Hello Speckle Team,
Over the years I’ve tried to introduce Speckle in my company, and it has been really useful for communicating with clients and allowing them to follow the progress of projects as they developed. We even had clients who, throughout the course of projects, started asking us for the 3D model on Speckle specifically — both for how easy it is to visualise and because it allows them to leave comments directly on the 3D models.
We ended up upgrading our account to the $96/year plan with 5 projects, which roughly matched the number of projects I had running under my responsibility at any given time — though I still had to manage things by deleting older projects to make room for new ones.
Throughout this time, whenever I could, I reached out to share feedback — flagging bugs or suggesting improvements. I was genuinely thrilled when I heard you had secured investor funding to keep doing what you do best. At the time I was even planning to send you a message with some ideas I had for Speckle — with that kind of backing, we could dream big.
My idea was to bring sensor data into Speckle, to give life to 3D models even after projects are completed. I’m a Home Assistant user, and I dreamed of seeing live data inside Speckle, with dynamic visual responses driven by real sensor values — something along the lines of what Autodesk Tandem is doing now. But that’s a longer conversation for another thread.
What actually brings me here is that our licence is about to expire, and I can’t justify to my company the need to upgrade to the new plans. To keep 5 active projects, we’d be going from $96 to $1,000/year.
I introduced Speckle here out of personal interest — it has been useful in some projects, but the company could live without it.
That said, I don’t want that to happen. I want to stay connected with Speckle, and I’ve managed to convince the team internally to install the self-hosted version. We’ve already got it up and running (we haven’t configured the Revit Connector yet), though I notice the server version is older compared to the app: Server v2.31.15-alpha.1277 vs App v2026.6.1-alpha.2437.
We don’t really need all the features from the latest app version — the goal is simply to share 3D models and embed Speckle links in PDFs to deliver interactive documentation with 3D models. So the self-hosted version works perfectly for that. I would, however, like to know whether there are any plans to release a more up-to-date server version, or whether development on that front has stalled.
I’ll likely continue using the app with a free account to keep up with new developments, and occasionally for more complex project — once they’re wrapped up, I’ll move the models over to the self-hosted server to free up space on the app.
Thanks