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Things have changed quite a bit actually! 1. Forms are so much better with them being integrated into interfaces now. You CAN create sections or "groups" as Airtable calls them. They're pretty nice! 2. Two-way sync was annoying at first if you had linked records. Now, you can sync those too and that's been a big addition. I haven't had any issues recently. 3. Still about the same for document creation. I'm still using Zapier for it. I wish you could create custom tables in a document natively in Airtable rather than needing Zapier for it.

Ehh. I don't think I agree with that about cold outreach. Communities and Media I would say would be the best ROI in terms of time spent. B2B definitely will get you to $250k faster most times. I didn't track B2C vs B2B but that's an interesting datapoint to dig deeper on. They will diversify offerings to an extent. Once they have a signature product though, they didn't seem to move much. Slight adjustments on the edges I would argue.

@MatthewGira 6 businesses and their average time to $250k was 6 months. I mean once you have a base level of income to build a business from and $250k is a good base level, the ability to change your focus with that first key stream of income is significant. Nathan Barry has talked about how the base level of income around $250k allowed him to start his SAAS which basically put him in the centimillionaire's club. He grew drip initially by cold outreach, the cold outreach was to people in the social media world that added fuel to his fire, but cold outreach works. He started in the blogging world and he understood it, but the community he built in the blogging niche did not mean he did not use cold outreach to build Drip. Is there a value in media and communities, or social media marketing? Yes, but if you have significant revenue it is easy to outsource that effort in a phase two of business growth and development. This is precisely the model Alex Hermozi followed. He built his key successes early on in B2B with cold outreach. Years later he added social media to fuel the fire. Community then became his third leg of marketing.

The B2B cold outreach to broader B2C marketing strategy is not a new phenomenon for bootstrappers either, it is the method Walt Disney used to build that iconic company. I mean they started out with cold outreach to Kansas City theater owners making shorts on commission for their theaters, then moved on to commissioned shorts for other studios, before creating Steamboat Willie in house and marketing it themselves with the connections they had developed with theater owners through years of networking in the business. Disney was the quintessential bootstrapped film studio.

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Facebook or Discord are probably your best bets for a free option.

Give it a shot! You get a free account via Kit!

Allea is crushing it for sure!

Interesting. Didn’t realize all of that. Not sure why that would have disappeared. Sorry I’m not much help there.

@ no problem! Their support email is not answering. Posts on public forums about this are being obscured by moderators as off-topic. I am quite sure they were in the stock market and now they are gone! Very suspicious!

Neither Circle or Mighty Networks will do all of that natively. They can do livestreams in the platform, but that's it. If you want everyone to have the ability to share in the tool, I would just use Zoom. Both can integrate with Zoom nicely. Streamyard would be another tool to look at. For ease, it's probably easiest to just use Zoom and have it be in the community first and then just post a recording to other social media channels. To live stream and have everyone in the audience involved all at once is pretty tricky.

@@MatthewGira Thanks. We're using Zoom now, but it would be great to have it all integrated. We basically have two different elements, one is small groups coming together to chat, where we would want everyone to be able to participate, then another which is one person presenting with everyone else on mute, but our audience really like to be able to see each other during the sessions. These second are the ones that would be streamed out to other social media.

Yeah, you do have a 3rd party affiliate program with Mighty. I know they have a big discount with one of them that they integrate with though. Both platforms technically could go down, but that’s the case for any software. Unless it’s a super early startup, I don’t stress about it. Both to my knowledge are growing and operating healthily. I don’t see either going anywhere any time soon.

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Both have been changing a lot these last few months! Eventually I think both will be even easier to use :)

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Good question! This wasn't super obvious to me, but I found some answers from their forums. Circle says they're not tracking it super closely, so if it's over by a little in a month, they probably won't say anything. If it's consecutively over, they'll reach out and figure out a solution. That could mean deleting some old posts to get back under or upgrading storage space. Potentially just upgrading storage space, not the overall plan itself. Maybe a $5-10/month extra for extra storage. Mighty Networks I believe is the same way. I don't think they're tracking it that closely and would operate under similar conditions.

Flutterflow has a "bug detector" of sorts built in, so you'll see where the issues are. Adalo and Glide don't have as much complexity, so bugs really won't be an issue there. Depends if you're going to the app stores to publish. If you are, they do have yearly costs for about $100/year. If you're not going to the app stores, there's no extra cost. You can just share the link to your app via the tool you chose.