Hi Founders, as vibe coding is emerging, is it easy now for founders to switch from bubble to cursor+vercel+supabase techstack? the reason why to switch is first that with help of chatgpt or gemini I still have to do the nocoding into bubble while with cursor and mentioned stack coding becomes more faster?
what are your thoughts??
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It’s mostly a matter of popularity in my opinion. Non-technical founders often have no real sense of how long it takes to build a product.
They’ll just ask ChatGPT how to build their dream app, and it’ll suggest Bubble or some trendy low-code tool paired with Airtable. That’s why these platforms are gaining traction.
Cursor community is raging lately, which tells me a lot of people pick stacks without really understanding what they are going for.
As a person with knowledge of bubble and Python:
Bubble still has one of the fastest frontend building and simple flow config. It’s harder and slower to do it in code, also if you want to prompt it. Especially if there is a complex business logic you want to replicate.
It’s different if you start already with some code or know the code, and use generators just to create some boilerplates.
Python is much better in doing things bubble cannot (usually the parts you install plugins for) - doing OCRs, transforming documents, parsing/connecting jsons, doing simple thing like querying an endpoint every 5 minutes (as in bubble it will trigger the infinite recurrence), unpacking archives and many others.
You can do most of that via Xano/Supabse - if you want to stick to nocode, but then why not build full backend in Xano/Supabase + some cheap simple frontend.
I currently suggest do things in no code code + do all transformations via Cursor Coding. But… you need some basic knowledge of Python, Docker, Fast API and… you need some security support as currently that’s what I see most lackluster when building with Python.
Another thing is deploying it on the cloud - then you need at least minimum cloud deployment tutorial. Or some person who knows it.
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Ah yes, the regular “this AI thing will/should replace Bubble” topic. There’s lots of topics on this…I happily participate in all of them for some reason. Scratches an itch.
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Bubble is just the topic but the AI-pocalypse is coming for us all 
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I haven’t used Cursor in a few months so I’m not sure what current state it’s in, but I feel like it’s really good at making small simple apps that can be explained in 1 prompt, the second you start adding on features or changing things is when it starts to go haywire. After I had my initial build and wanted to add features, it started changing the database field names even though it wasn’t focusing on the database, and would often move things around on the pages I didn’t want moved around. Then it started breaking existing features for reasons unknown to me. Now, I could have fixed the code myself but I was really just playing around with it in my free time (free time being the time I should be sleeping..) But at the end of the day I felt like I was spending as much time working the kinks out as I was building it in Bubble.
I think Bubble has the right idea of meshing AI with you building it rather than just having AI build it for you and can’t wait for that functionality to be released.
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