June 2021 Summaries

We built CrowdStock as a kickstarter and crowdfunding fulfillment service app using Bubble's no-code platform. We chose Bubble because of its simple-to-use features and how the front end, back end, and payment are all in one place. The app has three dashboards - admin, creator, and backer dashboard - designed for simplicity to make tasks easy. It provides an efficient and minimalist experience for backers, allowing them to access everything they need in a sleek checkout process. John Bura, the tech lead of CrowdStock, discovered no-code tools like Bubble while running his eLearning company Mammoth Interactive, which has sold over 1 million courses worldwide. He built CrowdStock after finding that the SaaS ecosystem was disorganized and needed an app like Bubble. The founders chose to build on Bubble because it saves time and allows users to focus on building their product without worrying about technical details. They plan to add a digital marketplace to help drive creators' sales and funding, making CrowdStock the easiest way to make post-campaign success.

I built Data Roadtrip, an app that allows users to guess the demographics of a neighborhood based on Google Streetview images, using Bubble's no-code platform. As a graphic designer with a political science degree, I wanted to create an engaging and informative experience for users. With three minutes to move sliders representing income, minority population, and election results, users can test their assumptions about unfamiliar places in the US. The app has received positive feedback from its initial user base of around 100 people, who appreciated its ability to challenge their perspectives on American demographics. I'm now seeking a partner to help promote and develop the project further, with the goal of showcasing its potential for educational and social impact.

Main Street is a company that helps people start their own home services businesses with its "business in a box" model, offering training, marketing lead generation, operational assistance, and support for various types of home services such as painting, roofing, and moving. The company uses Bubble's no-code web app platform to build its end-to-end solution. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Main Street had to adapt quickly with limited resources, leveraging Bubble's no-code platform to build a key tool, an Estimate Engine, which helped them validate their product and secure funding. John Jacob, the company's CEO, credits Bubble for allowing him to focus on high-level tasks and emphasizes the importance of offering simple solutions to customers. Main Street aims to expand its services to over 100 business owners and more types of home services.

Tutorpillar is a tutoring business management platform that aims to reinvent the industry by connecting students with genuine and caring tutors who have standardized pricing, flexible schedules, and are personally invested in their success. The platform uses a double-sided marketplace where students can browse through tutors' profiles, book lessons, and make payments through Stripe Merchant. Ella Persse, the founder of Tutorpillar, chose Bubble as her no-code platform due to its ease of use and ability to add features without writing code. With over 500,000 users currently building businesses on Bubble, the company is a leader in the no-code movement and offers a powerful point-and-click web editor and cloud hosting platform that allows users to build fully customizable web applications and workflows. Tutorpillar has launched its MVP and is now focusing on improving user experience and adding new features to increase revenue for tutors.

Giftenizer is a social networking app that allows users to share details about their upcoming events and reserve gifts from recommended stores online. The app aims to help users pick presents that wouldn't go to waste for any occasion, while also allowing friends and family to see and purchase gift lists. Giftenizer was built using Bubble's no-code platform, which enabled its founder Oleksiy Matveyev to quickly build the app without coding. With a background in coding, Matveyev chose not to spend time on backend development and instead focused on UI and logic building with Bubble. The app has reached several milestones, including building a fully functional application with essential features, and plans to optimize and grow its user network. Giftenizer is now available on various networks and aims to share its application with the world.

ComidX is a web-based platform developed in Yucatan, Mexico that aggregates promotions and discounts from restaurants around the city, allowing users to browse categories or search for specific food promotions. The app has been built using Bubble's no-code platform, which enabled ComidX founder Sergio Gongora to quickly develop the platform without coding. With over 500,000 users building businesses on Bubble, ComidX aims to continue increasing its database of restaurants and promotions to reach a wider market in Mexico, potentially expanding to other countries in the future.

Dream Day is an online wedding planner app created by Harry and Rachel Brown, co-founders who experienced difficulties with wedding planning after their own 2018 wedding. They built Dream Day using Bubble's no-code platform to create a web app that provides tools such as checklists, budgets, and timelines for engaged couples in New Zealand. The app allows users to access their planner and tools, edit checklist items, and use an online marketplace of vendors to find the perfect vendor for their wedding. The founders discovered no-code tools like Bubble after being left with an unfinished project by a previous developer and have been working on creating their web app themselves. They chose Bubble due to its complexity and functionality needed for users, and have successfully launched phase one of their MVP rollout and overcame several challenges along the way.

We built Treepoints, a subscription service that simplifies positive climate action for businesses and individuals by helping them understand and manage their carbon emissions. The app is powered by Bubble's no-code platform, which enabled us to build a beautiful website with little-to-no knowledge of code and development. We offer three subscription plans, calculate users' carbon footprint using data from authorities like the World Bank and the World Wildlife Federation, and reward users for doing so. Our goal is to help individuals and businesses achieve carbon neutrality and climate positivity through rapid growth and partnerships with larger organizations.

Yaser Aldada, the founder of Vendora, a marketplace and community for local cultural wedding professionals, chose Bubble as the no-code platform to build his app due to its ease-of-use and lack of product design or coding knowledge requirements. Vendora powers the marketing and advertising needs of wedding and event businesses in Canada and USA, driving a shift towards a demand-based digital economy. The platform allows wedding professionals to register, create profiles, post services, generate leads, and couples to browse vendors, view services, send messages, and book. Yaser discovered no-code tools like Bubble while looking for ways to empower himself as a non-technical entrepreneur with a background in business and engineering. He chose Bubble due to its ability to make changes quickly without additional cost, which gave him an edge over competitors. Vendora has been growing rapidly since its launch in February 2021, with plans to launch a mobile app and add new services such as wedding-related training workshops to diversify revenue streams.

B-School Champion is an app that helps people prepare for admissions interviews at top business schools like Harvard, Wharton, and INSEAD. The app provides a platform for users to practice with hundreds of past questions, watch videos with advice, and view example answers. It simulates mock interviews by serving random interview questions and allowing users to time themselves while answering. Users can filter the type of questions they see and access "best practices" videos and example responses from past candidates. The app was built using Bubble, a no-code platform that offers powerful tools for building apps without extensive coding knowledge. Edward Easling, the founder of B-School Champion, chose Bubble due to its features and ease of use, which aligns with his background as a management consultant who values speed and efficiency in product development. The app has already gained some users and revenue, and Edward plans to experiment with different marketing strategies, including creating content around interviewing tips and best practices, to attract more users.

Seekho, a video-first microlearning platform based in New Delhi, India, offers online content to Indian students and global audiences, with a focus on career development and skill-building for young professionals. The company is launching a custom curriculum bootcamp on no-code development using the Bubble platform, led by industry expert Jyotika Tehlan from Trynocode. This bootcamp aims to provide specialized training in no-code development, enabling participants to turn their ideas into reality quickly and affordably. Seekho's platform also offers various resources, including mentorship, exclusive internships, and hands-on workshops, catering to users' career-related questions and needs. No-code tools are gaining popularity due to their low-cost and time-saving nature, allowing individuals to build apps and user journeys without relying on freelancers or engineers, thereby promoting independence and ease of adoption in app development.

Northern Raised is a customizable monthly subscription solution for grass-fed, naturally-raised meats and fish business, built using Bubble's no-code platform, which offers flexibility and unique customizability needs. The app allows users to browse products, confirm delivery zones, add products to their cart with a minimum $150 order requirement, and manage their subscription status through an admin dashboard. The founders, Andrew Pottruff and Zack Langlois, have a background in digital marketing and chose Bubble for its substantial customizability and opportunities. They've since launched the business, refactored their subscription model, integrated SendGrid for transactional email services, and began working on a referral program and promotions. Their next steps include streamlining fulfillment processes and integrating delivery/shipment tracking. The app aims to provide customers with high-quality, sustainable meat options while allowing users to customize their orders.

Rags is a mobile app that allows users to discover cool clothing brands and interact with other users. It features collections of clothing brands, user-submitted brands, and a community-driven approach to fashion discovery. The app was built on the no-code platform Bubble by co-founders Josh Cornelius and Stephanie Savoie, who chose Bubble for its capabilities and active community. The app has seen steady growth since launch and aims to grow an engaged community around it, making it more valuable for brands looking for exposure. With a focus on user experience and a strong community of builders and entrepreneurs, Rags is part of the no-code movement that allows users to build fully functional digital products without coding.

Teal, a digital career companion platform, uses no-code tools like Bubble to empower its entire team to work on the product, not just engineers, allowing for rapid iteration and fast progress towards helping people navigate their career search. The company's founder and CEO, David Fano, believes that no-code was in their DNA due to the need for speed and quick iteration to crack the challenge of offering a personalized digital career coach. With Bubble's no-code web app builder, Teal integrates with various services such as Typeform, Hubspot, Zapier, Airtable, and Webflow, allowing them to create a comprehensive platform that offers tools and content resources tailored to users' goals. The company's success is attributed to the ability of its team members, including those not trained as engineers, to contribute to the product in different ways, thanks to Bubble's account management systems and simple user authentication and payment integrations. Teal aims to help every professional land a job they love, with over 11,000 users on their platform and growing everyday, and has expanded its reach by offering both human and technological guidance to empower users throughout their job search.

Bobby Smith founded The School of Impact (SOI), an app that allows social entrepreneurs and universities to collaborate on ideas driving global social innovation. SOI is like Product Hunt, but for social impact projects, and it partners with universities globally to support local social innovation through online courses and a built-in social network. Users can explore different social innovation projects, "Hype" and "Follow" projects they support, and in the future, donate to them. Bobby chose Bubble as the platform due to its accessibility and ease of use, which allowed him to teach his idea to a global community. He has achieved milestones such as launching the app, signing regional leaders, and hosting a global event. His next steps include growing the user base through university partners, adding donation functionality, and generating Joint Research Agreements across North and South America. Bobby aims to make no-code tools like Bubble accessible to economic mobility and entrepreneurship for millions of people.

Mads Schmidt Petersen, the founder of Honeyglider, has built an app that aims to support travelers in finding the cheapest flights by using a no-code platform called Bubble. The app offers two levels of functionality: a short-term extension for Chrome that provides price predictions on online travel agencies, and a long-term service where users can pay for their flights upfront and receive savings when prices drop. Mads has been an entrepreneur since he was 16 years old and chose Bubble due to its robust front-end and web app development capabilities. Honeyglider is about to launch the extension on the Chrome Store, and the team plans to continue iterating and improving the predictions before launching a second version of the business.

We asked UNI-INTERACT founders, Wakana Kumagawa, Miyu Kondo, and Hideaki Iwata about building an app that allows university students who are learning languages to interact with and meet each other. Wakana is currently studying English and Spanish at a Japanese university. Her study abroad plans in Australia were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, so she decided to build an app for students from different countries to interact with one another. She chose Bubble because the no-code platform's forum and easy-to-use interface made the process of building the UNI-INTERACT website simple and fast. The app, UNI-INTERACT, is an online community where university students who are learning languages can connect with and meet other students from around the world through online video calls, social events, proofreading services, and more for free! Students can find language exchange partners, schedule video calls, get their writing corrected by native speakers, and post materials that they recommend. The founders discovered no-code tools like Bubble while looking to improve Wakana's English and Spanish skills after her study abroad plans were cancelled due to the pandemic. They chose Bubble because of its easy-to-use platform and forum, which made building the website simple and fast. Since launching last month, UNI-INTERACT has already gained students from various countries, including the U.S., Spain, France, and more. The founders plan to improve the app for language learning, studying abroad, and internships, and even provide a service for finding host families once international travel becomes possible again.

Carlos Velasquez discovered the no-code movement through Instagram in October 2020 and found Bubble as his first no-code tool, which offered a wide variety of resources such as community, bootcamp, online courses, and more to build a fully functional app. He chose Bubble due to its extensive resources, including a Facebook/Twitter community that provided one-on-one support, which was essential for him. Al-Remi is an app designed to assist small restaurant owners in posting consistently on social media by creating copy for them, with the long-term vision of becoming a fully AI-powered marketing platform. The app allows users to sign up and give instructions to Remi, such as generating social media copy for a menu item, which can be used on their social media platforms. Carlos launched his app in beta mode and has several beta users lined up, including a large restaurant group in Texas. His next steps include increasing automation with backend workflows and syncing content ideas with a national holiday calendar.

A computer science student at UCLA, Aryan Arora, turned his interest in app development into income by discovering no-code tools like Bubble and founding a nationwide, student-led organization called NoCode UCLA to educate students about no-code tools and provide hands-on experience in app and website development. Prior to finding no-code tools, Arora was involved in iOS development and realized that code was not necessary for building some tech products, which led him to create a service to help his peers build apps with no-code products. After launching the organization, it gained popularity, earning thousands of dollars by producing apps and tech solutions for external startups, and now has 16 members and over 50 learners who attend club workshops to learn about no-code tools. Arora aims to empower students to learn how to build their own apps, even outside of the NoCode club, and plans to expand the organization nationwide with the help of Bubble's partnership.

ChatParse.AI is a no-code platform that provides pre-trained natural language processing (NLP) artificial intelligence (AI) models, allowing users to automate tasks such as chatbot automation, CRM analysis, and data analysis through its API or plugins with Bubble. The app's founder, Claudia Sin, chose Bubble for its efficient product launch and low maintenance requirements, which enabled the creation of a minimum viable product (MVP) in just one month by 1.5 engineers. With over 500,000 users building businesses on Bubble, the no-code platform has become a leader in the industry, offering a powerful point-and-click web editor and cloud hosting platform that enables users to build fully customizable web applications and workflows.

The Nexus blockchain team has developed a Bubble plugin that allows users to build decentralized applications (DApps) and create smart contracts without needing extensive coding knowledge. This plugin provides a user-friendly interface for creating and managing user accounts, sending tokens, listing transactions, and storing assets on the blockchain. The platform also enables users to create non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and tokenize assets, making it suitable for various use cases such as supply chain management, art marketplaces, and social networks. With Nexus, users can capture and record data permanently on the blockchain, opening up opportunities for tracking transactions, ownership, and authenticity. The plugin is part of Bubble's no-code movement, which empowers users to build fully customizable web applications and workflows without requiring extensive coding knowledge.

myRPlanner is a condominium reserve fund management tool that helps users calculate volumes, capture age and condition, collect photos, and generate financial updates, 5-year plans, budgets, RFQs, investment recommendations, and risk assessments. The app was built using Bubble's no-code platform due to its ease of use for database workflows and calculations. The founders, Steven and Taylor, have a background in engineering but little programming experience, which led them to try various tools before finding Bubble. Since converting to Bubble, myRPlanner has experienced significant growth, tripling revenue in 2020 and reaching approximately $1 million in recurring revenue within two years. Plans for future development include adding an investment recommendation calculation and insurance risk assessment platforms.