You’re on some website and you can’t find the “clear all” option in the right-click context menu.
Documentation written by a native English speaker is confusing.
There’s ten different million dollar apps on your dashboard, just as soon as you find the time.
You mumble “version control is for the weak” before deploying live.
You’ve tried every possible combination of “insert dynamic data”…and it still doesn’t work, so you spend another 20 minutes doing it again, and it still doesn’t work.
You discovered Bubble by googling “Wordpress sucks what are my options”
You’ve given up convincing friends to get on Bubble because you know how ridiculous you sound getting so pumped about Bubbles.
You’ve tried every possible combination of “insert dynamic data”…it still doesn’t work, so you try again and it works this time.
You forgot how you made it work…
…And you just deleted the element.
This woman saves lives:
This man saves lives:
Dreams are made of mouse clicks and page refreshes.
You grind your teeth duplicating billion dollar products…over the weekend. By yourself.
You still haven’t completed that last tutorial on the app dashboard.
Your normal friends think you’re a software engineer.
Your engineer friends think you’re not.
The app does the thing. You’re a bubble-gineer. (bubble-gician?)
You finally conquered your fear of Josh and Emmanuel travelling together on the same flight.
You don’t know what the color codes on your workflows mean.
You’re now objectively really good at APIs.
This guy: ¯_(ツ)_/¯
You’ve said it a thousand times…it’s a mobile app… but they still just say app…
You know of Josh’s plans to take over the world with this thing: You support his efforts.
You know about the Chinese woman.
You finally completed that last tutorial on your app dashboard, just to make them go away.
They didn’t go away, so you finished all of them on “hard mode”. They still didn’t go away, but you learned something new, so there’s that.
The statement “we don’t use DOS anymore, why should we use code?” is profound.
You pray the client won’t ask to see the codebase.
They asked to see the codebase. You sent a screenshot of the devtools element inspector. Their minds were blown.
A yellow gift-box favicon is the highlight of your day.
Strangers actually use your app.
— CONGRATULATIONS ON 100,000 USERS J&E— HERE’S TO 100,000 MORE!! —
. You often caught yourself resizing your browser while surfing to see how responsive is a website
. You always start a new app with a lot of seriousness (defined color palette, Typography, Styles) and it always ends up with a mess
. You use your transportation time to see new “showcases” on the forum
. You don’t understand anymore why to use Wireframing/UX protyping tools (and you don’t understand why recruiters continue to ask you that…)
You know you Bubble too much when you’re reading a You know you Bubble too much when… forum post.
And you read the whole damn thread.
And you wrack your brain for a pithy contribution to add.
And you add it.
And you start imagining how to make a “too much when…” app.
And you spend 3 hours brainstorming the domain name.
And you actually buy a URL.
And you cancel weekend plans with friends to start Bubbling it out.
And you think their comment that “you need professional help” is about hiring a freelancer to build you a plugin.
You always hesitate at the “Current Occupation:” question when filling out new forms, and wish for the day you can just put “Bubbler” and people would understand without explanation.
Your friends and family ask you if you are “Inside the Bubble” instead of just ‘working’!
You have mini heart-attacks then waves of gratitude hit when your browser crashes, and you remember Bubble has auto-save.
You care more about typography than you ever thought you would, and have your go-to favorite fonts which you rarely stray from.
You don’t have the heart to delete your first app that you ever created on Bubble, even though it’s never going to see the light of day.
You’ve tried to convince yourself to learn to code countless times… but quickly find yourself back home in the Bubble editor.
That J&E were drunk when they named Bubble (<—not the surprising thing ) ** but that AppForest was the runner up with…AppBuilder a close third!**
In all seriousness though, let’s remember for a minute where we were when we first arrived at these forums, all the help we received from all these kind and patient people and do our part to pay it forward.
Guys.
Bubble is going to be big.
Like, really big.
These fine founders and their growing team share a vision to empower and enable us normal folk to build software.
And guess what?
IT’S WORKING
Let’s be just as welcoming to the next 100k users as the first were to us.