Drop your .bubble export — our AI reads every workflow, names every risk, and ships you a McKinsey-grade rebuild plan with real numbers. Then we'll rebuild it with Claude Code at ~2× the speed of a traditional agency.
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Reading your app
Chunk 6 of 12 · 53 workflows mapped
ETA 4 min 12 sec · cost so far $0.42
Exhibit 4 · Phased rebuild plan
Ship the first slice in 3 weeks, full migration in 9
W 1-3
Auth · billing · Stripe
$8-12k
W 4-6
Spine workflows
$10-14k
W 7-9
Polish + migration
$6-10k
Mid-tier total
$24-36k
Three Engineers (median)
8 weeks
Your app, rebuilt as code — live on Vercel
Opus 4.7 read your design system + screenshots, generated a Next.js + Tailwind project, shipped to Vercel. Total time: 2 min 12 sec.
What you walk away with
One .bubble file in, a McKinsey-grade report out — plus the working code, the design system, the live preview, and the chat that explains every choice. No call required to see it.
Deliverable 01
Cover · Mirror · Executive · Spine workflows · Architecture before/after · Phased plan · Three engineers · Risk register · Budget breakdown · Migration playbook. Every claim is grounded in your own export.
W 1-3
Auth + billing
$8-12k
W 4-6
Spine workflows
$10-14k
W 7-9
Polish + migrate
$6-10k
Deliverable 02
Opus 4.7 reads your design system + screenshots of your live app, writes a Next.js + Tailwind project that matches your look, and we ship it to Vercel.
Deliverable 03
Deliverable 04
subscription_updated path mutates User.tier without idempotency. Two retries = double tier.Deliverable 05
Real palette, real fonts, real spacing.
Deliverable 06
Deliverable 07
Deliverable 08
colors: {
brand: '#7263D5',
surface: '#F4F4F8',
}The unfair part
Same engine we’d use in week one. Opus 4.7 reads your design system + takes screenshots of your live Bubble app + writes a Next.js + Tailwind project that matches your look + we deploy it to Vercel. End-to-end ~3 minutes after the analysis finishes. Click around it.
The exact moment Bubble stops being right
We’re not platform-bashing. Bubble shipped your MVP. But once your app has paying customers, an engineer or two, and an investor conversation in the calendar — eight specific things start to break in the same order, in every Bubble app we see. These are them, in their owners’ own words.
7M
workload units in 24h
One forum post · $1k surprise bill · no hard cap, no kill-switch
5.8s
P50 page load
After heavy optimization · target was sub-2s
0%
of your code is yours
Can't export, can't fork, can't audit, can't sell separately
April 2023 · the moment the relationship visibly broke
Bubble announced a pricing-model change so badly received that co-founder Emmanuel Straschnov publicly disclosed receiving “physical — or death — threats” on Twitter. The community thread reached 2,000+ replies in days. Bubble eventually walked back specific WU costs by 50-99% — but trust at the power-user layer never fully recovered.
Source: @estraschnov on X (April 13, 2023) · Bubble’s walk-back thread
01
One bad recursive workflow burns through your monthly budget in a single night. No hard cap, no kill-switch, no alert until 23 hours after the spike.
“$1k is about 7x my normal bill”
— mitchbaylis · Bubble Forum
7M WU
in 24h · $1k overage
02
Every workflow, every long list, every nested repeating group eats your capacity units. Optimization plateaus by the time you actually need it.
“P50 and P99 page load duration are ~5.8 seconds. I've already heavily optimized.”
— Bubble Forum
5.8s
P50 + P99 page load
03
Bubble's own status page shows instability almost every day in 2024-2025. Editor crashes mid-feature, frontend goes down mid-demo, paying customers see error screens.
“Can't load the editor to fix something ahead of an important demo this morning. Major system outage.”
— Bubble Forum
every day
platform instability 2025
04
Plugin updates ship without notice. The unpkg CDN they depend on goes down. You can't roll back. Bubble themselves admit it in their March 2025 stability update.
“My live version it's fully bugged cuz of plugin update… but can't roll back.”
— Bubble Forum
no rollback
plugin updates are silent
05
Bubble specialists charge a 40-60% premium over Next.js engineers and the pool is a tenth the size. Try backfilling a senior Bubble dev before your funding round.
“Engineers do not want to work in Bubble.”
— Brilworks teardown
0.1×
talent pool vs JS
06
Series A diligence asks for code ownership, infra portability, SOC 2 evidence at YOUR app level (not just Bubble's). 'It's on Bubble' becomes a re-tooling conversation before the wire.
“When bigger customers ask about data security, SOC 2 compliance, or where their data lives, Bubble's shared infrastructure becomes a liability.”
— AlterSquare
3 of 5
Series A funds flag Bubble
07
Workflows over 5 minutes time out. Recursive logic gets throttled. Modern AI / real-time / long-running anything requires plugin-land or JavaScript-on-page hacks.
“Need to use a reasoning model for one of my workflows, but this will take 1-2 minutes. Bubble's backend workflows time out…”
— Bubble Forum
300s cap
hard backend workflow limit
08
Bubble owns the runtime, the editor, the pricing, and the roadmap. One platform decision — a tier change, a feature deprecation, an acquisition — and your app changes with it.
“Bubble STILL does not allow source code export, which is inexcusable today.”
— Trustpilot review
0%
code portability
50,000
records
Sorted search starts breaking above this size · Brilworks teardown
300s
hard workflow timeout
Bubble docs · any reasoning model / long-running task gets killed
$10K
monthly ops · wake-up call
AlterSquare's threshold to seriously consider migration
Quotes pulled verbatim from public Bubble Forum threads, Trustpilot reviews, and our last 12 production migrations. Even Petter Amlie’s official Bubble performance guide can only optimise a real app down to ~3s page load. Your app may dodge some of these — the free 10-min report tells you which ones bite hardest in your specific case.
The 30-second self-check
Adapted from the playbook the biggest Bubble agency uses to decide stay-vs-move. We use it the same way on every discovery call — now you can do it before booking one.
0 of 5 answered
01Is your spec still changing weekly?
If yes, your product is still finding fit. Bubble's iteration speed wins here.
02Are you spread across multiple tools (Xano, Zapier, Make, Postgres) just to keep it working?
Multi-tool sprawl is one of the loudest signals an app has outgrown Bubble's runtime.
03Has your team grown past what one Bubble screen can hold?
Bubble apps creak when more than 1-2 engineers work on them at once.
04Are you shipping serious AI / real-time / long-running features in the next 12 months?
Bubble's 300s workflow timeout and plugin-based AI hooks fight this directly.
05Is the platform — WU spikes, outages, plugin breakage — actively slowing you down?
This is the operating-pain question. 'Yes' means the cost of staying now exceeds the cost of leaving.
Receipts
Clients prefer not to be publicly named — Bubble is a partner ecosystem and we respect that. The numbers below are exactly what we shipped.
Marketplace
Internal CRM
Vertical SaaS
When you become a customer, we’ll ask for permission to add yours here too — with whatever attribution you’re comfortable with. NDA- friendly versions like the ones above are the default.
Side by side
Real numbers from real engagements. Pick whichever line resonates — we just want you to pick on facts, not vibes.
Keep paying the rent
6-figure SOW + waterfall
Your weekends for 6 months
Claude Code + one engineer
Numbers from analyses we’ve actually shipped. Your specific app may land higher or lower — the free 10-min report gives you yours.
Public pricing
Most agencies hide their prices. We don't. These are full delivery numbers — your actual quote ships in the free analysis, calibrated to your specific workflow density.
Simple
$8k–$15k
Pays back in ~5 months vs. Bubble Personal ($29/mo + WUs)
Pre-PMF app with one revenue path. Auth + a handful of workflows.
Up to 5 screens · simple data model · 1-2 integrations
Medium · most common
$18k–$32k
Pays back in ~6 months vs. Bubble Production ($115/mo + WUs)
Live paying app. Stripe billing, 10-25 workflows, role-based access.
Up to 15 screens · multi-tenant data · 3-5 integrations
Complex
$40k–$75k
Pays back in ~4 months vs. Bubble Production+ ($349-529/mo + WUs)
Post-A SaaS. Compliance, multi-region, 25+ workflows, real volume.
25+ screens · enterprise data model · compliance (HIPAA / SOC2-ready)
Numbers above are full-delivery quotes — already include AI-acceleration so they're ~40-60% under what a traditional agency would charge for the same scope. Real quote ships with the free analysis.
The honest take
Half the calls we take end with us telling the founder to stay on Bubble for now. We’d rather lose a deal than ship a $30k rebuild someone didn’t need.
The middle path nobody talks about
You don’t have to rebuild everything to fix the loud problems. Most customers run hybrid permanently — landing pages, signup flow, paying user experience and the spine workflows move to code; admin dashboards, internal CRM, low-traffic ops tools stay on Bubble. Half the cost, half the risk, all of the speed/SOC2/diligence wins where they actually matter.
Mentioned on the call by default — we score what makes sense to move and what doesn’t.
Risk reversal
Most agencies hide behind “best-effort.” We don't. The numbers in your analysis are the numbers on the contract; if we miss them, we fix it or refund it.
Two-week free trial
First two weeks are at our risk. If you're not visibly ahead of where Bubble would put you by day 14 — slower load, fewer features, weaker tests — you pay $0 and walk. We eat the cost.
Hit the quote or refund the milestone
The numbers in your free analysis become contract numbers. If we miss a milestone — any reason, any phase — that milestone is refunded in full. No revisions clock, no upcharge.
Your code, your repo, your IP — day one
GitHub org transferred to you before the first commit. We push as collaborators; you own everything. The day we stop, you keep the repo, the CI, the runbook, the staging environments, the lot.
Who this is for
Investors want code ownership before they wire. We've shipped this exact migration into closed Series A diligence — the rebuild was the last green box.
Bubble's privacy rules don't survive a real compliance audit. We rebuild on Supabase RLS + audit logging + secrets posture that passes SOC 2 prep without re-engineering.
Bubble's pricing scales with usage, not with revenue. The Production+ tier is $349-529/mo before WU overage — your eight-hundredth user costs more than your first thousand.
Or skip the file
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FAQ
Pre-answered so you don’t have to book one just to learn the basics.
Question we missed? Email Greg — he replies within a day.
Before you upload
Four clicks inside the Bubble editor. No plugin, no permission grant.
Inside the Bubble editor, open the Settings panel from the left sidebar.
Switch to the General tab to access app-wide settings.
Scroll to “Importing and Exporting Application” at the bottom of the page.
Bubble downloads a .bubble file. Upload that here — that is it.
Bubble usually downloads as .bubble. Sometimes it lands as .txt — both work.
Privacy
You drop a .bubbleexport, we analyze it once, you get the report. That’s it.
Anthropic API zero-data-retention applies to your file. We don't train our own models either.
TLS in transit, AES-256 at rest, on SOC-2 Type II infrastructure (Vercel + Supabase).
Send your analysis URL to greg@bubbletocode.com — purged within 24h.
What we don’t do — ever
Full retention + storage details live in the privacy policy.
We fetch your homepage, look at response time, page weight, plugin signals, and Bubble-runtime fingerprints. Instant readout on screen + a copy in your inbox. If you want the deep version, drop the .bubble export.
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