Hi everyone,
This is the November community update. If you haven’t read it already, I shared a special mid-month update from Bubble Tour. Read that first! You can also read the October update here.
I’m excited to tell you what improvements we’ve already shipped since our Bubble Tour announcements, but first I want to share some big news. We’ve hired a new VP of Product, Brian LeVee! Read his note to the community here. We didn’t want to rush this hire because this is a critical position, and we’ve had an extremely high bar for who we’re willing to entrust with the direction of our product. With Brian, we’ve found someone who we think aligns with and can build on top of Bubble’s founding mission, while elevating our product craft, evolving our vision for the age of AI, and building a culture of execution so that we can turn direction into reality. Welcome to the team!
Finally, there’s still time to compete in the Bubble x Anthropic AI Hackathon. The prize pool is $25K and the deadline to submit your app is November 13. Find out more here.
What we shipped
As a reminder, at Bubble Tour, we announced the AI Agent (beta) which can generate and edit frontend UI and elements, troubleshoot workflows, and offer contextual, step-by-step guidance. We also announced mobile app generation (beta), which is rolling out in phases.
Here’s what we’ve released since Bubble Tour:
You can now prompt the Agent to create new pages. It works with prompts like “create a signup and login page for users to enter their email and password,” and generates based on your app’s existing styles. More improvements to come there, including how this interacts with the current page generator. We’ve also made several updates to the chat experience:
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Responses now autoscroll to keep your newest message visible while the Agent is answering.
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It’s easier to resize the text window from the bottom right corner.
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The Agent now includes clickable links in its responses when referencing specific elements in your app.
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The Agent now shows which element, workflow, or data type you have selected, so you can confirm the chat is focused on your specific selection.
On the native mobile front, the team fixed 5 mobile bugs last month and shipped an update that allows you to test your app’s password reset flow through BubbleGo. That’s available for iOS now (Android is coming soon), and is a much better experience for the developer. Finally, you can now toggle to filter workload usage for projects with both a web and a mobile app. Read more on the forum here.
The security dashboard (formerly Flusk) is officially on the Bubble domain. As part of that work, we also launched the secrets scanner, which detects any leaked API keys in your app and suggests mitigation steps to keep your app data safe. You can read about that on the forum here. Additionally, there’s a new entry point to the security dashboard from the project sidebar for apps on paid plans, which makes it faster and easier to access your security insights (more entry points to come). Check out these updates at scan.bubble.io!
We also shipped some improvements to help us resolve incidents faster, including a new platform for our status page as well as metrics and monitoring. We’re on track with our CI/CD database migrations, which essentially streamlines our deploy systems in a more modern pipeline.
You can check out bubble.io/release-notes for a comprehensive list of other bug fixes and improvements.
What we’re working on
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Property editor: We started early user testing of the new property editor last month (ahead of schedule), and we’re on track for a public beta release in December. We’re planning a thorough guide for power users, as well as a simplified overview for new users. You’ll be hearing more from us on this very soon.
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AI Agent: Our primary focus right now is giving the Agent the ability to edit workflows and data, not just suggest changes.
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Mobile: Mobile app performance and reliability continue to be a top priority, and we’re focusing on that work over feature roadmap work, so some release dates have been shifted out. That said, we did demo in-app purchases at Bubble Tour, and the next step is broader user testing. Look out for a feature demo in the forum later this week.
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API Connector: The API Connector is critical to the user experience, especially because many users are connecting to AI models as they build. Our goal for the end of the year is to move it into its own tab in the editor instead of burying it in the plugins tab.
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Ecosystem: We’re planning to implement the next phase of work to improve the experts portal and experience in November. That includes allowing coaches to handle payments directly, streamlining page / profile setup, and building a review system.Finally, we’re updating our Academy and Brand Guidelines pages to make them more user friendly. On the Academy side, this includes making courses easier to find, as well as a big visual overhaul and more improvements to follow once that work is complete. Our Brand Guidelines page is set to become a tool for you to pull key brand elements like fonts and hex codes. We often get requests from users who host events and are looking for brand assets, and this page will be much more self-serve than it is currently.
ICYMI
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Register to watch Demo Day on November 19 and vote to help determine the winners. Four members of our Immerse: AI for Good cohort will pitch their products and compete for prizes.
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Emmanuel hosted two AMAs earlier this month. Check out the recap on the blog. Save the date for his next AMA on December 4, more info coming soon.
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We surveyed nearly 800 current and former Bubble users for the 2025 State of AI App Development. There are some really interesting stats in here about how developers see vibe coding vs. visual development. Read it on the blog.
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You can watch all the sessions from Bubble Tour London, including community app demos and panels, here.
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VoiceDrop is an AI-powered ringless voicemail platform that hit 7-figures in ARR in their first 12 months. Read their showcase.
New hires
In addition to Brian, our new VP of Product, we were joined by Mohammad, a software engineer. Welcome! We’re also hiring for a number of roles in the NYC area right now. Check out our careers page here.
That’s all for this month!
— Josh and Emmanuel
