I am Expert Bubble.io Developer with Over 5+ Years of Experience and Upwork Profile is Top Rated. Help me Find Some Answer of My Questions
If youâve got an app youâve monetized, and itâs doing good, you have a big advantage.
Your whole concept of building an app changes once you understand the monetization process.
Itâs a great way to break the ice when you can show a past success.
Good luck with your venture.
Youâve been asking this question since November 2024, and nearly every post mentions â5+ years of experience.â That alone isnât a strong indicator of your competencyâespecially when your bio doesnât include any examples, links, or portfolio work to validate it.
Since joining in 2022, youâve received only 5 likes/hearts, whereas most active contributors offering similar services have built up thousands and maintain a strong presence here. You asked for feedback, so Iâm being candid.
When you offer to help someone on the forum, donât just say, âI can help, Iâve sent you a DM.â Show up and actually help them in the thread. Sometimes you need to speculate to accumulate.
Best advice i can shareâŚ.My old mum once told me âif youre good at something dont do it for freeâ First you need to prove you are good
Thank you for advice
And i have proven my experience on upwork but i was not active on forum so.
Now i understand what was my mistake
You can charge as much as people are willing to pay you.
Experience counts for nothing in my books, but maybe it does for clients hiring. There are developers here with 6 months Bubble experience that are better than developers with 5 years of experience. Years of experience is one of the last factors I look at on applications. Experience solving problems, though - that is valuable.
Write professionally for a start - communication is definitely in the top 3 skills that make a Bubble developer good. Communicate concisely, clearly and effectively with good grammar, in whatever language that is. Clients will trust you more.
The other thing you can do is have a special skill or niche that sets you apart. For our agency, itâs security. And it means that we can charge an effective rate (we donât bill hourly) of well over $200 an hour, because weâre one of the only groups in the ecosystem that is capable of doing that For other developers that might be designing, I know some successful developers niche down into finance or healthcare, and those industries obviously tend to be higher paying.
As @Bubbleboy above shares, public contributions on forums are also a great way to get work. I hired two of our current developers (@nico.dicagno, @eliot1) from the Bubble Forum. The reason itâs so great is because if theyâre not good, you can see that their responses are silly. But, if theyâre good, you can see that they solve problems well and they communicate effectively because itâs all public. If everything they say is sensible and if they seem like a nice person to be around, then itâs an easy way to pre-vet someone.
Clients will also see that. A good portion of our clients come directly from the forum because when youâre in a bunch of threads, they stumble across you and they realize that you know what youâre talking about and might be able to help them.
Not everything you need to do has to directly win clients. Reputation isnât as easily measurable as other methods of marketing like adverts, but it is so important, I have learned.
I always find it bewildering when you post about this. You yourself posted once about your reflections on your own personal growth over a 1-2 year period. What that demonstrated is you aware of how your EXPERIENCE has helped to improve you and your abilities, raw talent aside.
Here is some ideas on the subject of raw talent versus experience, courtesy of Chat GPT.
What âexperienceâ actually is
Experience isnât just time served. Itâs the stack of patterns youâve seen + feedback youâve absorbed + habits youâve automated. Over many reps (especially varied, imperfect reps), you build:
Pattern recognition: youâve seen this play/problem before.
Procedural memory: you act well without thinking hard.
Calibration: you know what usually works, whatâs risky, and when to switch plans.
Composure under stress: youâve felt the pressure; your decision quality drops less.
Teamcraft & timing: you understand people, pacing, and how long things really take.
That mix turns into faster, better choices with fewer errorsâespecially when things get weird.
Why experience often beats raw talent
Raw talent gives you capacity (speed, strength, IQ, memory, coordination). But without a pattern library and scar tissue, you get:
Good execution of the wrong plan.
Slow or brittle decisions when the situation departs from the script.
More unforced errors (poor risk management, bad spacing/timing, misreads).
Overconfidence that collapses under time pressure.
In many real-world tasks, error rate and decision quality matter more than peak capacity. Thatâs why a slightly less âgiftedâ but highly experienced person often outperforms the prodigy in live conditions.
Quick examples where experience reliably trumps talent
Sports
Soccer (center-back vs. fast striker):
The veteran defender uses body shape, angles, and the offside line to make the speed advantage irrelevant. He anticipates the through ball and wins by being in the right spot rather than the fastest player.Basketball (veteran point guard vs. explosive rookie):
The vet probes pace, calls sets to hunt mismatches, draws fouls, and manufactures efficient shots. The rookie may score in bursts, but the vet controls the game and late-clock situations.American football (QB):
Big arm â good quarterback. Pre-snap reads, blitz identification, protection checks, and progression timing let a less âtoolsyâ QB neutralize superior athletes by throwing before windows open.Tennis:
A craftier player wins by patterning pointsâmixing spins, serving to patterns, attacking weaker wings, and managing momentumâbeating a harder hitter who canât adjust mid-match.High-stakes jobs
Aviation (captain):
Talent flies a perfect day. Experience saves the imperfect oneâabnormals, ice, wind shear, ATC surprises. Checklist discipline, CRM, and âaviateânavigateâcommunicateâ under stress keep errors low.Surgery:
The gifted technician is fast; the experienced surgeon is safe when anatomy varies or a bleed starts. Knowing âthe next best moveâ under complication is learned, not innate.Firefighting:
Reading smoke, construction, and collapse risk dictates where not to go. That judgment is mostly experiential.Investing / Trading:
Bright novices find great theses; veterans size positions, hedge, and avoid ruin. Survival bias favors those with experience at risk management, not just idea generation.Everyday work
Software engineering:
Experience shows which solution is simplest to maintain, how to debug systematically, when to avoid cleverness, and how to de-risk releases. A brilliant coder can still ship fragile systems.Sales:
Listening for real buying signals, qualifying early, isolating objections, and navigating procurement beats charisma alone.Teaching:
Classroom management, pacing, and differentiation (reading the room) turn the same lesson from chaos into learning.A simple model
Think of performance as roughly:
Output â Talent Ă (Deliberate Practice Quality) Ă (Experience under Variety)
Talent sets the ceiling; experience under variety (different opponents, edge cases, failure modes) makes your results reliable and transferable.
When talent still matters (and how they interact)
In pure athletic ceilings (100m sprint) or tasks with minimal complexity, talent dominates.
In messy, dynamic, high-stakes domains, talent without experience is volatile; experience without talent is steady. The best are bothâbut if you must pick one for real-world reliability, experience usually wins.
How to build experience that actually counts
Seek variety: different contexts, opponents, environments (not just more of the same).
Tight feedback loops: film review, post-mortems, checklists.
Deliberate reps under constraint: time pressure, limited resources, âwhat ifâ drills.
Catalog errors: keep a personal âfailure playbookâ and rehearse corrections.
Stand next to experts: borrow their pattern libraries and heuristics.
Bottom line: Talent is potential; experience is proof. In complex or pressured situations, the person who has been there and fixed that tends to outperform the person who merely couldâon paperâdo it better.
One of the areas that jumped out at me was in terms of software development and this little gem, âwhen to avoid clevernessâ. Often we see developers over-engineering things or overusing things like reusable elements due to an insatiable need to use their cleverness. I personally, when having lesser years of experience made those types of mistakes. Now, I can see those as mistakes and correct for them.
Overall, for me, experience is something that can not just be stated as âiâve been building on bubble for x yearsâ, there does need to be a demonstration of how the years have helped gain experience and to grow personally and to learn more.
It is just like life. At 22 I thought I knew so much, at 42 I know I donât know anything, and can only hope by 62 Iâll have figured out a few things.
@bubbledeveloper1 if you have demonstrated your experience on upwork, you need to lean into that and ensure your upwork profile and the experience it demonstrates can be communicated effectively to prospective clients.
In terms of how much you can charge, I believe there is some average of rates in terms of a range of around $20-$200.
Ah, but Iâm referring to years of experience. Time counts for little, but hands on experience solving problems does count for a lot. Sorry if that wasnât clear!
I do think experience matters.
If Iâm looking at a resume, one of the first things I look at is experience.
However, experience isnât ALWAYS a deal breaker.
If the position has the person being supervised by a chain of command, the experience factor can vary.
The higher the position is in the chain of command, the more experience is required.
The more experience, the greater the ability to apply critical thinking based on that experience.
Iâve seen before where someone wanted to start a marketing agency and was asking how to get their first customers. This was on a Reddit forum.
Someone with experience would immediately think, How can you help clients get customers when you donât know how to get your own?
So, my answer to the OP about starting their own business, I think, is still valid. You get a head start when you can show positive results from past performance.
Magnus Carlsen with 6 months of chess experience can beat the vast majority of players with 20 years of experience.
Agree with this. But I donât think of it in supernatural terms. Itâs more like a machine learning model with more training data that can handle more âweirdâ stuff.
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Magnus Carlsen with 6 months of chess experience can beat the vast majority of players with 20 years of experience
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Abit of point but Magnus has way way more than 6 months into chess and when he had six months into chess Iâm sure he was nowhere near beating people with 20+ years.
By the way do you play chess on Lichess? Would be nice to connect with a fellow bubbler who plays chess.
Iâm not the right person to give advice in regard to client acquisition as a Bubble developer. Iâve been fortunate to have found and serve a niche market that relies on services I built and I expand my moat around that niche.
What I do have is more than a decade of experience training people from ground ops to management. The best people are those with good attitudes. Experience falters in the face of adaptability. A good attitude and work ethic win people over more often than not. That said, experience does open the door to opportunities.
So:
These will go a long way to help you charge a premium. I donât know what that premium rate is unfortunately.
10 years of dealing with, and training people in a work environment, should be worth a whole college degree in itself 
