Building 8 Apps in 30 Days | Challenge đŸ’Ș

Again, great build, @bubble.trouble!

I don’t know what you’re trying to prove or what’s your beef with Bubble, but for me, it’s still a great choice for some apps.

Like @senecadatabase said, a “prompt-to-build app” mindset won’t work for production-ready apps, and I also pointed this out earlier in my reply. I would take your words more seriously if you said you built this app in Cursor, prompting each feature one by one in a day or so.

Bolt is full of shite—I tried it many times, and it just refused to solve even the simplest npm install errors. (Not sure if it was because I was on the free plan.) It caused me a lot of frustration and stress, where I had no control over things. I’d rather build things on Bubble stress-free for a few extra hours.

Anyways, I won’t respond to these comparisons anymore from my side. You’re always welcome to build alongside my apps and maybe, if this goes well for me, we can even do an AI vs. Bubble challenge. :wink:

Day 4:

App 2 : Gridly - Blog CMS

Progress So Far:

:white_check_mark: Profile Page
:white_check_mark: Followers/Following
:white_check_mark: Dashboard Home
:white_check_mark: Category Page
:white_check_mark: Profile Settings




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Again, great build, @bubble.trouble!

Thank you! After only an hour of work I was pretty happy with the results.

Like @senecadatabase said, a “prompt-to-build” mindset won’t work for production-ready apps, and I also pointed this out earlier in my reply. I would take your words more seriously if you said you built this app in Cursor, prompting each feature one by one in a day or so.

I don’t know how to interpret “I would take your words more seriously”

Bolt is full of shite—I tried it many times, and it just refused to solve even the simplest npm install errors. (Not sure if it was because I was on the free plan.)

npm install errors either mean you aren’t using Chrome or you are having network issues. They have nothing to do with Bolt actually running properly. I’m not sure how you can say “Bolt is full of shite” after the two builds I just gave you but I’m not here to create an argument. Everyone is an entitled to an opinion.

Anyways, I won’t respond to these comparisons anymore from my side. You’re always welcome to build alongside my apps and maybe, if this goes well for me, we can even do an AI vs. Bubble challenge. :wink:

No problem. I thought your idea was cool. I don’t have any “beef” with Bubble (you can check my post history), other than maybe the goofy pricing model. I don’t have anything to prove either. We still have production apps that we maintain and support on Bubble. Carry on with your challenge!

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“I would take your words more seriously” I mean, in terms of AI, if you built the last two apps feature by feature in the IDE, that would resonate more with me. Again, it’s just my opinion, as you said, everyone is entitled to an opinion.
And yes, I shouldn’t have said Bolt is crap just because it doesn’t work for me or I failed using it. I might take another look sometime later.
Peace

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that blog CMS page looks super clean! Did you get inspiration from somewhere?

Thanks! Yes, mostly from dribbble and google Images, for say if I need a dark-themed profile page for a blog, I search on google image, build it and settle on whatever looks best to me :sweat_smile:

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Day 5:

haven’t done much on it on day 5. Took some time off over the weekend. I’ll aim to complete the build tomorrow anyhow.

App 2 : Gridly - Blog CMS

Progress So Far:

:white_check_mark: Add & Edit Post
:white_check_mark: Search functionality
:white_check_mark: User & Admin Panel
:white_check_mark: Post Page - 60% completion
:white_check_mark: Post Like & View Count



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Day 6:

One of the most tiring day by far, but I managed to finish it on time. The workflows could be more optimized, but I’ll refine them later when I have some free time.

App 2 : Gridly - Blog CMS

Progress & wrap-up:

:white_check_mark: Grids Design
:white_check_mark: Post Page
:white_check_mark: User comments & post like/unlike
:white_check_mark: Notification on comment & follow
:white_check_mark: Popular posts page
:white_check_mark: Category page
:white_check_mark: Archive page
:white_check_mark: Search Functionality
:white_check_mark: Complete Admin panel including posts, users(deactivate, delete), quick analytics
:white_check_mark: User Panel including liked posts , add & edit posts, notifications
:white_check_mark: Profile page







Check Here → App Preview

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Day 7:

Yesterday, as I was about to wrap up everything, a cool Duolingo-like language learning project caught my eye. I thought, why not make it a next app in the challenge? So here it is —

App 3 : Lingo - Language Learning App

Progress:

:white_check_mark: Schema
:white_check_mark: Index page
:white_check_mark: Signup & Login
:white_check_mark: Admin Panel (60% complete)
:white_check_mark: User home design

Resources used -

kenney.nl
flagpack.xyz





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Nice how you are chaining edits day after day. Nice streak :smiley:

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thanks @fede.bubble just using this thread as my Bubble day journal :sweat_smile:

Good job so far!

Maybe you could sell these templates in the template store when you’re done?

Not putting anyone down, but some of the templates in the store now are very minimal and not so good.

Yours so far are better than a lot of them.

The store could use some good templates.

Edited for spelling

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Thanks @senecadatabase for support and great idea!
I feel the same for many of the templates in the marketplace, just submitted one of these.

Day 8:

It wasn’t a productive day at all. I didn’t invest the time I usually spend, with 80% of it going into thought processing and only 20% into building. It happened because the day didn’t start as usual, and since I started late, I lost the momentum and motivation to get things done. Hope it won’t happen again in the coming days.

App 3 : Lingo - Language Learning App

Progress:

:white_check_mark: User Home
:white_check_mark: Learn Page
:white_check_mark: User Stats Sidebar
:white_check_mark: Admin Panel (100% complete)


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Day 9:

App 3 : Lingo - Language Learning App

Progress & wrap-up:

:white_check_mark: Units and Lessons
:white_check_mark: Challenges
:white_check_mark: LeaderBoard
:white_check_mark: Quest page
:white_check_mark: Shop
:white_check_mark: Stripe integration for upgrade




CHECK HERE - APP PREVIEW :backhand_index_pointing_left:

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Day 10:

Didn’t build anything today—spent most of the time off the screen. Did some research on what to build next. Some of the ideas are a temporary email generator app, an HR management portal, an invoice generator, a Threads clone, or maybe a simple video game like Tetris (not sure how critical it’d be to build or how it would perform in real time).

Will decide & update tomorrow on what app #4 will be.

Day 11 & 12:

Decided to build a temporary email generator app. Most of day 11 went into looking for a way to make it work in Bubble. Earlier, I was thinking of buying a cheap domain and setting it up with Mailgun or some other rate-limiting service. I just needed to listen to webhooks for new emails and allow users to create emails on that domain, but since this is not for some production, that much hassle is not worth it.

When I was about to drop this app idea, ChatGPT showed the way and suggested a service called Mail.tm (that’s where LLMs are really useful I might not have found it through a Google search). It’s an API-based temp email service.

So, I started building the app on day 12. Since there weren’t many UIs and pages, just needed to set up API calls and make proper use of them. I completed the build in a day!

App 4 : Temporary Email Generator App

Progress & wrap-up:

:white_check_mark: Temp. mailbox
:white_check_mark: Saved account in local storage so the user can re-access the mailbox
:white_check_mark: Mailbox delete
:white_check_mark: Message delete
:white_check_mark: Change mailbox
:white_check_mark: Copy to clipboard



CHECK HERE - TEMPORARY EMAIL APP PREVIEW

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Day 13, 14 & 15:

I didn’t get a chance to write here since I was ahead of schedule and completed four apps. So, I slowed down a bit and worked on my personal website, heybuildit.com, which I built entirely in Next.js.

I was also out of ideas for what to build next - almost everything has already been built on Bubble making it hard to find a unique angle. That left me with two choices: either create a similar app but with better features or keep searching for something new.

I wasted a lot of time yesterday but finally decided to build a clone of Skool, a community platform.
If you’ve been following this thread and have a suggestion for next app, drop a reply—I’d love to hear your ideas!

Progess-

:white_check_mark: Database schema
:white_check_mark: Login/signup
:white_check_mark: index page
:white_check_mark: profile page

Will aim to finish it by day 18

Day 16- 18:

Completed basic version of community app like skool

Progess-

:white_check_mark: community page
:white_check_mark: community edit/create
:white_check_mark: post in community
:white_check_mark: community category
:white_check_mark: post like and comment






App preview - https://skool-47500.bubbleapps.io/