Hi everyone, This is the February community update. You can read January’s update here. What’s on our minds Before I jump into the updates, I want to share how the team and I are thinking about Bubble and the AI landscape. There’s been a ton of movement, even within the last few weeks, with a bunch of tools that can spit out decently functional code extremely quickly. But building high-quality software with AI is still a challenge. Getting to 80% is relatively easy, but the long-term journey of iterating and fixing bugs once you have actual users is exponentially more difficult. I think these AI code generation tools work best when they’re being used by an experienced engineer who can partner closely with the tool. In contrast, we believe that the power of AI + the creativity and control of visual development is the best way for all humans to build software and tell computers what to do. Today, Bubble is the leading platform building AI development features for non-experts that are optimized for simplicity of output instead of millions of lines of code. We’re so excited about all the ways we’re going to be bringing AI into the editor to help builders be more creative, powerful, and scalable that we just opened up access to our AI app generator to a lot more people (more on that below). Stay tuned for more on where we’re headed with AI, sooner than you might think! Everything we shipped last month A lot of our work this month was focused on the editor. We announced the public beta for changelog! Changelog makes it much easier to track what changes were made in your app and who made them. The changelog release is part of premium version control, which is available to Agency accounts as well as Growth, Team, and Enterprise plans. We’re rolling it out to everyone on these plans today. For all the details, read the forum post here. Around 40% of users now have the new toolbar, and we’re expecting to ramp that up to 100% this month. This update makes the editing experience more intuitive and sets us up for initiatives like mobile. (This update also makes it harder to accidentally exit out of the editor by adding an additional click to the Bubble icon at the top.) Read more about the specifics on the forum here. Surprise! Our AI app generator (which we called “Bubble Assist” at BubbleCon) is now available to all new users who start from bubble.io/ai-features. Existing users: If you’re prompted to join the waitlist, email us at ai@bubble.io, and we’ll take you off the waitlist early. The workflow tab beta got a few UI updates this month, and we’ve already seen some great user feedback. As a reminder, you can opt in to the workflow tab beta by going to Settings > Versions and scrolling down to Beta Features. If you encounter any unexpected behavior or have product feedback, please submit a report via our chatbot. Also, backend workflows now have their own tab, which makes them easier to access while building. Read more on the forum here. The mobile beta got some new features as well, including the shortlist element, which functions similarly to a repeating group or dropdown element (Update: This feature shipped in the final week of February.) The team is finalizing some internal tests on device location support and is making improvements to Android push notifications.. The team is finalizing some internal tests on device location support and is making improvements to Android push notifications. We also shipped a couple of Boosts to improve the editing experience: When you copy and paste elements between Bubble apps, you’ll now bring the style variables over too. Try it out in the editor or check out the demo here. “When row is clicked” is now a workflow option for the table element. Finally, you can update to version 30 of Bubble, which makes calls to backend workflows API tokens more secure by default. Update your app by going to Settings > Versions. Read more about this update here. What we’re working on AI: App generation: You’ve generated over one thousand apps so far! Alpha feedback on the AI app generator has been strong, and we’re working on making app output quality even better. We’re excited to get this into the hands of even more users in February! AI streaming: For our users who are building AI powered apps, the team completed a proof of concept earlier this month. This feature enables real-time text responses from LLMs like OpenAI. It’s an industry best practice for AI apps and we’re excited to bring it natively to Bubble. We’re aiming to make the prototype production-quality and begin testing by the end of this month. Editor: We’re beta testing an updated app interface manager (the “pages” dropdown in the toolbar) with a small number of users as well as our BAMs, and we’re aiming to release this to everyone by the end of February. The app interface manager will make it easier to navigate between different views, regardless of whether you’re building for web or mobile (or both!). Workflow tab beta We’re adding zoom controls, which would allow you to use a trackpad to zoom in and out on the canvas. We’re also making a few user experience updates, including improving the search for actions to yield more helpful results and giving a broader overview of workflows, not just actions. With this work, we’re on track to launch the workflow tab to everyone by the end of March! Mobile: This month we’re expecting to QA the updated date/time picker, as well as begin alpha testing the mobile plugin editor. We’re also reorganizing the app settings tab by web and mobile. This is primarily a usability update, and will make managing settings for all development more straightforward. Finally, the team is working to bring the debugger into web preview and build out more support for mobile styles. Flusk: We’re continuing to make the integration between Flusk and Bubble as seamless as possible. That means syncing roles between Flusk and Bubble, so if you’re on an app as a collaborator, you’ll have the same role in Flusk. We’re also adding entry points to make Flusk’s security features more discoverable to users. Platform growth and stability: Behind the scenes, the team is in the middle of a big push to migrate completely off PLV8. This is a significant step in reducing our tech debt, and should make our database significantly more reliable (and faster). We’re also improving how efficiently we use our redis-based caching cluster. Essentially, this work sets us up for greater scale. ICYMI + How to get involved We featured Hampton, a founder community built by Sam Parr and Joe Speiser on the showcase page. Check it out here. There are some exciting in-person events happening: Last week we hosted a meetup in the office with a bunch of users from in and around NYC. We got to see some great demos and got to share some of our AI work. Later this spring, Bubble is sponsoring the Create With conference in London. Register here. If you’re interested in hosting your own Bubble meetup, we’d love to share it on our Community page. Learn more about submitting your event here. New hires We had five new people join the team to kick off the year! Welcome to: Jared, joining as a growth marketing associate Melissa, joining as an account executive Zach, joining as a senior engineering manager Pavel, joining as a senior engineer Louis, joining as a sales development representative Thanks as always for reading. — Josh and Emmanuel

Great update @josh. I’m curious if you guys believe, from your understanding of mobile development, if plugins for mobile would allow us to use the camera for QR code scanning functionality? Or is that functionality that would likely have to be built as a native action by bubble?

Uh huh, sometimes an element has lots of conditions that may result in X, but so choice is create and long series of expressions with “And/or” which if needing to be altered at later date means the entire thing needs to be constructed again (painful if these contain searchs with various constraints in them), or you end up with 7 separate conditions on them. The former would be fine if you had the ability to switch up one in the centre in a flash.

Hi everyone, thanks for sharing all the thoughtful feedback. We will be passing them along to the internal team. Additionally, the team released a fix to the styles copy/past change and we are looking into the backend workflow tab feedback. Thank you.

Again… nothing about WU issues…

[image] josh: With this work, we’re on track to launch the workflow tab to everyone by the end of March! Is it possible to keep this an opt in feature? Based on the forum post to that, the new workflow tab still lacks some crucial functionality / ease of use compared to the existing one. I really don’t understand why so much focus is set on a feature that works pretty decently when there are still key issues in the base functionality that are not addressed – and key functionality still missing despite the community requesting it time and time again. I second focusing on improving the expression composer as a top priority. Other things that are imo more important to address rather than focusing on making flashy half baked AI layers on top of the existing product are: Privacy settings based on nested attributes / things in the database Native support for loops in the workflow editor functionality for Unit testing without the need to mock user behavior in the /version-test environment → would be much easier to catch bugs & unintended behavior as we will never test all edge cases logged in as user. adding something like an expression checker where you can see how your page looks in the design tab when certain states / conditions are fulfilled (could also be part of the Unit testing build Native support to attach files to thing after upload / change the attachment later on / attach file to multiple things GDPR compliance (chance to control cookies + where fonts are loaded from + selecting location of db & server resources) Better control of asynchronous / synchronous execution of workflows, also going beyond of the scope of one workflow (e.g. when scheduled API workflows)

check this too… [image] Overcharged consistently for creating a new thing - Conditionals to Secure WF Bugs this is a formatted list of some of my text based remarks… Inconsistent Data Requests: Variable number of individual data requests across similar tests (e.g., 3, 4, or 5 requests) despite identical conditions. Unexpected increase in data requests when conditions are placed on actions versus event triggers. Variable Work Unit (WU) Costs: Creating a “Broker” consistently incurs higher WU costs (2.12 WU) compared to other “create new thing” actions (0.62 WU). Discrepancies in WU charges for s…

[image] josh: Platform growth and stability: Behind the scenes, the team is in the middle of a big push to migrate completely off PLV8. This is a significant step in reducing our tech debt, and should make our database significantly more reliable (and faster). We’re also improving how efficiently we use our redis-based caching cluster. Essentially, this work sets us up for greater scale. Interested to know if this will result in reducing the WU consumption or WU cost?

Awesome :fire: I sent en email as I’m prompted to join the waitlist

We’re excited to contribute to the mobile plugin ecosystem and make it even better. [image] No-Code Venture Bubble Contributor page No-Code Venture contributor profile on Bubble. Build your own plugins for Bubble at bubble.io/plugins

@josh great update, Platform growth and stability is most critical for me, especially to convince larger clients to go for Bubble Are there any plans to allow us to choose hosting location without having an Enterprise plan? Maybe as an add-on that one can buy? We see this requirement for more than half the projects that we come across (we’re based in Germany) and would be really, really great to have!

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