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I understand. Maybe a niche for you, that might be interesting to explore,from my latest personal experience: Managing a medical business, including a combined portal for patients and providers.

For the patients, you might need submission process, you might need a place for people to see or cancel their next appointments, fill out a form or upload some pictures from other, while also making this information available internally, with doctors being able to document therapies and such.

Nothing fancy; I would hardly call it "build anything", it's all fairly CRUDy and on the face could be very effectively handled by all retool-alikes. (In fact budibase for example could have easily filled the need from a technical standpoint – but having to pay xx$ indefinitely per "customer" just does not work out, when you see most of them only once a year and maybe only once total, while having to keep records for many years.)



That's an interesting use case. Thanks for sharing. I think I understand your point better after reading this. I agree that having to pay xx$ indefinitely for presumably many end users who will only fill up the form once (or very rarely) doesn't make sense. We don't have a solution to this just yet, but I have a couple of ideas on how to tackle this.

PS. CRUDy sounds like a fun and quite literal name for an app builder!




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