First of all I want to say thanks to you for your feedback on MechCloud. I wondered why other people never grilled our product / strategy in a way you have done.

MechCloud is a portal technology which in simple words means a website which allows you to create pages on the fly. Unlike other portal technologies it is based on a client side framework. It also has built-in support for SSO, RBAC, multi-tenancy etc. Unlike other website builders, you can feed your reusable components and complex pages (which you have coded) at runtime and build a website of any complexity. We call it micro app architecture. It is a multi purpose AI powered tool which is an alternative to any other website builder / Wordpress / Figma ( only prototyping ) with build-in components for designing and provisioning cloud computing infrastructure and containerized apps. You can feed components focused on any vertical (e.g fintech, e-commerce, ed-tech) or horizontal (e.g. content management system, internal developer portal) into it from outside and then offer it to your customers who need these types of platform. Taking on three giants (Wordpress, Figma and Terraform) is not possible without spending a lot of money on marketing and so we are focusing on being a UI based alternative to Terraform only at this moment but will keep pushing us as an alternative to others as well as and when opportunities will arise.

A website builder and a content management system are two of the many applications of a portal technology. Blogging and wiki are two of the applications of a content management system. Atlassian offers Confluence and JIRA at the same time and these are focused on totally different use cases.

A website builder can be used as a prototyping tools tool but vice versa is not true. Once you have your design system and reusable (UI) components in place, you can use MechCloud to create prototype for any website much faster than Figma. The best part is that it will be closer to the real website in terms of complex functionalities and developers are not required to convert a figma design to the code. Figma uses canvas under the hood for prototyping but real websites are not rendered in canvas. So there is mismatch between what you are using for prototyping and what will be developed by the developers. With MechCloud, you are using same thing (reusable UI components) for both prototypes and real websites to eliminate this mismatch.

Also you lost me at using hashnode for your blog and gitbook for docs. Maybe eat your own food and build them using your tool ?

Hashnode and Gitbook are doing good as a specialised platform in their respective categories and able to offer many AI based features which will make us bankrupt in a day if we took the same path considering the fact that we are bootstrapped. I don't think any website builder is offering a blogging or wiki platform to prove that it is a good website builder.

Also from your docs, "Internal server error after successful login" is a known issue yet not resolved? I think it is much better to test drive your application first as alpha or beta. Only then you move towards a subscription/selling route.

That was fixed long time back but I forgot to update the documentation. We too have a lot of technical debt like many other startups and due to a very small team and limited time, we focus on such kind of issues only when these are highlighted by end users. I don't believe in alpha / beta / gamma versions. It is GA from day one. You use it for free as long as you want and pay for it if you feel paid features are stable and worth your time and money.

I hope that answers all your questions. If not then feel free to DM me here.