Bubble Is Global v2 is live: live deploys, mobile rankings, and dev profiles

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Hi everyone,

I’m Fede, Community lead at Bubble. Some of you might remember Bubble Is Global from late last year; if you don’t, it’s the really cool interactive map at bubble.io/global where we featured the top Bubble apps in each country. It was our way of showing how far this community had spread across the globe.

That version was a snapshot, frozen in time (aka the numbers were static). Today we’re launching v2 of the map, and this time it’s alive.

Open bubble.io/global and you’ll see launches lighting up across the map as apps go live. Every time a Bubble app goes live somewhere in the world, it registers on the map (with a roughly two-minute delay).

Here’s what’s changed since last year.

What’s new

A live launch feed. App launches show up on the map in near real time, so at any given moment you’re watching the community build.

Rankings that refresh every day. Each country’s rankings are built from apps’ last 30 days of traffic, and they update daily. Your spot stays current as your app grows instead of being locked to a single snapshot.

An ALL / WEB / MOBILE filter. You can filter the whole map by platform to see the top web apps, the top native mobile apps, or both, per country.

Richer builder profiles. Featured builders get a real profile now: a logo, a story, and screenshots of what you built,

How profiles work now

Your profile lives right on the map. Click your app and a short pop-up walks you through the profile update in three steps: the basics (name, tagline, founder info, app URL, industry, location), your imagery (logo, hero image, screenshots), and a quick review before you submit.

Every submission goes through a quick good-faith review before it goes live, so it won’t appear instantly. We aim to publish within three business days of submission.

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Mobile is on the map for the first time

This one’s a big deal for us. Native mobile apps now share the map with web apps for the first time. Toggle the MOBILE filter and you’ll see which builders are shipping native iOS and Android apps, ranked by country.

In some countries the mobile rankings are still sparse, since native mobile is newer than web. But for the builders who’ve been quietly shipping mobile apps, often on the same backend and database as their web app, this is your moment on the map.

If you’ve built a mobile app and don’t see it featured yet, submit it through the form to be considered as the rankings update.

Come see it (and tell us what you think)

The map is alive and your profile is there to claim. Head to bubble.io/global, switch between web and mobile to see what’s there.

If you find something worth sharing, whether it’s your own app, a builder in your country, or something that caught your eye from across the world, post it with #BubbleIsGlobal so other builders can find it.

Feedback on the map is always welcome btw! Let me know in the comments below.

— Fede and the Bubble team

Edit: adding this cool video :smiley:

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Ah ok, I guess I missed that. Thanks!

:+1:

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@sudsy You are opted out by default - we only publicly show apps when we have the user’s consent

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@theo.goldberg, can you elaborate a bit? I don’t understand how one opts in. One of my apps ranks near the top in my state; yet I don’t recall ever submitting it or granting permission for such exposure. I realize it’s the web and the site is public, but I’d like to better understand how you guys determine that an app is newly “launched” or how one goes about submitting or approving an app for this exposure.

Don’t get me wrong; it totally cool. I just want to better understand.

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Interestingly, just after creating this post, I got an email with the subject line “Congrats! You’re one of United States’s top builders”. I’d just like to better understand how that determination is made. Is it strictly page views or what? Thanks for the clarification.

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@sudsy to share more context: your app is ranking within its region. For the US, since it’s our biggest market, we subdivide by state, so you have a ranking within your state.

We only share your state-level ranking with you privately via the email you received, and on Bubble Is Global when you’re logged in. If you open Bubble in an incognito tab in your state, your apps ranking will not be visible.

If you’d like to feature your app and its ranking publicly, click the Feature My App CTA. It opens a pop-up asking for your app’s name, URL, screenshots, etc. Once you submit and our team reviews it, your app will be publicly visible.

See Oregon state, for example: three apps were publicly submitted. All other top-ranking apps could choose to be added or not.

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Is the rank based on page views? Is it based on every app ever created in that region or “active apps in the last year” or something like that? And can we see the percentile?

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great initiative guys. Where can i claim my profile and add more detials about my app? I clicked the button in the email but just brings me to the map!!

Cheers

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@adig You can open the map on your country/region, and if you click “feature my app”, you can enter you app info and submit for review. You can also generate social assets to use to brag online :slight_smile:

Let us know if you have any more questions!

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Thanks Theo. I did already and it ranks high :slight_smile: how can I find mine? That’s my question. is there a top 50?

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@adig awesome our team will review and approve it asap (likely today). Congrats! :clap:

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cheers. however, how will I be able to see it on the globe there? :slight_smile: is there a search funcitonality by business or?

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@adig - Once we approve it, it will appear on the map when looking at your region. We don’t have a global app search feature at the moment (you can only search for regions) but could definitely consider it in future updates so I’ll pass this feedback to the team!

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@theo.goldberg is the stat we see of launches live per hour showing every deploy to live or is it only first time live deployments, like a new app going live for the very first time or could it be reporting just an update to an existing app?

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Hi @fede.bubble ! I was informed that my app was ranked, but when select “Claim My Profile” and I log in to view the map, it says I don’t have an app that was ranked.

It is interesting to note that the email uses my old web name, rather than the updated one. I wonder if this has something to do with it.

All good if not! Thank you

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Another reason why Bubble will die. Consistently spending effort on stuff like this that doesn’t improve the Developer’s experience whether that be time to build things, or quality of things that can be built (without hacky time consuming work-arounds).

Bubble was positioned so well to dominate this space, instead they’ve stuffed around with gimmicky ‘investor’ focussed features. They’ve lost so much ground to Claude and other AI.

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If I don’t see this option of “Feature my app” and "Generate Social, " what should I assume? Is this not supported in my region, or do my apps not qualify for this?

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Are you saying that a company shouldn’t invest in… marketing?

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No, I’m saying that the PRIORITY should be on delivering value to existing users, which would have in turn delivered the marketing they need (more successful and beautiful apps on bubble = returning Developers, and more potential Developers).

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I received the “Congrats! You’re one of the top builders” email and opened the Bubble Is Global map.

However, I don’t see the “Feature my app” or “Generate social” buttons anywhere. The page only says that I don’t have an app that ranks.

Is there something specific I need to do before those buttons appear, or could this be a sync issue with the Bubble Is Global page?