Intermediate level Developer - Open to rate arbitrage

[betteredbritain]

To save you’ll an unnecessary read this is pretty a much developer marketing himself. Also any advice on how to do outreach better would be much appreciated

Hi there, my name is Qiniso and I have 2 years experience in Bubble development.

I am open to a new Bubble development opportunity. My ‘unique’ value proposition is that I am happy to work for $15/hour (so an entry level hourly rate) but would consider myself at least an intermediate level developer.

I recently built out the documentation page of an AI plugin that has the following features:

Documentation Page

• Streaming: Supports real-time streaming for ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Groq & Gemini.
• Vision: Supports image and file interactions with Claude for insights.
• GPT Realtime: Supports real-time calls for GPT, lowering response latency.
• Chatbot: Enables creation of context-aware chatbots for personalized interactions.
• Server-Side Features: Supports server-side calls ensuring confidentiality by keeping interactions hidden.
• API Key Protection: Supports protected/unprotected API calls based on user preference.
• No Code Integrations: Integrated with some of the most popular no-code LLMs.
• Object Extraction: Supports JSON object extraction, enabling custom use case development.
• Dropzone: Supports Dropzone which enhances cybersecurity and data analysis.
• Ease of Use Features: Exclusive ease of use features not available on other plugins.

… and therefore would be comfortable with pretty much any AI feature that requires development as I have the know how for each of these features:
Link to plugin page : Bubble | No-code apps

I also have an eye for UI design, please see the project snippets attached below that had to be built without any form of Figma design or otherwise.

I also have a pretty strong understanding of JSON, therefore, I should be able to implement any API integration without extensive help. My main knowledge source is W3schools which I also use as a JSON parser when necessary. Of course when I have issues with the integration I use Postman to debug the integration.

My weaknesses
-Backend workflows I wouldn’t regard as a weakness, but I lack critical experience with multiple use cases.

So in summary, if you are overloaded with Bubble projects, you’re looking for a long term development partner who can take some projects off your plate, I’d be happy to be your guy. Please shoot me a dm or send me an email at qiniso.gingqi@alpha-ed.co to schedule an introductory meeting.

[betteredbritain]

@ricardoalves.tech @J805 @jayson @RapidDev_Team @bubble62 @ryan8 @boston85719

I’m sorry for tagging you’ll but you’ll seem like you really know how to use the forum to generate leads, and I need some advice on how to improve my outreach . Happy (or sad) Monday!

[boston85719]

@betteredbritain

I recently built out the documentation page of an AI plugin that has the following features:

@betteredbritain

… and therefore would be comfortable with pretty much any AI feature that requires development as I have the know how for each of these features:

Are you Paul G who developed the plugin?

or are you saying that what you have achieved is creating documentation that outlines what the plugin does? The documentation looks great though, and I’d imagine an AI could produce that pretty quickly for us.

@betteredbritain

I also have an eye for UI design

This unfortunately is not a real selling point now because AI has basically made it so the ‘design’ focused bubble developer is no longer as valuable as they once were…there are so many ways to get a good looking design through AI that I couldn’t imagine being in the shoes of a designer at this point in time.

@betteredbritain

I also have a pretty strong understanding of JSON

This is great…you need to make that understanding even stronger…it likely wouldn’t take much more than half an afternoon to learn the formatting rules for it. It is important as the future of Bubble is JSON even though most don’t know that yet.

@betteredbritain

My weaknesses
-Backend workflows I wouldn’t regard as a weakness, but I lack critical experience with multiple use cases.

This is actually an area where developers are needed now that AI can do most things other than the real logic of complex workflows which often take place in backend or complex integrations with 3rd party systems.

@betteredbritain

My ‘unique’ value proposition is that I am happy to work for $15/hour

Being cheap is not a unique selling point. If you really want to sell yourself, no sales person in history is able to sell something as ‘buy it, it is cheap’…there always has to be a value proposition that makes it so somebody can understand the ‘thing’ they are paying for can be had with the same quality at a lower price.

@betteredbritain

I’m sorry for tagging you’ll but you’ll seem like you really know how to use the forum to generate leads

I don’t actually use the forum to generate leads. I started using the forum as a learning resource. I began posting tips and offering advice as a way of ‘paying it forward’ as I had gotten so much helpful advice and learned so much from the forum, I felt obligated to give back. There are a lot of developers who go out of their way to craft nice self promotional posts that generate leads for them, but those posts are generally just showcasing the tool or product that they have developed that offers value to purchasers or subscribers. So, the best way to generate leads from the forum is have something of value to provide to the forum community. This can be showcasing a tool or something, or offering knowledge that is not found elsewhere (ie: just providing AI generated content is not providing knowledge that is not found elsewhere).

Most development work for entry level developers is likely found via an agency or from basic tasks found on fiverr or upwork. If you are looking at becoming a freelancer and need to create your own client funnel, the forum is not the place to spend your time. You should focus locally, joining business development groups and communities and really embracing a live community in your local area…you really only need one or two full build projects every month or two to support your needs likely, so there is no need to try and leverage the internet for outreach to potential clients.

Other ways is to be niche focused. This can be done in various ways, and most people would be wise to consider the impacts of AI on their chosen niche. This may be focusing on a specific industry, for example used car dealerships, you can create an app/software that helps used car dealerships and then go all in on promoting that to used car dealerships.

Also, you must understand that marketing yourself as a bubble developer is no different than marketing any other product, so read up on some books, book summaries or blog posts on marketing strategies for 2025.

[betteredbritain]

This is an amazing response. I’m always pleasantly surprised at how developers in Bubble will spend 30+ mins reading through a really long post, understanding the problem, formulating some kind of valuable input and then manually transcribing it, all without any obvious benefit.

How I came about building the documentation page:
To answer your question. I am not Paul G, I worked for him though. Paul is like the a Deepseek level developer but for Bubble. I believe he earns $100+/hour although of course he has never disclosed it to me. He did all of this in a matter of around 2 years. That dude works 65 hour weeks non-stop. I built out his documentation page for the plugin mentioned earlier after using his plugin extensively in one really large project last year. So in summary, I was hired to build out that documentation page.

Eye for Design
With regards to design not being a great selling point. I believe that to be definitely true. Especially with tools like codia.ai that has the ability among others to convert screenshots into editable Figma designs. However, if you don’t have extensive experience to offer and you not willing to be dishonest about it … you gotta come up with something.
JSON literacy:
Paul emphasized this a lot. I’d say after attention to detail, literacy in JSON was really important because it really unlocks a different dimension of speed of development in Bubble particularly when it comes to integrations.

I’m curious what you would think the importance of literacy in Javascript is as a top level dev in building custom ‘unsupported’ solutions.

Backend workflows:
Yea I am definitely working on that skillset. I am actually currently building out a workflow that has backend logic, webhooks and a recursive events.

In case you’re curious. The context of note is that the typical user would a student in college or University and when a user adds a course in a multidropdown (value is changed) an API workflow is triggered. More Context I have a data type of type Course with static admin-populated data. Has assistant_id, topic list other fields as well but unimportant in current context

User adds a course and the event that gets triggered.

API Event that gets triggered by last action of input value changed trigger

Here I change the current day’s topic index that essentially fetches an item inside of the Daily lesson topic list initially fetched from the associated Course. The topic associated with the new topic index will then be used to generate a lesson via a webhook

This is the recursive event that changes the topic index (hence topic for webhook generation ) daily for each Course, you’ll notice this is scheduled for every 60 seconds, but this was only for testing purposes.

Once the topic index has been changed, I set the topic index text to be the associated item in the topic list of the daily lesson

And then of course I do the server call based on the new topic index text. I initialized properly but I get some kind of id in the response in the front end field topic content. Which is derived form the server call made using the topic index text. the server logs show the proper response as shown in the following screenshots. However, the database simply captures it as some kind of id.

Secondly the recursive event doesn’t work as expected, it doesn’t automatically increment by 1 after every 24 hours. Do you by any chance have any advice?

[georgecollier]

@betteredbritain

Secondly the recursive event doesn’t work as expected, it doesn’t automatically increment by 1 after every 24 hours. Do you by any chance have any advice?

Debugging this yourself by looking at your logic, understanding it, and using the logs is the skill that any employer would want to see

[betteredbritain]

I would certainly hope so

[boston85719]

@betteredbritain

I’m curious what you would think the importance of literacy in Javascript is as a top level dev in building custom ‘unsupported’ solutions.

When you say custom ‘unsupported’ solutions, I suppose you mean plugins, which in that case, to build plugins I believe you need to be literate in javascript, but I wouldn’t say that as a way to advise to go learn javascript. Instead I’d focus on rounding out your understanding of bubble itself, especially backend workflows, and json and the api integrations.