So over the last couple of months, I’ve been actively looking for unfulfilled needs in the no code community (not just specific to Bubble).
The biggest problems I have come across (particularly on Bubble) are as follows:
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Finding a talented Bubble dev is surprisingly hard (not to be confused with experienced).
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Vetting a candidate for a job takes too long.
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A lot of people post on the forum for assistance and either get a speculative, mediocre or unhelpful response.
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Most (active) Bubble devs get stuck at intermediate level dev and almost never become senior, unless they get exposure to a high volume of complicated problems with little to no support from a team, which ultimately forces them to think in systems.
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The first mover advantage for plugin releases needs to be reversed. Plugin devs will (sometimes) release a buggy, barely documented, unreliable plugin first and get a bunch of installs because they are better than no solution at all. Another plugin dev will release a much better plugin 2 - 3 weeks later and despite being the best product in the market will get little to no traction.
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Bubble devs with little to no networks, struggle to find well paying jobs.
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Most (active) Bubble devs are not in fact no code developers , they just Bubble devs. They narrow the scope of the skillset far too much which by extension limits the scope of available work.
I have started building a centralized platforms, something I would like to think of as a Github for no code that will hopefully somewhat solve some of this issues.
Features in the backlog include:
- Ability to post a question/query and the dev who solves it gets a solved tag with a category. Solved tags on dev profile could look something like “Stripe API Integration (count)”, “RG Datasource issue (count)”, “N8N (count)”, “OpenAI text generation (count)”, “Data Schema (count).”
- Ability to post a question and attach a bounty (monetary value) to the question. You can also specify whether you looking for hands-on assistance (access to editor granted) or instructions only.
- A paid plugins showcase page, ranked by upvotes.
- A strong hire and fire model, where you can hire a dev (after looking at the solutions tag on their profile) for a particular feature, pay them and fire them at the end of the week (or keep them).
- Intermediate/Senior Bubble devs can release use case specific guides that are either subscription based or free. If free this will improve their visibility. If subscription based they have to periodically release a new guide every week, 2 weeks or whatever they commit to. These guides can be in text, image or video format. So in theory you could just take a couple of screenshots for a unique build you implemented months ago add context to each screenshot and release it.
- If this is successful within the Bubble community, the scope of the platform will expand to other highly rated no code platforms, therefore should you invest some time in to learning to build in them it increases the scope of potential income.
- Finally, a dev portfolio page which is pretty self explanatory.
So my first question is, do you believe this is needed (please be brutally honest). If yes, why? What features would you willing to pay for and what should be the payment structure? What features should be totally free?
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this, if this proves unnecessary by majority vote I’ll probably just add it to my portfolio and call it a day. 
After completing this project, I’ll be available for work so feel free to shoot me a message privately.