platform growth. Again, that information hasn’t been publicly shared, but note there’s a lot that goes into the platform itself, not just new features (moving from Heroku to AWS for instance).
Lastly, @joshjohnson has just been hired as head of product. He’s realigned the roadmap and will be handling product going forward. I think his goal is to have the ideas board to be significantly more accurate and have items move through it faster. So sure, there might be only four things as active, but what’s the point of having more if the team isn’t actively working on them? And if every few weeks there are new items, then that’s pretty good.
Note - I don’t work for Adalo. I just spend all day on the platform 
Just to add here:
Earlier in the year, Adalo started with around ~18 employees. Now, they have around 29 employees.
You can find more information about the team here. (also, don’t quote me on this, I don’t know if they’re the exact numbers)
Thanks Erik! That’s definitely my intention. We’re about to start a new sprint next week that will pull in some of the stuff from Planned into In Progress, then we’ll add some more stuff to Planned. Stay tuned!
Hi @adalojosh. I was wondering if you an the Adalo team could create a video upload component for adalo 
This is critical for most apps being made in Adalo. Thanks
Trying not to put any words in your mouth
Oops, sorry. Looks like I didn’t read that 
Another Idea is that ability to reply a message with any amount of words. Like Glide Community. But here we need 20 characters to send a message. It would be great 
if we can type any amount of words and send the message.
Thank you
Thanks Dilon! Done 
Great
Oh wow. This is great.
Thanks a lot Jesse
Hi
Sorry that was just a test.
I’ll keep my eye on this. I’m not sure if it was limited for a reason. But if I start seeing a bunch of one word responses that aren’t beneficial, we may need to bring the limit back up. Our goal is to have helpful engagement. One word responses usually aren’t helpful in most posts, unless someone asks a yes or no question.
Yeah, It really makes sense.