Does my approach make sense? Conditional visbility

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Hello,

I’m trying to figure out whether bubble.io is the right software for my project.

I want to build a website where the user

  1. goes through a questionnaire (~50 data points per user)
  2. pays and
  3. based on the answers gets shown custom results (gets shown up to 100 different content nuggets a ~500 words).

Example: If you answer you smoke, you get the how-to-stop-smoking content snippet shown on another page (behind a paywall). Based on other answers, you get other additional content shown etc.

Here is how I would do it with bubble:

  • Get form-input via the bubble inline element
  • Use custom build or wordpress as CMS for the personalised results pages?
  • Get a paywall via the stripe plugin
  • Add custom code to manage the conditions and stitch everything together

→ Is there a faster, less custom solution I’m missing? 3rd party/ payed solutions are fine.
→ How long do you think a total newbie would need to get the basic version running?

Best

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Really it depends upon your web developer experience. If you have been a developer of software engineer in the past you will get up to speed really quickly, once you’ve worked out the quirks of Bubble.

If you are a total newbie it might take you longer.

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Currently, I have only rudimentary coding experience i.e. “built a calculator” level. Do you think 1 week of getting to understand the bubble basics of the tool, 1 week for the POC and 1 week to fine tune all functionality is realistic? Fulltime that is.

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It is really hard to tell. It might be a challenge. But I don’t know your own circumstances so can’t really give you the answer you are looking for.

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These 2 dont need a custom code or a wordpress cms and will likely be faster to build in Bubble directly.

Id reccomend not storing the survey questions directly on the page but creating a dynamic form using db info for the questions and answers…

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I agree, you can do this directly in Bubble. Store the question answers in the database as the user answers each one. At the end of the questionnaire, have a workflow that redirects to the correct page based on their answers.

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Thanks for the answers! Building everything in one tool without custom code would be amazing.

Does this even work with the conditional visibility? I’d imagine one results page for all customers with the following content:
[show content 1, if condition 1 is met]
[show content 2, if condition 2 is met]
…
Is this the right way to think about it?

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No.

You will build your app in a week, and it might work, but it’ll be :poop:. You’ll build yourself into holes, and learn what you did wrong.

You’ll then rebuild it, and do the same again.

The third time, your app will probably be a good enough standard to push live.

This is correct. Given that you’re dynamically showing and hiding content, option sets might be best to use to store the questions + possible answers, though other use cases would prefer them to be in the database. Each Question (option) would have a list of Answers (Answer is another option set), a Correct Answer (option), and any other values you want.

You can then show and hide content based on the user’s Question Responses (a data type/table, which contains the User, the Question they’re responding to, their Answer, when they did it etc)

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