AppGyver joins SAP
Updated 02/12/2021: We wanted to further clarify our plans regarding pricing, so see the beginning of the second chapter for more information!
We are proud and excited to announce the next chapter in the AppGyver saga: our acquisition by SAP. (You can check the official SAP press release here.)
What happens now?
There will be no immediate changes to the product or anything else — you can continue to develop your existing and future projects as before.
Everyone in the current AppGyver team will continue on, building the product and driving the vision; joining forces with a truly global technology powerhouse simply enables us to march towards our goals with orders of magnitude more resources. The platform development will progress much faster, and being part of SAP means you can count on us to not go away.
In the future, there will be integrations with SAP products, which will bring new opportunities to our enterprise customers. In addition, we’ll continue to have exciting features and improvements in our product roadmap for indie and enterprise developers alike.
Will the pricing or the role of the indie developer community change?
There will be a free indie tier, though some new features (such as organization support or an integrated Backend-as-a-Service offering) will be for paid users only. The plan is also to make paid features available with a trial period and with pricing that works for smaller companies too.
As for the apps you have already built and deployed under AppGyver’s free tier plan, or apps currently under development and soon to be released, nothing will change for you — everything created under the current free tier will remain available as before.
We still believe 100% that a development product cannot succeed without an open and active developer community. You guys and gals mean the world to us, and we will continue delivering the best possible experience for everyone. Being part of SAP does not take away from our commitment to being a platform for everyone.
The existing support channels such as the community forums and AppGyver Academy will continue to operate as usual.
While many new enterprise-oriented features will be introduced in the coming months, resources will continue to be allocated to community-originating requests too, just like up to now. However, new consumer-facing features such as in-app purchases will likely be made available via community-maintained plugins/marketplace components, rather than as official core platform features, much in the same way frameworks such as React Native are organizing their plugin infrastructure.
For the most part however, we believe there is very little mismatch between indie and enterprise users’ needs and feature requests — both benefit from a better no-code app builder.
A few additional words
When we started working on AppGyver around ten years ago, we had a vision to democratize software development, and a mission to build the best visual tools to do that. With the release of Composer Pro less than a year ago, we knew that we had arrived at an important milestone: making it possible to build great apps with just drag’n drop. Now, with us becoming part of the SAP family, it’s very exciting to our team to know that the product is here to stay. In a way, this is just a beginning!
As part of our vision, we also always wanted to reach a global audience and make our technology used by as many people as possible. That’s why we took the approach of building a developer ecosystem first, and we have grown from zero to tens of thousands of developers in a very short time. Today, with AppGyver becoming part of SAP, the next amazing chapter beings with a truly world-wide reach that would have never been possible for a start-up. With these thoughts in my mind, I welcome all of You, our community, to the join us in what’s ahead. Let’s make no-code the new standard together!
Marko Lehtimäki
AppGyver
