Developer Wanted - Gamified App "Life As A Game" (Deferred Payment + Launch Bonus)

Jobs / Freelance
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Hey Bubble Community,

I’m building Life As a Game :video_game::sparkles: — a gamified self-improvement platform where users complete real-world challenges to earn XP, level up, and unlock rewards.

Core features include:

  • XP system, streaks, and badges

  • Customizable MySpace-style profile pages

  • Guilds with group chat

  • Direct DMs, quests, and in-app currency

Where I am now:

The concept, core design, and mechanics are already mapped out, and the database is started in Bubble. This is not an idea on paper — there’s an early build and a clear roadmap.

I’m looking for a talented Bubble developer who’s excited about building something unique and is open to flexible payment terms in exchange for long-term upside.

What’s needed:

  • UI/UX & profile customization implementation

  • XP, coins, and quest logic setup

  • Database/workflow optimization

Payment & Incentives:

  • $2,000 once the app earns $3,000 net revenue

  • 5% of revenue for the first 6 months post-launch as a bonus

  • Name credited in the app and portfolio showcase rights

  • Simple, clear written agreement

:light_bulb: I’m also open to discussing alternative payment structures such as full or partial deferred payment, or a hybrid of revenue share and equity, for the right developer who’s genuinely excited about the project.

Why join?

  • Be part of a fun, unique project in a growing niche (gamified self-improvement + social community)

  • Build a project that’s meant to launch fully functional, not stuck in endless beta

  • Opportunity for long-term collaboration if the app takes off

If this excites you and you’re okay with a deferred payment + revenue share model, let’s talk. I’m looking for someone who values creative projects and is ready to help bring Life As a Game to life.

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Hmm, so you wanted the person to work as a partner or collaborate with you.

And you are going to pay $2,000 (usually an MVP Price) once or if the app earns $3,000 net.

Then the person would get 5% of revenue for just first 6-months (not the best sales months but just first 6)?

Interesting!!!

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Amazing opportunity! Good luck!

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Sounds like a cool app!

How you plan to get traffic to the app?

Where you plan to announce it or who is your ideal user?

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Interesting take, Gohar. I’ll keep in mind next time I design an offer specifically tailored to someone who’s not interested. This is for someone who sees the long game and with the right partner that % can evolve.

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Thanks! I’ll kick things off with targeted TikTok, instagram, and Discord campaigns, plus micro-influencers in gaming, productivity, and lifestyle. My ideal users are Gen Z/Alpha who love gamified self-improvement. I’m also a college student with plenty of connections to promote it IRL, and my dad - a music producer and a man of many trades who pushed me to build this and get the ball rolling will help me promote it too.

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Just as a heads up, you have zero chance of finding a good developer this way, and there are a few reasons. First of all, you’re only paying them once the app earns money.

Second, you’re paying them virtually nothing with 5% of revenue. Third, you’ve provided no evidence of why you’re the right person to do this app. Why shouldn’t someone just take the description you provided and build it themselves?

Do you really provide 95% of the value in this case, when you can’t even get the app started without the help of a developer?

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Appreciate the final update, Georgiadis. I’m glad to see the vision and execution plan resonating more with each pass. I’ll take that 7/10 and aim for 10/10 once e launch. Thanks for the thorough breakdown, you might’ve just written my investor pitch deck for me.

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George, I appreciate the bluntness though I’ll respectfully disagree with the “zero chance” verdict. The model’s not for everyone, and that’s the point. It’s for a developer who sees the upside, values being in on the ground floor, and recognizes the marketing, network, and groundwork already in place. Sure, someone could try to build it themselves they’d just be skipping past a ready-made foundation, target audience, and launch plan.

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I appreciate the clarification, and I understand that the final assessment landed at 3/10 with a recommendation to avoid under the current structure. My earlier comment was highlighting the positive elements you identified — not ignoring the concerns raised — and the remark about using it for a pitch deck was not serious. Though I take the expert feedback seriously and understand the difference between a risk assessment and market validation.

That said, this thread has been valuable for identifying where my offer may not align with certain developers’ expectations. I’ll continue refining the structure so it’s a better fit for the right partner, while also recognizing that not every developer will be the right fit for the vision.

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Interesting.

Been in the business world for 10 years, and this plan never works.

Have you considered crowdfunding your idea or getting investors? You’ll find out real quick if your idea has any merit.

Sounds like your family thinks it’s a good idea. Are they willing to lend you the money to get this off the ground?

Right now, it’s like asking a contractor to build you a storefront, and if the business works out, you’ll pay them something.

Essentially, you have a hobby idea and are looking for someone to join in on it, knowing it may never work.

Good luck with your idea.

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I appreciate you taking the time to respond, though I’d prefer constructive feedback over outright dismissal. While I understand you’ve seen similar models fail, every project’s success depends on execution, timing, and adaptation not just the concept on paper.

Crowdfunding and investors are options I’ve considered, but this recruitment post is focused on finding someone interested in the creative and technical side of building the MVP.

I’m not looking for charity or a “hobby partner,” but for someone willing to collaborate on a risk–reward basis, with clear agreements in place. The market will ultimately decide viability, and I’m prepared to refine or pivot as needed.

Thanks for your input, and good luck with your own work.

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I actually was trying to be constructive…

because what I really was thinking, and could have said, wouldn’t have been at all as polite as I was with my answer.

I’ve been around the business world long enough to have some real-world experience. Been building apps and working on some of the biggest apps out there for the last 10 years.

Was trying to give you some constructive feedback based on my experience. Having someone help you is one thing if you know them and are friends. Asking someone to spend hundreds of hours on your hobby idea that you don’t even know…and then MAYBE they get compensated is just ridiculous, and nobody with any sense of business success would take you up on this offer.

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I want to address the direction this thread has taken. My original post was created to connect with potential developers interested in working on my project, not to become a personal case study.

The feedback I received from certain individuals here has shifted from constructive commentary about the project into ongoing “report card” style breakdowns and personal evaluations of me as a founder. This is not the purpose of this forum or this thread. Constructive feedback is always welcome when it is focused on improving the idea, business model, or technical approach. However, multiple posts here have moved into public performance, repetition of the same critiques, and personal framing intended to discredit me rather than help.

There is a difference between professional critique and targeted, performative commentary. The former addresses the project and offers actionable improvements. The latter turns the person into the subject rather than the work, often with the aim of winning an argument or gaining attention.

I value differing opinions and I’m open to discussing challenges in my approach. But when the focus shifts entirely to me as an individual instead of the idea, the dialogue stops being productive. My goal remains to find collaborators who want to build and innovate—not to trade personal jabs in front of an audience.

Let’s keep the conversation aligned with the forum’s purpose: exchanging ideas, collaborating, and offering feedback that moves projects forward. If you have critiques, frame them in a way that’s actionable and relevant to the work, so that this thread remains a place for progress, not personal disputes.

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Since I have some time today…

I’ll give you my final constructive feedback.

This is professional advice that has been tried, tested, and has worked.

I’ve done it with my businesses (not on Bubble), and have given this same advice. Our agency is booked through a lot of next year. I’m not saying that to brag…just saying the advice we give works.

First, you’re going about your whole project completely backwards.

Before you build your idea, you should already have users signed up. If nothing else, put up a landing page and start getting signups. Yes, this is a hard idea for a lot of people to grasp. I think one of the reasons it is so hard to grasp is that as long as they’re building the app, they’re still dreaming of how great it will be. Once you put it out there (even unbuilt), reality can quickly set in. However, that reality is what you’re aiming for.

Your app idea may never take off…and as a matter of fact, the odds are against you for several reasons. It would take too long to explain.

Put it out there now and see if you get any traction.

What often happens, is the idea you had completely morphs into something different because of the feedback you get. It’s happened over and over and over. You won’t know that as long as you’re just building and have no idea what the public thinks about your idea.

If you get good traction, you then have the perfect setup for crowdfunding and investors.

Don’t spend a lot of time building something just because you think it’s the greatest thing ever, and will take off. There are graveyards full of ‘ideas’ that seemed like they had a lot of potential.

So, I wish you well with your project, but follow the best business practices for the best chance to get there

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Did you build that tool internally to qualify leads?

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Thank you — this is exactly the kind of constructive feedback I appreciate.

It’s specific, experience-driven, and focuses on actionable steps I can take to move the project forward.

For anyone else joining this thread, I encourage you to use this as a model for feedback, advice, and even criticism:

  • Address the idea or execution, not the person

  • Share reasoning and examples from experience

  • Offer clear, actionable suggestions

This keeps the conversation productive, helps me (and others) learn, and keeps the focus where it belongs — on building and improving Life As A Game.

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What kind of real world challenges? Have you spoken with anybody in the psychology department at your university about this? It would be extremely important to have somebody, with a psychology background (like expert level) to help you craft the appropriate types of real world challenges that will keep people engaged.

I understand the XP/Streaks/Badges are there to give me my dopamine hit, but how do they really motivate me to drag myself to perform the challenge? Why My-Space, wasn’t that the failed social media platform? I ask not to pester, but to get you to dig deeper to understanding what is the reason to suggest a My-Space style profile, so it can be understood what the purpose of the profile is for.

Why would somebody want to spend time in a group chat or with personal DMs on this platform instead of any other chat app or social media platform?

What is the in app currency used for?

How many of them are there? How much money do they have? How likely are they to actually want true self improvement over just instagrammable shares of what they have done? What is the type of self improvement these target demographics need and why?

I’ll post ChatGPT answer to the last question:

Great question. Blanket advice by generation is always fuzzy, so think “common patterns, not destiny.” Here are high-leverage areas Gen Z/Alpha often benefit from, with one concrete move each:

  1. Attention fitness
    → Do a daily 25-minute distraction-free “deep work” block; phone in another room.

  2. Digital hygiene
    → Set app time limits and batch notifications to 3 windows/day.

  3. Media & AI literacy
    → When you read/see/generate something, ask: “Source? Incentives? What’s missing?” Keep a simple notes doc of reliable sources.

  4. Mental health skills
    → Practice a 2-minute “name it to tame it” check-in: emotion + cause + next tiny step.

  5. Sleep & body basics
    → Same sleep/wake time, lift or brisk walk 3x/week, protein + plants each meal.

  6. Financial literacy
    → Automate: 10% to savings, 10% to long-term investing (broad index fund), pay off high-interest debt first. Track spending weekly.

  7. Communication range
    → Learn both concise async writing (bulleted updates) and warm live conversation (eye contact, open questions). Record 1 meeting/class summary per week.

  8. Boundaries & focus
    → One “no” for every new “yes.” If you say yes, schedule it immediately.

  9. Craft over clout
    → Make one portfolio piece/month (code, design, essay, video). Publish even if it’s imperfect.

  10. Resilience & antifragility
    → Do one hard thing on purpose weekly (cold outreach, public demo, 5k run). Reflect on what you learned, not just outcome.

  11. Real-world networks
    → Attend one in-person event/month. Follow up within 24 hours with a specific thank-you or resource.

  12. Civic & ethical awareness
    → Pick one cause you actually touch (school, neighborhood). Volunteer 1–2 hours/month; measure impact, not posts.

Quick 2-week starter plan:

  • Week 1: set phone limits, pick a deep-work time, standardize sleep, open an index-fund account.

  • Week 2: ship one small project, attend one event, do one hard thing, and write a 10-bullet “what I learned” recap.

Sounds like what they need is NOT ANOTHER APP. Maybe, if your idea is a real and true pursuit of passion, you should instead rent a physical space, host events and get them engaged in a real world social situation. Seriously. Get a rented building and put on social events, like the ones listed. Do ‘open mic night’ where people have to speak in public. Do a ‘dance night’ where they need to approach somebody and ask that person to engage with them. Staring contests to develop confidence when holding eye contact with another human.

If you help them focus their attention on what has worked for human beings for the past 300,000 years to keep their minds healthy and reach happiness and success in life. There are not that many things, but number one thing is exercise and a sense of giving back to others. Too many Gen Z/Alpha have mental health issues because of social media and the lack of real life social engagement.

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sorry for the spammer bot everyone. Took care of it

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Well said @senecadatabase