Thanks to everyone who joined our AMA with Josh and Emmanuel today. The energy and thoughtful questions showed just how excited you all are about our AI vision.
Now it’s time to put our AI app generator to work and show the world what’s possible when AI and visual programming join forces!
The Bubble AI Build Challenge
From today through April 22, we invite you to enter for the chance to win $5,000 create and share apps built with Bubble’s AI generator. Here’s how it works:
Generate an app using Bubble’s AI app generator
Customize it with our visual development tools
Share a short demo video on X or LinkedIn using #BubbleAI and tagging @Bubble
$15,000 in total prizes!
$5,000 for the most-liked app on X
$5,000 for the most-liked app on LinkedIn
$5,000 for Bubble’s Choice Award
What we’re looking for
This isn’t about building the most complex app — it’s about showing how quickly you can go from idea to working product. Maybe you’ve had an app concept sitting in the back of your mind, or perhaps you’ll discover something new through the AI generation process.
The key is to showcase how Bubble AI helps you build a foundation that you can refine and make your own. Whether you’re new to Bubble or a seasoned builder, we want to see your creativity. No need to deploy to production or pay for hosting — just build something cool, share it, and inspire others. Ready to start building? The AI app generator is ready when you are!
Yeah. Maybe there wasn’t enough interest. $5000 definitely makes it more interesting. But now it’s sort of late in the game. Maybe this didn’t pan out how they wanted it to.
Is there a way to put in some kind of code when creating the app so we have access to plugins etc without having to put ourselves on a starter plan? I would imagine you guys would want something as vanilla as possible without a ton of added complexity (kind of defeats the purpose of showing off the AI generation features)
honestly I don’t think so? Based on the submissions we’ve seen on X and LinkedIn so far, some people are customizing their apps a lot after the initial generation
Can I still submit my project, if it was created with AI, and then edited alot, but perhaps some features might not work in production due to time constraints. It is a task management, project planning and productivity tool for a niche and big potential users.
I haven’t fully read the rules of the competition (link in the original post at the top) but you’re probably fine? I guess it won’t hurt to try if you’ve already built it.
Post a demo online with the hashtag and good luck
I am going to submit it anyway. Lets see how much it performs.
BTW, I have a concern that many users are submitting their apps, which are either non-functional(just AI-generated and little to no work), some add little to no-value(noise-recorders, AI wrappers), and some are just tiny clones of other popular products and they have quite a lot of likes as well.
So, I think the judges should also take into account individual’s effort, and these should be judged based on likes + value it can provide to potential users. Any dev who has spent 1-2 years in industry can easily and quickly create a e-commerce or airbnb clone, and that would have no initial value.
Because, if a solution does not provide any value, and would likely be discarded after the competition then it would convey a very bad reputation, and many people would not be happy with results.
In my opinion the products selected should have a value and a potential target audience to continue developing(does not matter if the developers does it or not) , and that should be the criteria, and all prizes should be solely decided by the Bubble itself, because I can already see people manipulating the posts outreach and are also getting freelance bot services for likes and boosts.
I can even see some people, who have created a video log of themselves and literally pursuing other people for just 1 like, and that makes me think what kind of competition it has become.
I have participated in game jams and other competitions, and I have never seen this behavior, and people judge you based on your actual output in the form of your product or your services, and provide you with feedback which you can use to up skill.
I would appreciate if Bubble plans next competition around actual value and innovation of a product.
I might be late to the party, but at least I made it in time. I used the Bubble AI generator to make Sycle a menstrual cycle and pregnancy milestone tracker with the following prompted features:
I totally agree, looks like there are manipulation in likes in social media. My suggestion or feedback would be to give the initially announced awards $1000 for social media winners based on likes, remaining $13,000 can be split and given to the best 20 ideas that Bubble team feels, used an AI prompt and did atleast some simple customization and posted in social media in the contest period. That way all of them can use that small seed fund to develop something fruitful out of it that can solve real world problem and has bigger impact beyond the competition. Again my 2 cents, hope it will be taken positively.
Yes, I would be happy if the products/apps selected are useful in some way while maybe targeting a very small niche customers, but if is something generic or is a copy of something, then to make it useful one needs to provide more value then existing solutions and would also need extensive marketing services to make it useful to people, to even get a single user to try and use their product.
A more better approach would be that bubble announces a new prize for next round of this contest, where the three winners compete for the prize, and the best product gets it, and at the end there would be a value providing and useful product which people can actively try and use.
This would effectively showcase how bubble as a platform can help to take ideas to a finished and fully working product, and I am sure many developers and even startups would be interested if they a polished final product ready to use, and actually adds a value with innovation.
If the devs are going to stop working on their product, or their is really nothing much to work on, like how they can get people to use a e-commerce or airbnb type product , while there are already many, and it would not even build trust with users rather than provide a significant value, then there won’t be a proper outcome of this contest.
But, its their sole decision, and lets see who are the selected winners.
Maybe this didn’t pan out how they wanted it to.
