Do anyone really knows how metawebs work and why is so expensive? I had read that they had done so well on the past thats why they can ask for such a high price. But I really don't know how they works and if the result are worth that price tag.
It basically generates doorway pages with dynamic content. It's certainly not worth the price tag -- like most electronic based products, it only costs as much as it does because the seller thinks people will actually pay it. A single membership for a single month probably covers their own expenses and development cost some ten times over (I believe they hired a kid from eastern Europe to write it for them.) If you really need some kind of automated solution that does the same thing, you're better off just hiring someone to write it for you, if you're not a programmer yourself.
You can to to elance.com & hire a programmer at reasonable cost. I hired one from Singapore (I think that's where it was) he did good work & was very reasonable. Adam