I’m happy to announce the beta release of my first app built on Bubble – FeatureSeed. FeatureSeed allows you to request features for the applications you use and crowdfund their development.
The idea spawned from all of the features that we’ve tried to request for Bubble, some successful and some not. Hopefully we’ll be able to improve the success of them through crowdfunding.
The process goes as follows:
Request feature
Creator approves or rejects the feature
If approved, the Creator sets a price and expected days needed to build the feature once it’s funded
Seeders (you and others) seed the feature until it’s funded
Creator builds the feature
10% of Seeders approve and then all seeders are charged the amount they committed to seeding, plus a 10% platform fee (this fee includes all payment processing fees)
Creator gets paid and everyone is happy!
At this time Bubble is the only Creator for the beta phase. I’ve created two requests that have been previously asked for on the forum: oAuth support and the ability to create queries as views. Feel free to add others.
I look forward to your feedback and support. Happy seeding!
The sign up button in the menu did not work on my Chrome
In the dashboard. Entering your first name and then pressing tab takes you to the location input and not to surname
Users might not know that the elements are auto binding. I would use a button that says “Save” even though it doesn’t but let it then direct the user to “request a feature” or somewhere else. It will give the user the sense that his data is saved.
Edit.
The info for the “?” in request a feature shows behind the dropdown.
Great idea… i think you could also manually add features from the feature request page on bubble.is, although i don’t remember the url, @emmanuel, can you prompt please?
For the requests that have been submitted, you have to wait until they are approved by the Creator (Bubble). So we’re waiting on @emmanuel to set a price and approve them. Once that happens you’ll see a section on the right sidebar to seed (i.e. fund) it.
Interesting concept. So this app could be used by any User group who would like to crowdfund their own New Features? Is that true? Or is it specifically made for Bubble?
@vega.andrew Yes, it will eventually be opened up for other applications, but for the initial beta release it’s only for submitting Bubble feature requests.
In the future any Creator (company) will be able to register and allow their users to submit feature requests. Seeders (users) will be able to submit the details for the apps/creators they use and FeatureSeed will contact those Creators to ask them to join or the Creators will find FeatureSeed organically and join.
Hey @Kfawcett, I really like the platform and plan on contributing to a few ideas (should there be enough interest by other Bubblers). I especially like the notifications dropdown - would you be willing to share any details on how you built that? Well done.
Thanks @supernaturally, there’s a data type to store notifications, otherwise there’s a repeating group and workflow used to show the notifications. Not too much to it.
Awesome work, Keith!!
