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Reading your app

Chunk 6 of 12 · 53 workflows mapped

ETA 4 min 12 sec · cost so far $0.42

  • Stripe subscription webhook · medium complexity
  • RepeatingGroup with 4 conditional states · risky
  • Custom Workflow: User onboarding (42 steps)
  • Page: Dashboard · 18 elements, 6 data sources

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

Deployed

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.

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  1. 01Upload
  2. 02Analyze
  3. 03Compile report
  4. 04Deploy

What you walk away with

Eight deliverables. Free. Ready in ten minutes.

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

The 25-exhibit McKinsey-grade report

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.

Exhibit 4 · phased rebuild plan

W 1-3

Auth + billing

$8-12k

W 4-6

Spine workflows

$10-14k

W 7-9

Polish + migrate

$6-10k

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Deliverable 02

Your app, rebuilt as code — live URL

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.

your-app.vercel.app
live

Deliverable 03

12-slide PPTX deck for your CTO

Slide 6Acceleration

Deliverable 04

Chat with the engineer who wrote your report

Why is the Stripe webhook flagged risky?
The subscription_updated path mutates User.tier without idempotency. Two retries = double tier.

Deliverable 05

Your design system, extracted

Real palette, real fonts, real spacing.

12px
16px
24px

Deliverable 06

Steal-this-architecture starter repo

  • ./your-app.zip
  • app/
  • layout.tsx · page.tsx
  • lib/auth/clerk.ts
  • lib/billing/stripe.ts
  • drizzle.config.ts
  • …12 more files

Deliverable 07

Three engineers reconcile the estimate

  • Cautious11 wks
  • Realistic8 wks
  • Optimistic6 wks

Deliverable 08

Tailwind config seeded from your palette

colors: {
  brand: '#7263D5',
  surface: '#F4F4F8',
}

The unfair part

We don’t just estimate it. We ship a working preview to a live URL — in your free report.

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.

  • Your real palette, fonts, spacing — extracted from the export, not guessed
  • Your real logo + hero images — pulled straight from your Bubble CDN
  • Your real copy — button labels, microcopy, headings reused verbatim
  • Public live URL — share it with your CTO before our call
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The exact moment Bubble stops being right

Bubble was the right call for your first 18 months. Here’s the moment it stops being.

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

Workload-unit spikes you don't see coming

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

Page loads stretch past 5 seconds

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

Outages during the worst possible moment

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

Plugins break your live app silently

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

You can't hire your way out

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

Investor diligence raises flags

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

Custom features fight the 300s timeout

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

You're renting your business

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

Five questions. Score yourself. We’ll tell you if you should even migrate.

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

  1. 01Is your spec still changing weekly?

    If yes, your product is still finding fit. Bubble's iteration speed wins here.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

The real bill

What Bubble is actually charging you.

The monthly plan is the part you see. The hidden bill is hours your team spends fighting the platform, plus the premium you pay every time you want something Bubble was not designed for.

Bubble · 1 year

$6,768

Hosting + workload-unit overage at 50k MAU

Same app · on code

$1,140

Vercel + Supabase, no plan tier shenanigans

You keep

$5,628

Every year. Before engineering hours reclaimed.

per year

Workload-unit overage averaged at $35/mo from our last 12 migrations · senior dev premium and shipping-speed delta below add to this number, not from it.

01 · Cost line

Hosting + DB at 50k MAU

−82%

On Bubble

$529 / mo

Production tier

On code

$95 / mo

Vercel + Supabase

02 · Cost line

Workload-unit overage

Gone

On Bubble

$10–60 / mo

Spiky, hard to predict

On code

Per request

Predictable scale

03 · Cost line

Senior developer · hourly

−25%

On Bubble

$120–180

Bubble specialist

On code

$80–150

Next.js engineer

04 · Cost line

Ship a custom feature

5× faster

On Bubble

1–2 weeks

Plugin hunt + workarounds

On code

1–3 days

AI-assisted custom code

05 · Cost line

Sell or migrate the app

100%

On Bubble

Locked in

Runs only on Bubble

On code

Portable

Plain code, any host

Numbers from public Bubble pricing pages, Workona Bubble dev rate surveys 2025, and our last 12 migrations. Yours will differ — that's what the free analysis is for.

Receipts

Three recent rebuilds. Anonymised, real numbers.

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

B2C marketplace with Stripe Connect

Bubble workflows
182
Code rebuild time
11 weeks
Monthly infra
$340 → $42
See yours

Internal CRM

Sales-ops platform for a 25-person team

Original Bubble bill
$1,180/mo
Code rebuild time
7 weeks
Now self-hosted
$60/mo
See yours

Vertical SaaS

Inventory + invoicing for a niche industry

Bubble app age
3 years
Code rebuild time
9 weeks
Page-load p95
8s → 0.6s
See yours

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

Four ways to get off Bubble. We’re only one of them.

Real numbers from real engagements. Pick whichever line resonates — we just want you to pick on facts, not vibes.

Stay on Bubble

Keep paying the rent

Time to a working v1
All-in cost
Monthly infra
$150-1,200
You own the code
Hire from any pool
Production observability
Investor-diligence ready
No workload-unit ceiling

Traditional agency

6-figure SOW + waterfall

Time to a working v1
16-24 weeks
All-in cost
$80-150k
Monthly infra
$60-300
You own the code
Hire from any pool
Production observability
Investor-diligence ready
No workload-unit ceiling

DIY rebuild

Your weekends for 6 months

Time to a working v1
12-26 weeks
All-in cost
$0 cash · 3+ mo
Monthly infra
$60-300
You own the code
Hire from any pool
Production observability
Investor-diligence ready
No workload-unit ceiling
Our pick

Bubble to Code

Claude Code + one engineer

Time to a working v1
3-10 weeks
All-in cost
$8-75k
Monthly infra
$60-300
You own the code
Hire from any pool
Production observability
Investor-diligence ready
No workload-unit ceiling

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

Three packages, no “request a quote”.

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

  • Full Next.js + Supabase codebase, your GitHub repo
  • Auth (Clerk or NextAuth), Postgres + RLS, deploy on Vercel
  • 30-day post-launch support
  • Migration runbook + zero-downtime cutover
Start with the free analysis

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

  • Everything in Simple, plus:
  • Stripe billing rebuild with idempotent webhooks
  • Inngest for scheduled jobs & background work
  • 60-day post-launch support + 2 review sessions
  • Performance optimization to sub-2s TTI
Start with the free analysis

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)

  • Everything in Medium, plus:
  • Compliance-grade auth, audit log, secrets posture
  • Multi-tenant isolation with RLS + tested boundaries
  • 90-day post-launch support + monthly architecture review
  • Scalability planning + load-testing on hot paths
Book a scoping call

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

If you can’t point to a specific limitation costing you money or blocking users today — you probably shouldn’t migrate yet.

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.

Migrate now if…

  • Your workload-unit overages are eating real money each month
  • You're losing enterprise / Series A deals over Bubble specifically
  • You can't ship a feature your customers are demanding
  • Your senior Bubble dev just quit and you can't backfill
  • Page-load complaints are now in your support inbox

Stay on Bubble if…

  • Your app is still pre-product-market-fit and the spec changes weekly
  • You don't have a clear paying-customer pain you can name
  • You're under 50 workflows and your bill is still under $200/mo
  • You can't commit a half-time engineer to own the result after handoff
  • You're shopping for the lowest price — we won't be it

The middle path nobody talks about

Hybrid: customer-facing on code, admin tools stay on Bubble.

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

Three promises we keep in writing.

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

We've done this rebuild for three kinds of founders.

  1. 01

    Pre-A founders raising soon

    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.

  2. 02

    Regulated verticals (HIPAA, fintech, legal)

    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.

  3. 03

    Apps hitting workload-unit walls

    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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Not ready to upload? Grab time below and we’ll share screen, walk through what we’d look for in your Bubble app, and answer anything. You decide what happens next.

Don’t see a slot that works? Email Greg — he opens off-hours for serious leads.

FAQ

The questions you’d ask on a call.

Pre-answered so you don’t have to book one just to learn the basics.

  • It won’t — your Bubble app stays running untouched the entire time. We build on a staging environment in parallel, dual-write critical data when relevant, and only cut over to the code version once you push the button on a call with us. Bubble app then sits in read-only as a fallback for 30 days.

Question we missed? Email Greg — he replies within a day.

Before you upload

How to export your Bubble app.

Four clicks inside the Bubble editor. No plugin, no permission grant.

  1. 01

    Open Settings

    Inside the Bubble editor, open the Settings panel from the left sidebar.

  2. 02

    Go to the General tab

    Switch to the General tab to access app-wide settings.

  3. 03

    Find the export section

    Scroll to “Importing and Exporting Application” at the bottom of the page.

  4. 04

    Click Export application

    Bubble downloads a .bubble file. Upload that here — that is it.

Bubble usually downloads as .bubble. Sometimes it lands as .txt — both work.

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You drop a .bubbleexport, we analyze it once, you get the report. That’s it.

  • Never used to train AI

    Anthropic API zero-data-retention applies to your file. We don't train our own models either.

  • Encrypted, isolated

    TLS in transit, AES-256 at rest, on SOC-2 Type II infrastructure (Vercel + Supabase).

  • Delete in one email

    Send your analysis URL to greg@bubbletocode.com — purged within 24h.

What we don’t do — ever

  • Sell, share, or syndicate your data
  • Train AI models on your file
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  • Surface your file in public listings

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