Hi @loh.cher.e
I thought so too and heard this so stayed away then thought well might as well check it out. I am not a programmer but a very experienced business analyst, I wasn’t a programmer when I started using Bubble, but to fix some of the issue and some of the limitations I had to learn some and to create a well designed database, actions and API, even some Jscript. Using Bubble for 3 + years now.
I am on day 3 of the trial and have spent about 6 hours so far getting to know the system and so far I have been able to create a project find my way around and creates database, on my normal website host and all by following the documentation: https://docs.wappler.io
I think you will find the next full version will have improvements to the backend connection process, while it really isn’t that difficult coming from bubble I would say the only difference is the process of creating you database, just like bubble you have to know how to structure your data, but this seems to be getting easier, or my knowledge is getting better.
I would say Bubble has been a good high school introduction but Wappler to set you up for the Wappler college. I wouldn’t agree it’s only for coders, I am certainly not one but I know how to read the documents and follow along - I probably will be one one day.
The 7 days is enough to find your way around and I am willing to pay the fee to get continue access because the actual support Wappler provides is so much better and they update the version with new bug fixes and improvements each week with full transparency of what is happening - unlike Bubble!
If you have never built anything online before then yep start with Bubble, but like myself you will soon come up against brick walls and it will be time to move on! Or you could jump in head first and spend the time you were going to spend learning bubble on Wappler.
But I would say coming from Bubble to Wappler you reduce that learning curve a bit.
What I am loving about Wappler is the transparency, the well documented bug fixes, the support response in the community, very much like Bubble if not more frequent by the actual Wappler staff. Something you do not see on the Bubble community anymore!
You are basically paying for the Wappler and once you deploy your code to your own server, anywhere in the world you get the code and you can sell it - which after all is why a lot of us came to Bubble.
Look bubble is not all bad, it is a good introduction and provides a service for those building internal apps, or setting up an MVP to get going, maybe even get some funding and moving on to production level applications. But over the years I have come to realise that is what it is. Unless they decide to provide an option for people to run the bubble platform on their own servers, improve transparency, improve issue management, support response for paying customers, it still falls into the same category as airtable, zoho, wix and similar apps.
Here is a good article written at the end of last year and it has change a fair bit since then but totally agree with this comparison. https://uniqueideas.com/bubble-to-wappler/
