For anyone who stumbles across this post, please consider that it would be wise not to let a few persons opinion deter you from adding a new tool to your tool belt.
With Bubble you have a screwdriver with AI (particularly bolt.new), you have a high-powered drill. We all still own and use screwdrivers, but most of us prefer a drill for all but the most basic of tasks (and by the way, both tools would be fairly useless if you were working with nails).
Anyone who isn’t using bolt.new should be and I am a huge fan of Bubble, long time user and plugin builder. As much as I love Bubble , the pricing model is wrong and the proprietary platform is problematic (Not being able to add collaborators is an unnecessary and likely harmful “premium” feature - #5 by bubble.trouble).
bolt.new on the other hand is open source and uses open source platforms like supabase and expo. Once we build the code on the platform we can take it anywhere we want immediately including downloading it and running it locally if needed.
It already has support for mobile app (through Expo), integrated database support (through supabase) and one-click deployments like Bubble (through netlify).
It’s not that Bubble isn’t good it’s just that bolt.new (and I’m sure there will be other AI tools in the future) are 1000x better. As has already been said, you have to learn the tool to use it well and it’s frustrating in the beginning, just as even though we may not remember well, Bubble also had it’s own frustrations in the beginning.
Don’t take my word for it though, go see for yourself → https://bolt.new Note: You must use Chrome for your browser with bolt or the web container will not run properly!
(P.S. You will run into errors, don’t give up. Do some research on how to fix them just like you would if you ran into an issue on Bubble. AI isn’t perfect it still needs intelligent human interactions)