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Who maintains it after you build it
A small team's real ongoing cost for a custom stack in 2026: about $30/month of Cloudflare Workers and Supabase, plus a Node LTS bump you can schedule a year out.
Reading the SLA before you need it
Webflow's SLA, rewritten on 1 August 2026, pays 2% of your monthly fee per qualifying outage and only counts downtime past thirty consecutive minutes. The 15 September incident on hosted sites would have paid nothing.
The form submissions you forgot you were renting
Webflow caps the free Starter plan at 50 lifetime form submissions and tells you outright that an exported site cannot collect submissions at all. The form is the unglamorous part of leaving a no-code stack, and usually the slowest.
The SEO work the platform will not let you do
Webflow caps its redirect table at a recommended 1,000 rules because every rule ships in manifest.json, and Bubble's canonical tag is a checkbox you cannot author. Rendering control is SEO control.
Why a custom build stopped taking six months
DORA's 2025 survey of nearly 5,000 professionals found 90% now use AI at work and, for the first time, a positive link to delivery throughput. The evidence on how much faster custom builds got is messier than either side of the argument admits.
The glue layer nobody budgeted for
No-code stacks get priced by the seat, but the automation layer between the tools is metered per step. Zapier bills one task per action, Make one credit per module, and Workato will not print a number at all.
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