I absolutely hate writing reviews like this. So conflicted. Caveat emptor to anyone purchasing an LTD from a founder READ the terms and conditions CLOSELY (this is in NO WAY AppSumo's fault!).
Yes, they are absolutely sticking to the terms of the LTD, and while have been (IMO) minimal updates to the builder, there is simply no way (as far as I can tell) to produce a product for a client and expect to bill them for it from the app. Every time I attempt to produce an invoice, I get an error stating the required permission is only available with the "Elite paid plan," Regardless of the tier level purchased through AppSumo. It's interesting, because it requires little for Lindo to pass along the Stripe token and authenticate to an existing Stripe account. They could arguably increase their take in the form of a commission or upcharge on the processing fees. Nevertheless it's not that big of a deal for me as I bill my client work through other means.
The naming conventions to get whitelabling to work are at best convoluted, requiring 8 DNS zone entries to get the whitelabling to work, which is fine except that communications email can only come from the app domain itself and not from a regular email channel I use to communicate with my clients.
The builder contains very little control over the page layout without having to regenerate the page through a gen AI query.
All of complaints with the T&Cs could be overlooked, if the product just didn't feel so immature.
SO as it stands, without 'upgrading' to some other paid plan, the purchased AS plan is only useful for little more than producing landing pages.
I only purchase this because the export feature is available and now this is completely removed in less than a year. If you search the Questions section, Lindo.Ai did promise export feature will be available for ALL AppSumo plan. Now they asking us to sign up a 140/month ELITE plan. Really hope AppSumo is doing something about this.
We share this same sentiment as so many others, which you can find in the Reviews AND Questions here.
It's super shady to know that you're going to be dangling a bunch of new carrots in front of those Sumolings who supported you here, and then tell them they can have it for the "small monthly fee" of $139.90/month!!! that's insane! And you advertise this "Exclusive Sumoling" pricing on the billing page as if it's some special deal for sumolings when it's just your standard discounted "Annual" pricing amount... which actually shows up cheaper on you Pricing page, at $139.50 😝
I already paid $500. No I'm not paying you more for basic features.
I really regret buying this. The software is basically good for landing pages but it lacks any sort of content management...even basic things like having a universal header or footer for pages. And now I find out after spending $500 some dollars on Tier 5 you want me to pay another $95/month (which is going to go up in a few weeks) just to EXPORT and backup my websites? When some of your current functionality doesn't even work that well? No, no, no. Whoever came up with this idea needs to be fired.
The issue is simple, paywalling essential features
I got it, you kept your pro plan the same.
The problem here is some essential tools (downloading websites) are locked behind a paywall. I think the issue here is just that, if a client wants to change agency, why should i pay an extra to let him do that? it is literally consumers right in lots of country to have the ability to change provider. I mean, me, the guy who made the website, should pay if my client wants to migrate?
I'll take the elite plan anyway, as they still mantained their promises. It's a great site builder (they managed to add lots of features after months). For everyone that is reviewing this product as scam, it is not. They gave you what they said.
Yeah, i am also pissed that i have to change to a "subscription based" plan as an early adopter (of tier 5, so you already got 400/500$ from me), and i agree that 50% discount is not the freshest discount for a guy that believed in you.
I may be more pissed for the paywalled essential features, as said, like website export and (you could argue, as i remember that they promise that) the billing for the client. My opinion here, from a consumer to a developer of the website, is trust. You broke that for lots of customers. And i get it, you can't keep up with "one-time" costs with something like that. But cmon, you clearly know where is the problem with this move, the trust of your customer.
Subscription based is a disease that the whole world has, and appsumo *should* be the place to avoid that.
I hope they move some essential feature to the pro back, then i'll change for the better this review.
Verified purchaser
Disappointing
I absolutely hate writing reviews like this. So conflicted.
Caveat emptor to anyone purchasing an LTD from a founder READ the terms and conditions CLOSELY (this is in NO WAY AppSumo's fault!).
Yes, they are absolutely sticking to the terms of the LTD, and while have been (IMO) minimal updates to the builder, there is simply no way (as far as I can tell) to produce a product for a client and expect to bill them for it from the app. Every time I attempt to produce an invoice, I get an error stating the required permission is only available with the "Elite paid plan," Regardless of the tier level purchased through AppSumo. It's interesting, because it requires little for Lindo to pass along the Stripe token and authenticate to an existing Stripe account. They could arguably increase their take in the form of a commission or upcharge on the processing fees. Nevertheless it's not that big of a deal for me as I bill my client work through other means.
The naming conventions to get whitelabling to work are at best convoluted, requiring 8 DNS zone entries to get the whitelabling to work, which is fine except that communications email can only come from the app domain itself and not from a regular email channel I use to communicate with my clients.
The builder contains very little control over the page layout without having to regenerate the page through a gen AI query.
All of complaints with the T&Cs could be overlooked, if the product just didn't feel so immature.
SO as it stands, without 'upgrading' to some other paid plan, the purchased AS plan is only useful for little more than producing landing pages.
Too bad.
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Verified purchaser
Where is the export feature?
I only purchase this because the export feature is available and now this is completely removed in less than a year. If you search the Questions section, Lindo.Ai did promise export feature will be available for ALL AppSumo plan. Now they asking us to sign up a 140/month ELITE plan. Really hope AppSumo is doing something about this.
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Verified purchaser
Bait & Switch Much?
We share this same sentiment as so many others, which you can find in the Reviews AND Questions here.
It's super shady to know that you're going to be dangling a bunch of new carrots in front of those Sumolings who supported you here, and then tell them they can have it for the "small monthly fee" of $139.90/month!!! that's insane! And you advertise this "Exclusive Sumoling" pricing on the billing page as if it's some special deal for sumolings when it's just your standard discounted "Annual" pricing amount... which actually shows up cheaper on you Pricing page, at $139.50 😝
Screenshot: https://app.box.com/s/9vwf1bz5bcvs7xu1ul08lymj3h6g7556
We were excited for the future but it seems that this is just another AppSumo sunk cost, as we will no longer be using this tool.
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Verified purchaser
I already paid $500. No I'm not paying you more for basic features.
I really regret buying this. The software is basically good for landing pages but it lacks any sort of content management...even basic things like having a universal header or footer for pages. And now I find out after spending $500 some dollars on Tier 5 you want me to pay another $95/month (which is going to go up in a few weeks) just to EXPORT and backup my websites? When some of your current functionality doesn't even work that well? No, no, no. Whoever came up with this idea needs to be fired.
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Verified purchaser
The issue is simple, paywalling essential features
I got it, you kept your pro plan the same.
The problem here is some essential tools (downloading websites) are locked behind a paywall. I think the issue here is just that, if a client wants to change agency, why should i pay an extra to let him do that? it is literally consumers right in lots of country to have the ability to change provider. I mean, me, the guy who made the website, should pay if my client wants to migrate?
I'll take the elite plan anyway, as they still mantained their promises. It's a great site builder (they managed to add lots of features after months). For everyone that is reviewing this product as scam, it is not. They gave you what they said.
Yeah, i am also pissed that i have to change to a "subscription based" plan as an early adopter (of tier 5, so you already got 400/500$ from me), and i agree that 50% discount is not the freshest discount for a guy that believed in you.
I may be more pissed for the paywalled essential features, as said, like website export and (you could argue, as i remember that they promise that) the billing for the client. My opinion here, from a consumer to a developer of the website, is trust. You broke that for lots of customers. And i get it, you can't keep up with "one-time" costs with something like that. But cmon, you clearly know where is the problem with this move, the trust of your customer.
Subscription based is a disease that the whole world has, and appsumo *should* be the place to avoid that.
I hope they move some essential feature to the pro back, then i'll change for the better this review.
Share Lindo Ai