Bubble
Overview: Bubble.io is a powerful no-code platform that empowers users to design, develop, host, and scale applications without writing a single line of code. As a full-stack solution, it covers all the essential components an app needs to be fully functional: user interface (front-end) design, back-end logic, and hosting environment.
Features:
1. Drag-and-Drop Editor: Bubble.io’s visually intuitive interface allows users to craft their web applications with ease.
2. Dynamic Functionality: Building chats, news feeds, and other real-time interactivity is easy with Bubble’s dynamic containers and comprehensive library of visual elements.
3. Robust Hosting Infrastructure: Bubble securely handles deployment and hosting for you. There are no hard limits on the number of users, volume of traffic, or data storage.
4. Scalability: It lets you boost your capacity as you go, so you won’t pay for more than you’re using to start.
5. Collaboration: It works for individuals and teams. Keep dozens of collaborators in the loop in real time and empower anyone on your team to make changes and provide feedback as you iterate.
How It Works:
1. Design: Place elements on a page using the drag-and-drop editor.
2. Develop Logic: Build out logic and determine what happens as users navigate your application, click by click.
3. Manage Data: Understand how App Data works in Bubble.
4. Set Privacy Rules: Learn how Privacy Rules work in Bubble.
5. Use Dynamic Data: Learn how to use the Expression composer and how Expressions in Bubble Evaluate Conditionals.
6. Create Workflows: Understand how workflows in Bubble work.
7. Preview and Debug: Use Preview mode and the Issue Checker & Debug Mode to test your application.
Customer Companies and Statistics:
1. Bubble.io is used by a variety of agencies and startups. Some of the agencies include Airdev, MVP.dev, Rapid Dev, and Zeroqode. Startups built on Bubble.io include Codemap, which matches no-code experts with founders and startups, and Goodgigs, a career platform for socially conscious job-seekers.
2. It has been used to build over 3,000,000 apps.
3. The platform handles over 3.1 billion page views per year.
4. Users of Bubble.io have raised over $15 billion in funds.
5. On G2, Bubble.io has a rating of 4.4/5 stars based on 148 reviews.
6. It operates on a workflow-centric programming model. Workflows dictate the app’s response to user interactions. Each workflow consists of a triggering event and a subsequent sequence of actions.
7. It provides tools for user authentication, database services, and workflow automation. It also includes a marketplace where users can discover templates, plugins, and services to help build their products. Bubble.io is also working on integrating AI functionality into its platform.