Boards and items
Boards feel snappy in demos but bog down at real-world scale, with users hitting item caps and 25-second load times on dense data.
What people actually say
✕Contact board with several thousand items and 60-70 columns becomes unusable, item detail views take over 25 seconds to load.
Source: monday Community, slow boards thread ↗✕Six months into building a workflow, users report the whole platform runs noticeably slowly as data and connected boards grow.
Source: monday Community, slow page load thread ↗✕29% of TrustRadius reviewers flag sluggishness with larger dashboards and boards as a recurring weakness.
Source: TrustRadius monday reviews aggregate ↗
A bespoke build runs your boards on a real database (Postgres) with proper indexes on the columns you actually filter and sort by, so a board with 50k rows and 60 columns opens in under a second instead of timing out. We virtualize the grid so only visible rows render, paginate connected-board lookups, and tune the schema to your domain rather than forcing every entity through a generic 'item' table.