look Bubble,
I am turned off from becoming an agency and being part of this system.
why?
disproportionate benefits of gold agencies. little chance for new entrants or small players (freelancers or 2-5 person agencies).
i get you make much money cos of the top 10 agencies.
but like the german state and the EU, stifling innovation to cater to the top 10 companies, cos your top 10 companies produce lots of taxes and work places, is not the way to go.
as a gold agency this system incentivizes more apps not higher quality apps, which are often produced by 2-5 person agencies. this screws bubble over too as very happy customers with high NPS not many customers with medium NPS promote your product.
i am going to go out on a limb and guess the partnership position salary is linked to revenue brought in. i get that, on the surface it makes sense, yet at what cost to NPS are you willing to do this?
again, please change agency tier names to Large, Medium, Small, (who would hire bronze?), make it easy to select freelancers intead of agencies, and do not show a gold agency for every search.
As a single developer on the agency plan, UK-based, my experience of the new system so far is:
First 3 days: I received a handful of RFPs that didn’t match with my filters on location or budget - e.g. $2000 for 8-12 weeks work. I didn’t reply to these and perhaps I get marked down for that?
I love this change as a company that is looking for devs to join!
The last experience had become a spam channel and it’s nice to see that the Bubble team noticed that.
I was testing here and noticed that even though I selected to hire a single Developer, I got 4 agencies and 2 developers. It would be nice if we could toggle out the profiles we don’t have an interest in the step 4 before proceeding.
Very well said. It may appear to make business sense on the surface, but what if we dig a little deeper?
Let us try this: send a survey to the companies that use the agencies that @georgecollier is referring to and ask them if they believe Bubble can be scaled to handle real volume. The responses will speak for themselves regarding whether or not it makes business sense for Bubble to be promoting these agencies to unsuspecting companies.
Here’s a suggestion for very low-level agency quality assurance vetting: IF an agency’s template or plugin is the equivalent of malware → it cannot participate in the RFP system.
I just spoke with someone who used such an agency (albeit a silver tiered one), and the agency was simply unable to connect to a fairly basic API. After the agency spent weeks trying, the company finally hired a non-Bubble developer to configure the API, and 5 minutes later…
This is one of the things I agree here.
I’m here as a recruiter trying to find goods devs we can afford and every time I get quotes from apps that are poorly built. Don’t get me wrong, I see API connections that are great and I don’t know how to build yet, but NONE of the 100+ devs I’ve looked into, none of them built organized apps that could scale, or even prepared to be worked on by multiple devs (as I expected from an agency).
To be fair, from the 100+devs, only a handful were from agencies.
That considering we’re not even a big app, with only now reaching our 10k users.
The company is offering to start between $1500 and $2900 for 40h week.
Boss is looking at highcode agencies to handle Bubble + JS, which has a bigger pay, but nothing yet.
*I mentioned “we can afford” as I’m aware most agencies pay more, but that’s what I got to work with currently.
