Opinion: The Time Has Come for Bubble.io to Reconsider Its Future

[randomanon]

Are you legit a time traveler from the year 2016?

90% of the userbase is on the verge of switching to AI tools. Bubble has plenty of competitors now. Bubble actually had competitors even in 2016, they just weren’t very good (noodl). The cost of code is rapidly converging to 0. Bubble already has an insane markup compared to cloud services like Vercel, which already have an insane markup from cloud services like AWS, which themselves have an insane markup compared to VPSes. That’s ignoring the extreme price gouging with Enterprise, where the minimum they charge is $3K a month.

@randomanon

Let me tell you what the real issue is. You have three categories of products, frontend platforms (weweb, toddle, etc.), backend platforms (xano, supabase, etc.), and what I charitably refer to as “Slop Builders” (Bolt, Loveable, etc.). There is a secret fourth category which is actually just one product (replit). They may not be actively aware of it right now but all of them will eventually converge to the same point (Bubble). You guys had the early vision figured out a long time before anyone else, and you had a 10 year head start. But they are rapidly closing in due to AI. They are coming for your “Day 2.”