Mentored Bubble internship for junior developers looking to become senior developers

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Hi everyone!

If you dont know me, my name’s George, and I run Not Quite Unicorns, a relatively new silver-tier Bubble agency.

I’ve been recruiting extensively for Bubble developers, and one of the key issues I run into is that people have little real-world Bubble experience despite having talent and potential. Why is this?

  • it’s well known that the fastest way to improve is to get fast, and constructive feedback regularly
  • Bubble developers don’t get feedback, sometimes even if they’re in an agency
  • as long as it ‘works’ for the user, they assume it’s built well and fine
  • this leads to issues like poor security, unmaintainable editor build practices etc

I’m scoping out an idea for a free mentored Bubble internship. This would be targeted at junior developers trying to make the transition to senior developer.

I fully believe that the difference between senior developers and junior developers on Bubble is not experience, but rather, a way of thinking about building on Bubble. I’ve seen developers who’ve built one app in 6 months that build better than developers with forty apps over 5+ years. As Bubble is about logic, not syntax, experience goes only so far, and thinking correctly about logic and organisation are what makes really great devs.

In a structured program with a small cohort of other developers, you’ll:

  • build a number of pre-specified apps, incorporating advanced Bubble and editor techniques
  • learn to build hyper-maintainable, secure apps
  • learn low-code skills beyond Bubble (e.g using AI to help create and deploy serverless functions)
  • be able to take a specialist deep-dive into a specific field - likely complex AI integrations for the first cohort, as that’s my own area of expertise
  • scope and launch your own real product on ProductHunt

At the end, you’ll be able to put on your resume:

  • successfully built five mentored and audited Bubble apps
  • skills in complex Bubble AI integration
  • launched a (hopefully 5 star) tool to ProductHunt in one week

It would be part-time, and you’d get direct feedback on your apps as you build and learn from the course content and office hours. Oh, and why is it worth my time if it’s free? It would also hopefully help me identify high potential Bubble devs for my own agency. A long winded recruitment strategy, sure, but it would contribute positively to the community alongside!

To be clear, in this program, you wouldn’t be working for us, but for yourself, building apps that you own in order to level up your skills.

I’m looking for feedback / gauge of interest. Let me know what you think below / message me. If you’re a Bubble developer or Bubble product founder that is interested in contributing this, please do get in touch!

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Definitely a good initiative! I noticed that when you do it for free people are not always that comitted and asking a (low) fee changes that. It might also be good to teach them what to document and what not, a bit of Agile/Scrum and working with a team of devs in Bubble (maybe let them work in the same app, use branches and let them deal with the issues :grinning:).

Second why not offer an ‘advanced’ paid Bubble course for more experienced Bubblers where you teach the right way of thinking about logic and organisation and more. Just a half or 1 day course with advanced topics, new Bubble features etc.

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Yeah I know, there’ll be an application process as really I want 8 max in a cohort.

I consider myself one of the advanced users but don’t think that that alone qualifies me to teach advanced methodologies

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Ah, clear, that might be the way to go. The community will definitely benefit, business wise it might be hard to turn it into a profit (the amount of time you spend on it vs. the devs you get to hire). Offering a traineeship at a higher fee might also be an option. I mean learning from an expert, complex AI integration plus scoping and launching a product on ProductHunt must get quite some interest.

Maybe Boston, Adam etc. are interested. When it is half a day it is easy to combine with project work and when it pays well, it might be very interesting.

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interesting…the bubble AI integration would be great

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For anyone interested, if you message me or comment I’ll be adding you to an interested email list (no marketing emails, just purely functional stuff to keep you up to date).

This course will probably require the Bubble Developer Certification as a minimum as it would not be going heavily over basic Bubble concepts.

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Hi George, I’m interested.

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@georgecollier Count me in please

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I am in too :wink:

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Hi George,

I’m Ashish, a new Bubble developer with good UI/UX skills and a background in working with design agency. I recently switched from working with a design agency to work on Bubble development. In Bubble, I’m proficient in designing responsive layouts.
I am also working on my bubble side project. Your mentored internship sounds like an amazing opportunity to enhance my skills and get insights about bubble development process.

I’m very interested in applying and would love to be part of this program.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Ashish

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Hi,

I have 5 years of experience in Bubble. Could you please provide your email address so I can send you my work samples and resume?

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This is still work in progress and I anticipate being able to run it from October.

Tagging people that PMed for one reason or another and wanted updates so they can follow the thread:

@Kim_Brian @net-tt @hamzaiftikhar0109 @wajahatpunk @autom8 @shilisia00 @davidb @sagevenia @rafi_five @psycholabdesign

FAQs:

  • The Bubble certification will be required to apply just to ensure you have an idea of foundational Bubble principles (else the course won’t benefit you), but the main requirement will be aptitude based rather than experience based
  • It will be part time (maybe 5-10 hours a week) so you can do it alongside work
  • It will be development focused rather than design, and design components will be provided to you so you don’t waste time on UI that’s generally standard (the exception being when we look at advanced reuseable and modular design principles)
  • NQU won’t issue a ‘certificate’ at the end but will happily give references and endorsements if it will help you in finding work
  • It will entirely free and the agency has little to gain from it, other than being able to tag talented developers that we might like to work with in the future for our ongoing development clients.
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Also tagging as Bubble limits to 10 tags per post - @alvinasiachi @manon.guerriersup @alex.esposito.1108 @cyril.legaspi

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Hey there George im not a certefied developer but i have taken matt nearys think it build it course if you are familiar and now im trying to create my own websites its been more then an year me working in bubble pls count me in

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I messaged you already for this. Do check you DM!

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Hey George!

I’m highly interested! Dropping a message in your DM

Thank you :blush:

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Hi!! I am also interested in this opportunity! I do have bubble certification. :wink:

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Hello George! I’m interest in the internship!

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Hello George! I’d love to be a part of it!

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Hi George, just come across this. Very much interested, if theres still space?

Looking to sit the bubble certification this week regardless, but this would be a great opportunity if I pass and there is room?