Starting Over - Redesign - How to Keep Old App Too?

sarsasparillaj · 2025-01-11T08:18:30.373Z

I have an app that is on a paid plan in Bubble.

I want to start over and make a new app that is more efficient.

Is there any way to transfer my paid plain over to the new app seamlessly?

I also have custom URLs, etc and I want to keep the same name on the new app as the old. Seems like it could be a mess.

Has anyone done this before?

Any tips on how not to create a disaster?

mitchbaylis · 2025-01-12T10:28:27.296Z

probably easier to just build it within the existing app

if it’s a minor rebrand or partial rebuild you could create a dev branch to build and test it before pushing live

if it is only a few pages you could create duplicates of the pages and rebuild them - then when they are ready rename the old pages and change the new page to the old pages url (keep the old page as a backup)

if it’s large parts of the data structure that needs to be rebuilt - that can be done in stages in a live app although it does take time and wu to bulk update things and can get tricky to bulk update data and structures in a live app - but it is possible

if it’s a major rebuild a fresh bubble app could be a good option… but you’d have to get all the old data to the new app at some point which could be a lot of wu

sarsasparillaj · 2025-01-12T11:11:52.603Z

Thanks. That was pretty helpful and I went ahead and started rebuilding it in the old app because the copy/paste (to a different app) wasn’t carrying things over properly, leaving me with no other choice.