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Writing the exit plan before you need it
Webflow code export omits your CMS, Airtable attachment URLs expire within hours, and no platform exports password hashes. An exit plan is four questions you can answer this afternoon.
The automation run limit nobody reads
Airtable counts an automation run every time a trigger fires, successful or not. On the Team plan that is 25,000 a month per workspace, and the fix is priced per seat.
The front end you rent
Glide and Softr put a usable interface on a spreadsheet in an afternoon. Softr charges $99/mo before you can remove its branding or write custom code, and Core Web Vitals live on the other side of a wall you cannot reach.
Leaving Firebase for Postgres
Firestore charges $0.09 per 100,000 writes against $0.03 per 100,000 reads, and its query language caps OR conditions at 30 disjunctions. Here is what a relational migration actually costs, and when staying put is the better call.
When the internal tool outgrows Retool
Retool's pricing page lists Business at $50 per builder and $15 per internal user each month, and its docs put Git source control on the Enterprise plan only. Both limits bite when the admin panel becomes the operation.
Automation priced per task
Zapier bills one task per step and Make bills one credit per module action, so the automations that run most cost most. A million queue messages on Cloudflare cost $0.80 over the included million.
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