»The end of the Starter Plan
When we created Adaptable, we wanted to make it easy for developers to try out the platform and to run their smaller apps for free in the hope that many devs would then choose Adaptable for their more important apps too. We also wanted to give back to the community by supporting students and others just starting their development journey.
We're thankful for all the many thousands of you that have chosen Adaptable, and especially to those that have continued to trust Adaptable to run and scale your most important apps.
But over time, we've learned that there are a very large number of people who are only looking for free compute resources, most of whom aren't even developers. As a small, developer-owned company, we don't have the tens or hundreds of millions of dollars of venture capital to burn on abusers and others that will never become our customers.
So we've made the very difficult decision to end our free Starter Plan on September 23, 2024.
This change will allow us to continue investing in Adaptable to build a better platform for you.
»Discounted Build Plan Upgrades
As a thank you to our Starter Plan customers, existing apps can upgrade to the Build Plan for just USD $1 per month for the first 3 months.
Take advantage of this offer before October 7.
»New Usage Credit on Team Plan
For those customers that have a larger number of small apps, the Team Plan may be the best upgrade path for you. The Team Plan not only allows you to collaborate with your team members but also has no per-app fee and no limit on the number of apps.
Additionally, we’re adding a USD $5 per month resource usage credit to that plan, with no end date.
»Timeline: What will happen to Starter Plan apps?
September 23, 2024: On this date, all apps that are not on a paid plan will be paused and will stop serving traffic. Apps can still be upgraded to a paid plan and restored with no loss of data during this period.
October 7, 2024: On this date, all remaining apps that are not on a paid plan will be permanently deleted, including all database data.
After this date, data from these apps can no longer be recovered.
»Exporting database data
Although we hope many of you decide to stay with Adaptable and remain customers. We understand some may not be able to.
If you need to export your data from an Adaptable database, you can use your database's native backup and restore tools to accomplish this. For example, you can use mongodump or pg_dump to export MongoDB and PostgreSQL, respectively.
You can find your database's connection string to use with these tools by going to your App Status page, clicking on the Resources tab, then under Databases, click Connection Information.
»Looking forward
We're looking forward to rolling out some of the most requested features and improvements more quickly and making Adaptable the best place to run your apps. If you have feedback for us on this change or on how we can make Adaptable better for you, please reach out via support chat or to support@adaptable.io.
Thanks for being Adaptable customers.
Manish and Mark
Founders