Bardeden is the easiest scraper and automation tool there is - it's so nice that I can set up playbooks and prompts directly in the browser, without leaving the site I'm on.
Is a great tool with excellent UX. Making WebScraping accessible to noncoders is great. Was working fine until they charged 10 usd for 500 credits. found that was too expensive because 3 basic webscraping task consumed them really fast. made the calc for my need and cost me an eye.
switching back to powerautomate.
I have been using bardeen for building list of leads from LinkedIn and collaborate it with Asana. Have been a helpful tool for me and my team to be able to generate leads fastly and effecienctly the scraper is one of my favorite tool we save 30% - 50% of our time from the manual process to autamating the process! Love to explore more! Kudos!
EDIT: There’s no reply button so I’ll reply here. It’s not about the money. I could easily afford this and gladly would have done so as it’s a damn good app.
It’s about the principle. There’s no way none of
your 30+ employees or your marketing department thought “Hey, this might be unexpected to the people heavily using the premium functions. They’ll likely run out of their 500 credits fast!”
Which means it was a deliberate and conscious decision. You could have easily made a little banner last month saying “Bardeen is moving some functions to a Premium subscription. Don’t worry, you’ll be able to continue using most of our tools for free! See the upcoming changes here: (link).”
Was an amazing tool, turns out it was too good to be true.
Bardeen made the service subscription based out of nowhere without any prior in app notice.
They basically used everyone as beta testers while being "free" to collect feedback and tons of talk + positive feedback about them. That part wouldn't even be much of a problem.
The problem is they rug-pulled their many users by adding this out of nowhere. Basically not giving people the chance to find an alternative if they became dependent on Bardeen. Which forces them to subscribe.
Truly a baffling move for a business with an excellent reputation to stain their reputation and name like this. People would have likely subscribed anyway. You must greatly underestimate the advantage you threw away by doing this. It is worth a 100x times more than a few extra subs.
On top of that it constantly bugs out on various things that worked excellent.
Hi Dani,
Really sorry you feel that way. I am more than happy to help you and give you enough credits to ensure continuity of your workflows.
All existing users are automatically getting 1 month and free credits to ensure continuity of their workflows. I am happy to extend the trial period for you (and anyone else who needs it).
Please reach out to artem@ via email and we will do our best to get your problem solved.