A large number of small programs with no "commercial value" are about to stop serving...

It seems a bit like a headline, but what the title says is a foreseeable fact...

The "wool era" of small program cloud development

Let’s go a little further first…

In the era of websites, programmers usually need to purchase/rent a server to publish their own applications .

Not to mention the high cost of the server, due to the characteristics of the browser, the front-end and back-end interaction is transparent, and the server IP can easily be found and attacked by interested parties.

Of course, most mobile applications also require a server, but due to opacity, security is greatly improved.

However, after the emergence of small programs, it seems to combine the advantages of both...

The mini program relies on the main program and has complete authentication and closed-source mechanisms, allowing programmers to develop program applications in the same way as developing web pages, making the program more secure.

The mini program in this article mainly refers to the WeChat mini program.

There are many reasons for the popularity of WeChat mini programs, including the emergence of popular mini-games, the traffic aura of the WeChat ecosystem, and the greatly lowered development threshold.

Cloud development is an important step in greatly lowering the development threshold for programmers...

Because cloud development is free…

However, of course there is a quota for free... (You can collect it, but you can only collect a little...)

To put it simply, cloud development means that you can hand over back-end services to WeChat's servers, and WeChat's servers will help you provide back-end services without renting a personal server.

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When the back-end service volume is not large, it can basically be free. Even if you pay by volume, the rate is very low~

ps: The mini program code (equivalent to the front-end code) is also uniformly taken over by WeChat, and there is no cost~

The end of the "wool era" of cloud development

The new billing model has no free quota except for the first month, and the minimum monthly consumption is 39.9 yuan.

If you are interested, you can compare the price increase of cloud development~

If you're too lazy to do the math, you can refer to it directly (I'm too lazy to do the math, so I'll just look for statistics from a big guy):

Before the price increase : A small program with 400 daily active users only costs 1 to 2 yuan per month based on volume;

After the price increase : For a small program with 400 daily active users, the monthly package billing is as low as 39.90 yuan (currently there will be a 50% discount, that is, 19.9 yuan/month, at least until the end of 2022), an increase of up to 20 times .

Data source: https://ah78qwmqfp.feishu.cn/docx/doxcnx6xUp2AP2MKy2T4vyQWsTh

Of course, most of the ones that have been stopped are small programs that lack commercial value.

Someone must have started to say, it’s only 39.9 yuan/month, is it expensive?

Yes, for a small program with no commercial intention.

Looking at the high praise comments, the biggest impact should be on students who do not have much financial ability:

So, is it wrong to raise prices?

Hahaha, it’s just about making money, it’s just business. Most of the high-like discussions under the announcement are very friendly.

It's just a pity that the small program I wrote in college may have to stop serving for a while...

Next time I come back, it will be of full commercial value.

ps: For this price adjustment, if you do not switch to the latest package, cloud development resources will be released on October 22.

At that time, a large number of small programs with "no commercial value" will stop serving...

Follow me, I will introduce some alternatives in the future~

References:

• https://developers.weixin.qq.com/community/minihome/doc/0000a680588d3891fa2ec250c51401
• https://ah78qwmqfp.feishu.cn/docx/doxcnx6xUp2AP2MKy2T4vyQWsTh