u/Former-Plankton8658

Genuine question because I keep going back and forth on this. When I set up our site I just defaulted to GA4 out of habit, mostly because that's what everyone does and I didn't want to think about it. But Webflow has its own analytics dashboard now and I've been poking at it lately trying to figure out if it's worth caring about.

The problem is I can't tell if it's genuinely useful for a lean B2B setup or if it's just a nicelooking page count that gives you a false sense of information. For a bootstrapped SaaS marketing site the data I actually need is pretty narrow: which pages are people hitting before they convert, where are they bouncing, is a specific landing page doing anything. GA4 technically covers all of that but it also requires a PhD to set up event tracking properly and I have a running joke with myself about how many times I've misconfigured it.

Webflow analytics feels cleaner but I worry it's too shallow for anything beyond curiosity. Curious whether anyone here runs it as their primary source or if you treat it as a sanity check alongside something else. And if you've actually replaced GA4 with a third option like Fathom or Plausible, I'd be curious what pushed you to make that call.

Most of the conversation here is about building apps with nocode, which makes sense. But I've been quietly using it for something completely different and I'm curious if others do the same.

My SaaS product itself is coded. But everything around it, onboarding email sequences, churn alert automations, internal dashboards for support, Slack notifications when someone hits a usage threshold, all of that is glued together with nocode and lowcode tools. Make, Airtable, a little Zapier, some Retool for internal views.

It's kind of weird to admit but these automations probably save me more time per week than any feature I've shipped in the last six months. The product gets better slowly. The ops stuff compounds quietly in the background.

The downside is it gets messy fast. I have automations triggering automations at this point and I only half remember what some of them do. Classic founder problem I guess.

Wondering if anyone here does the same thing, using nocode not as the product but as the scaffolding around a product. And if so, what tools are actually holding up for you versus what fell apart when things got slightly more complex.

We were paying a contractor to update our marketing site for two years. Every change went through a Slack thread, a backandforth, a staging review, and somehow still came out slightly wrong. Classic founder tax

Finally moved everything to Webflow about three months ago. The migration itself was fine. We had maybe 40 pages, no massive blog archive or anything. What surprised me was how much time I was burning just on the dependency of having someone else own the site. That part is gone now, and I didn't expect to notice it as much as I did.

What I underestimated going in was the CMS. We have a pretty lightweight content setup, but I kept hitting the edges of what it can do when I tried to connect it to our Make automations for updating case study pages. Got it working eventually, but it took longer than expected

Curious whether other founders or small teams have hit similar walls when trying to automate CMS updates through the API. Specifically whether anyone has found a cleaner way to handle dynamic content that doesn't require a full custom code workaround every single time.