David Siegel
Glide is a no-code platform that empowers anyone to build custom, AI-powered business apps from spreadsheets and databases without writing code, with a mission to create a billion new software developers.
At a Glance
- Supply Chain
- Manufacturing
- Retail
- Real Estate
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Latest News
2025 Year in Review published - highlighted Workflows launch, Glide Agent beta, 475 Certified Experts, and upcoming 2026 product announcement
Partnership with Contra announced to support freelancing Glide Experts
PGA TOUR Championship utilized custom-built Glide app
Sponsored Create With conference in London; Glide Experts program celebrated two-year anniversary
Products & Services
Core platform that creates mobile and web apps from spreadsheets and databases without coding. Supports device-responsive design with adaptive apps.
AI-powered features including AI app generator, text extraction from images, audio-to-text transformation, automated workflows in Data Editor, and managed AI models for content generation and task automation.
AI-powered assistant available in beta for intelligent automation and app building assistance.
Native database-grade data source supporting up to 10 million rows with data backup capabilities.
Market Position
Glide positions itself as the easiest and fastest no-code platform for building data-driven business apps, particularly excelling at mobile-first and spreadsheet-to-app conversions. Compared to competitors: more user-friendly than Bubble (which has steeper learning curve but more flexibility), faster and simpler than Webflow, better for data-driven apps than Adalo, and more powerful than Softr while maintaining ease of use. Unique strengths include AI integration, Big Tables supporting 10M rows, strong Google Sheets integration, and focus on business operations use cases.
Leadership
Founders
David Siegel
Designer, software engineer, and entrepreneur. Previously led design at Microsoft Developer Division and Xamarin (acquired by Microsoft for $500 million). Before that, he designed for Canonical/Ubuntu where he coined the term 'papercut' and worked on Unity launcher. Founded Futureproof, an early humane tech company. Holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy and computer science engineering. Has expertise in developer tools, open source, no-code tools, and internal business apps.
Jason Smith
Co-founder of Glide. Former principal software engineer at Microsoft and Xamarin. Studied computer science at Western Michigan University. Has 17 years of experience as a software leader and UI-focused engineer.
Mark Probst
Co-founder and CTO of Glide. Former principal software engineer at Microsoft and Xamarin. Focuses on data architecture and infrastructure at Glide, advocating for data-first design in app development.
Antonio Garcia Aprea
Co-founder of Glide. Previously worked at Xamarin, the cross-platform mobile development company acquired by Microsoft for $500 million in 2016.
Executive Team
David Siegel
Co-founder and CEO
Former Head of Design at Microsoft Developer Division and Xamarin, designer at Canonical (Ubuntu). Philosophy and computer science engineering background.
Mark Probst
Co-founder and CTO
Former Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft and Xamarin. Focuses on data architecture and platform infrastructure.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
Glide was founded in 2018 by David Siegel, Jason Smith, Mark Probst, and Antonio Garcia Aprea, who previously worked together at Xamarin (acquired by Microsoft for $500M). They recognized a need to make software creation accessible to non-developers. The team started with the insight that they could make it much easier to create well-designed, data-driven apps by starting with the spreadsheet as the foundation. They joined Y Combinator Winter 2019 batch and discovered that if software creation is accessible and easy enough, everybody wants to create software.
Business Model
Revenue Model
SaaS subscription model with tiered pricing (Freemium to Enterprise), usage-based overages for additional users and updates, professional services through Glide Solutions for custom app development, and potential revenue sharing with Certified Experts program.
Pricing Tiers
Unlimited drafts, 1 editor, 40+ components, community support, up to 25,000 spreadsheet rows, 25,000 high-scale rows, 500MB file storage
100 personal users, 250 updates ($0.02 per additional), 2 editors, 1 published app, 25,000 spreadsheet rows, 25,000 high-scale rows, 10GB file storage, Workflows, Glide AI, AI Support
Unlimited personal users, 500 updates ($0.02 per additional), 2 editors, 3 published apps, 25,000 spreadsheet rows, 50,000 high-scale rows, 25GB file storage, designed for MVPs and prototyping, Standard Support
30 users included ($5-6 per additional user), 5,000 updates ($0.02 per additional), 10 editors, unlimited published apps, 25,000 spreadsheet rows, 100,000 high-scale rows, 500GB file storage, Workflows, Call API, Glide API, Glide Express Support, custom branding, custom domains, multiple data sources
Custom users, updates, and rows, unlimited apps, SSO, Data Backups, Enterprise Integrations (HubSpot, Salesforce, PostgreSQL), Account Manager, Glide Priority Support
Target Markets
- Supply Chain
- Manufacturing
- Retail
- Real Estate
- Hospitality
- Professional Services
- Portals (Customer, Employee, Investor)
- Dashboards and Analytics
- CRM systems
- Inventory Management
- Logistics Management
- Procurement
- PGA of America
- TTR Sotheby's International Realty
- Hunter Douglas
- Volkswagen