January 2022 Summaries

Qualified is a niche job board app that connects skilled accountants with high-quality career opportunities in Ireland, showcasing only highly relevant job posts to a targeted audience. It's built using Bubble, a no-code platform that enabled Alex Cooney to create an initial MVP in just two days and gather feedback on the idea. The app uses Stripe integration for payment processing and offers flexible features such as analytics and recruiter dashboards. Qualified has gained traction with several recruitment agencies and is now working with them to post featured job adverts, with plans to expand its features and marketing efforts in the future.

Sarabeth Jaffe noticed a trend in millennials creating prenuptial agreements due to the increasing number of divorces. She teamed up with Julia Rodgers, a Boston divorce attorney, to build HelloPrenup, a platform for easier and more affordable prenups. They used Bubble's no-code web app builder to create the platform. Sarabeth built a custom API to process different legal requirements in various US states. The company launched successfully, garnering revenue in its first month, and was featured on ABC's Shark Tank where they struck a partnership deal with Kevin O'Leary and Nirav Tolia. HelloPrenup provides an affordable approach to the prenup-creation process, priced at $599 per couple.

Here's a neutral and interesting summary of building a Quicken Loans clone using Bubble: Building a Quicken Loans clone with no code involves several steps, starting by registering for a free Bubble account and completing introductory lessons to familiarize yourself with the platform. Next, you'll design your product's user interface, create necessary data fields such as user information, loan type, and mailing address, and then configure your database. You can then build workflows to stitch everything together, making your app functional. This includes creating an application form with popups to acquire user details, displaying a list of applications in a dashboard, sending data between pages, and marking an application as contacted. With Bubble's pre-built features and templates available, you can build the entire Quicken Loans product without any additional costs, starting from $25 per month for paid plans.

Maja Overgård, a management consultant at Deloitte, was frustrated with trying to build a camper-friendly Airbnb-like service in Denmark without coding. She discovered no-code tools like Bubble and used it to create her platform Hejcamp, an open marketplace focused on outdoor recommendations, which she launched just two months after finding the solution. With Hejcamp, Maja's app was acquired by Campspace, one of the biggest campsite platforms in Europe, in October 2021. After selling Hejcamp, Maja is now working primarily in no-code and has founded her own business, Digital Skaberkraft, which teaches independence and startups to use Bubble. She aims to educate Danish founders on how to break down barriers with seeking seed funding by using no-code tools.

Seedocracy is an online seed funding platform that allows entrepreneurs to compete for startup funds through virtual pitch competitions. It offers a unique approach where entrepreneurs can upload video pitches and compete in "frenzies" with various types of competition formats, including public voting and private judging. The platform has been built using Bubble, a no-code full-stack solution that enables quick iterations and testing. Seedocracy has secured multiple customers and hosted successful competitions, including large public ones with payouts up to $5,000. The team plans to continue improving the platform and expand its business development efforts, particularly in the university vertical and reaching out to businesses looking to sponsor their own competitions.

20 Seven Fitness is an internal app used by gym employees to manage scheduling, customer subscriptions, training sessions, and more. The app has two user profiles: Admin and Trainer, with features such as adding/updating customer info, checking daily schedules, and searching for customers. Developer Hussain Masarra chose Bubble as the platform due to its ease of use, affordable price, speed, and availability of database and workflow functionalities. With over 11 years of experience in .Net and PL/SQL development, Hussain built the app quickly and at a low cost, with plans to create it as a template and sell it on the Bubble marketplace.

The Daily plugin for Bubble allows developers to easily integrate WebRTC technology into their no-code apps, creating video chats and live-streaming capabilities directly in the web browser. This plugin can be used for a variety of applications such as drop-in audio apps, video networking, hosting webinars, booking platforms, focus rooms, virtual co-working, live-streaming, audio-only calling, no-code video conferencing, live shopping, e-learning, and more. The plugin requires little setup and offers various data calls and actions to control meeting rooms, start and stop live-streams, and other features. The Daily team is always looking for feedback and feature requests from users and developers, making it easy to integrate this powerful plugin into your Bubble app.

We are OneDegree Careers, a mobile-first app that helps people find and land high-paying jobs that don't require a college degree. Our founders chose Bubble as their no-code platform because they wanted to make their idea a reality quickly and iterate frequently. With Bubble, we can easily build and launch our app, which offers features like live Career Chats, comprehensive support, and mock interviews. We've experienced significant traction, hitting 1,000 users and doubling the number of skilled careers on our app. We plan to expand our team, grow our career database, and add geo-tagging to show opportunities nearest to users. OneDegree Careers aims to democratize access to skilled careers and increase diversity, with a mission to rebuild the American middle class.

We're excited to announce a new and easy way to test web applications' functions and pages with the help of our friends at Preflight, a no-code testing platform that integrates with Bubble's no-code web app building platform. With Preflight, users can record their own testing and replicate it on different screen sizes and devices, saving time by automating tests on multiple screen sizes. The platform was founded by Mustafa Bayramoglu, who realized the complications QA engineers face from user testing and built Preflight to help Bubble agencies, startups, and users ensure their pages are working as intended through easy and automated user testing. Users can add Preflight as a Chrome Extension after signing up for it, start recording actions on parts they want to test, and run tests on their Bubble app to identify errors and notify end-users via Slack and email.

Quda is a webapp built around audio Q&A's where users can ask questions and learn new things in different areas of knowledge from specialist creators who share their knowledge through audio Q&As. The app allows creators to sign up, add their picture and bio, share their page with their audience, and invite questions. Users can listen to the Q&As or record a question to be answered by the creator, who has an inbox to manage incoming questions. The platform is currently in beta and its future plans include marketing the app, getting more creators on board, and evolving into a crowd-interviewing platform for knowledge-creators. Quda aims to encourage curiosity and learning through audio, with features such as charging a ticket price for access to a page and kids' educational content. The app was built using Bubble, a no-code web editor and cloud hosting platform that allows users to build fully customizable web applications and workflows.

JJ Englert is a filmmaker who turned his passion for storytelling into a tech business, eventually discovering no-code platform Bubble. He started with Industry Jump, learning to build the app himself after running out of funding. JJ discovered Bubble while looking for a tool to build Industry Jump and became hooked after taking an online course. He now uses Bubble to build his own apps, including Jump Studios, and is excited to share his knowledge with others through teaching Bootcamps. With years of experience in filmmaking and tech entrepreneurship, JJ emphasizes the importance of setting small goals and practicing regularly when learning a new tool like Bubble.