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2025 Black Friday Sale from Directual

2025 Black Friday Sale from Directual

Inside Directual

We’re back with the big one. After a stellar reaction last year, we’re doubling down — the same unbeatable deal, extended dates, even more opportunity. From November 17 to November 30, this isn’t a “maybe” — it’s your moment to jump.

November 17, 2025
by
Pavel Ershov
Directual Pricing update: June 2024

Directual Pricing update: June 2024

Product updates
Inside Directual

See the latest changes to our pricing.

May 30, 2024
by
Pavel Ershov
How to make the most out of Directual’s pricing and resource limits

How to make the most out of Directual’s pricing and resource limits

Inside Directual

For everyone on the fence about trying and worrying about the small print: see in depth how Directual pricing and operational limits work! The platform is as pay-as-you-go as it gets.

March 19, 2024
by
Pavel Ershov
The Journey of Directual: 2023 Recap and 2024 Teasers

The Journey of Directual: 2023 Recap and 2024 Teasers

Inside Directual

As 2023 draws to a close, it is time to sum up and share a little bit about what is in store for you in 2024. And, of course, to unveil our little gift for you.

December 31, 2023
by
Eugene Doronin
DX as a competitive advantage—Directual’s take on UX vs. DX

DX as a competitive advantage—Directual’s take on UX vs. DX

Inside Directual
Market insights

The tides are shifting. First, it was the users’ whim that decided what comes forth and what doesn’t. Now, it’s developers who get that privilege. Learn more about DX and UX in this short article.

November 20, 2023
by
Pavel Ershov
Inside Directual | How we organized a dashboard on Direcutal

Inside Directual | How we organized a dashboard on Direcutal

Inside Directual

Today we're starting a series of videos about how Directual is built from the inside out. We’ll look at our dashboard, which collects information from the questionnaire you saw when you first registered on the platform.

August 28, 2023
by
Pavel Ershov
Introducing Directual Marketplace

Introducing Directual Marketplace

Inside Directual
Product updates

It’s raining plugins! Check out our new Marketplace, now ripe with all sorts of plugins and modules you’ve been looking for. Anyone can contribute, buy, and sell plugins as well.

July 20, 2023
by
Nikita Navalikhin
Changes to Directual Free plan

Changes to Directual Free plan

Inside Directual
Product updates

The freemium pricing plan is about to become a thing of the past. This short post will explain why and how the trial mode now works with Directual.

May 16, 2023
by
Pavel Ershov
New Directual Billing — and how we built it

New Directual Billing — and how we built it

Product updates
Inside Directual

Big news: we’ve updated the billing section on our platform! That’s the module responsible for calculating virtually everything: tariff plans, developer seats, the cost of on-demand resources depending on the plan, discounts, and promo codes. Long story short, it’s a rather sophisticated part of the platform, built on the platform itself! Find the breakdown of it all below, folks.

April 28, 2022
by
Leo Khellenbrand
Directual has closed a funding round

Directual has closed a funding round

Inside Directual

In December 2021 Directual has closed a funding round led by Sistema SmartTech and JointJourney. That’ll help us to introduce more powerful features, to add more comprehensive tutorials and templates, and to invest in the Directual community. The founders are excited to share their vision for further company development.

December 15, 2021
by
Pavel Ershov
How to craft an ideal Public Roadmap

How to craft an ideal Public Roadmap

Inside Directual
Market insights

Directual product development roadmap goes public! There you can find the current development pipeline, upvote the features you like most, request new ones and subscribe for the updates. Of course, the roadmap is developed on the platform. You’ll find new template and a comprehensive step-by-step video-tutorial for building a similar roadmap app for yourself!

June 4, 2021
by
Pavel Ershov
Three things we loved in 2020

Three things we loved in 2020

Market insights
Inside Directual

A lot changed in 2020 for millions of people. There were new challenges in the software world, they mostly referred to the rapid adoption of remote work and online services. In order to be transformed, whole industries had to introduce new software. No-code technology became the very solution to those challenges!

January 16, 2021
by
Pavel Ershov
Directual Design—an open-source front-end project

Directual Design—an open-source front-end project

Product updates
Inside Directual

Directual has always been a perfect choice for low-coding a backend of a web or mobile app. But, bearing in mind our motto to “let people create”, we started working on Directual Web-page builder. Moreover, we decided to make it open-source—to let every front-end developer be able to build new web-components for interface constructor. So, meet Directual Design — the basic open-source React-components library!

July 10, 2020
by
Nikita Navalikhin
Introducing fresh Directual 7.0

Introducing fresh Directual 7.0

Product updates
Inside Directual

The Spring 2020 has become the time for one of the most significant Directual updates since the very beginning. We are introducing: fresh 7.0 version of the platform, open registration, flexible pricing plans and the Academy.

March 31, 2020
by
Pavel Ershov