Gemini suggested this for no-coding noobs:
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Backend: Xano AI (all business logic, database, API) (helped with windsurf)
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Frontend: Lovable (helped with windsurf)
Is it smarter building this than Bubble? Since id have more control etc
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You’ll know once you try it.
it is difficult to say whether it is better or worse, it depends a lot on the person’s skills.
My opinion is that Lovable for simple projects (for personal use or that you know you have little use for) is better and faster, but you have less control over what comes out, whether it’s style, scalability and security, points where Bubble gains.
You can use Xano alongside Bubble, for even greater scalability. Xano also has some important certificates, but perhaps for beginners it’s better to make it 100% Bubble.
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You have more control with Bubble simply because it’s you using a visual editor.
With Lovable (or similar products) you are depending on an intermediary (LLM) to write code that you most likely will not understand (since we are talking about noob level).
My experiences in general
Bubble: Drag, Drop, Test, Debug
Some AI Builder: Prompt, Test, Fix Prompt, Test, Reprompt, Test, Debug (eventually and only if you understand the code)
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If you have no idea on what you’re building and are unable to describe that in your search, I always suggest asking for the tools that have been for longer on the market.
That will give you options that have been tested for years by other apps already in production, as well as a bigger community that may help you when you get stuck.
Generic questions such as “what is the best tool to build an app” will rarely give you a useful answer. There are dozens of variables for that. There isn’t any tool that is best for all scenarios.
For instance, my point of view on Bubble is that it is the best lowcode tool for apps that handle up to 2 million users; where you’ll need to really know what you’re doing if you have more than 5.000 active users per week (as in, optimize the app properly). It has more than a decade and millions of small apps, with a few hundred being big apps.
Mostly web apps that don’t need real time GPS tracking nor offline data will fit in perfectly with bubble. The mobile feature (on my pov) is not ready and you should not count on it as of this January 2026).
If you’ll have more users than that and don’t know anything about logic, Bubble gets way too expensive and in my opinion, you should look for other stacks using Supabase as backend. The Bubble Enterprise plans are absurdly expensive way above the market and you can’t really be sure what server you’re in, nor have any access to the server logs, but gives you better control on the bubble version where you basically don’t experiment outages from bubble.
For a “no-coding noob”, I would absolutely not recommend Xano + Lovable. I’ve used them all, and Bubble is still the most user-friendly for beginners. Lovable will create a very impressive demo from a prompt, but then taking that and launching it and iterating it will be more difficult. Xano is super powerful, but not easy to learn.
Once you get your feet wet, you’ll have a much better understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of Bubble and whether it makes sense for your project long term.
what about weweb drag and drop? gemini said it uses swagger to connect with xano’s backend to not make mistakes
how about weweb for frontend instead?
Take AI recommendations with a grain of salt. Stack decisions need to be contextual with your level of experience and comfort around the tech in the systems you use.
Bubble frontend + Xano backend is goated. Not recommended without decent experience with APIs and handling / manipulation of JSON though.
It’s been a while since I last tried WeWeb but I remember coming to the conclusion that Bubble coming up on top because it’s easier to work in and doesn’t require as much moving parts to deploy to market.
“Not make mistakes” is still a gamble if you do not understand the code Gemini has produced.
The code for the stacks that support my Bubble apps are AI assisted so I back and forth between Bubble and code often. It’s a lot more exhausting to deal with AI. These days I find it easier to just write my required code blocks as comments and then get a model to write the code. That way I can maintain some level of determinism.
I like WeWeb, but it’s still going to be a two-part solution. WeWeb/whatever for front end and Xano for backend. Bubble is frontend + backend together in one editor and one environment.
It’s hard to overstate just how much simpler it is to build in a single environment vs two. So again, for a no-coding noob, I would highly recommend just starting with Bubble. You can always expand later if you need to.
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I have switched to Replit for all my new development projects. It handles the backend completely and scales easily.
You pay for the AI build credits up front, but my hosting costs are peanuts for my apps…