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Thank You!

Great question! Most tools in the market today limit the number of users that can use the apps that you build or are priced per user making it cost prohibitive to build user-facing apps.

Canonic's pricing is based on the number of collaborators that are building on Canonic. The number of users that can use the apps that you build is unlimited across all our plans.

Hope that helps!

Thank you for your kind words.

I've personally gone down that rabbit hole as well, especially when you're looking to get started quickly.

As for the pricing, our plans are to make it usage based. The goal is to have an unlimited time free-tier (with reasonable usage restrictions) along with paid individual/team/enterprise plans.

Unfortunately, our system was having some issues, so we missed out on your feedback, I'd be really grateful if you could drop us an email at hello@canonic.dev and we can take the conversation forward!

Thank you

We are actively working on the FF bugs, the experience is quite non-ideal on it. Hoping to get it sorted asap.

Airtable is amazing and ️ fast for smaller projects, however like you mentioned, we want to be more comprehensive and scalable. One big differentiator there is that we support adding custom endpoints and APIs that can include custom business logic as well.

We realise the documentation is a bit sparse around auth login and permissions. I'll make sure the documentation is updated soon for the same with a guide and examples.

Thank you for your feedback!

Thank you for your detailed feedback,

Out of the ones mentioned, we are probably closest to Bubble. However, as you rightly said we are currently focused on the backend API building problem.

As we've been pivoting to be a more citizen-first non-tech friendly platform, frontend on Canonic is something we have been discussing and debating frequently.

The main concern with a frontend builder for us is the need for it to truly be as close to a design tool as possible. The frontend of an application frequently ends up being unique to accommodate branding and creative freedom and becomes hard to fit in a traditional drag-n-drop tool. We just want to make sure, we are truly solving that problem and not just making another frontend builder that people have to wrangle to get their designs to fit.

As for lock-in, we do want to avoid it all costs and our working on strategies and features that would allow you to migrate in and out of Canonic with ease.

Currently, Canonic is a great fit for anyone who wants to build a backends quickly and without writing code. Some level of technical know-how is, however, required. We do hope to eliminate that soon.

P.S. Canonic plans to have a free forever plan for getting started and hobbyist projects

That's certainly weird. While we look into it, you can signup directly at https://app.canonic.dev/signup

Thanks for trying it out!

We have been experiencing some issues on Firefox, should get sorted in the next 24 hours.

XgeneCloud looks slick! Will definitely give it a go, thank you for sharing it across

Thank you! Coming soon :)

That's the best compliment we've heard all day :)

Yes! We're similar to Hasura at first glance given the similarities with which we approach content modeling.

The vision is to reduce the complexity (and terminology) down to a point where one would need no prior knowledge of engineering to actually apply their business logic. We’ve been slowly pivoting towards citizen first development and the goal is to get there sooner or later!

Hasura on the other hand, I feel offers a superior developer experience but that comes at the cost of alienating non-technical/citizen developers. Backend knowledge still plays a pivotal role in how well you can use Hasura.

That's fantastic to hear :)

I'm so glad you liked it and thank you so much for your feedback! We are working very hard to ensure that the onboarding is smooth and the learning curve flat :)

Thank you so much for going through the platform. We've just launched and sadly some bugs sneaked through. We are actively working on the fixes and they should be out asap.

Lock-ins have been our biggest concern here at Canonic. We wanted to ensure that if the user wanted to move/integrate with different services, that experience be as seamless as possible. We are exploring both OpenAPI and GraphQL schema export options. Definitely on the roadmap!

Haha now that you mention it, it does sound a little odd! Will go through the content again. Thank you so much for your feedback :)

The good kind of bad problem! We're actively on it, we are hoping to restore everything back to asap. Apologies.

Thank you for taking some time to check it out. We are actively working on that and will have that out soon :)

The documentation is based on Gatsby!

We're sorry you feel that way! We're just getting started, we hope to get there soon :)

You make a really valid point. We've been testing the product by putting it out there to get feedback and validation, and then work on our pricing strategy based on the positioning we take. Given our architecture, one of our aims was to offer a free forever plan, the other was to have an eject strategy so that you can take you project with you as a complete and functional code repository.

We feel that currently, the learning curve is pretty minimal. Given the hours it'll save one from coding, maintaining and bug fixing. However, we will definitely keep this in mind when thinking ahead.

Thank you so much for the feedback!