You've outgrown Bubble/Airtable. This is a good problem to have.
No-code platforms have hard limits: row counts, API rate limits, performance ceilings, and pricing that scales badly at volume. Hitting these limits means your product is working. It also means the platform that got you here won't get you to the next stage.
No-code application (Bubble, Airtable, Glide, Webflow) hitting performance limits, row limits, or pricing thresholds that are forcing a migration decision
The specific limits that force the migration:
Airtable: 50,000 rows per base on the Business plan. Exceeding this requires splitting bases or paying for the Enterprise plan (pricing available on request, typically $30k+/year). API rate limits: 5 requests/second. For an application with active users, these limits surface faster than expected.
Bubble: Performance degrades as data volume grows. Bubble's database isn't optimized for complex queries. Applications that work fine at 1,000 records become unusably slow at 100,000. Response times measured in seconds, not milliseconds.
Glide: Free plan: 500 rows. Paid plans: up to 25,000 rows. Beyond that, Glide isn't designed as a large-scale data platform.
The migration problem: Your data is in the platform's proprietary storage. Migrating it out requires using the platform's API to export, transforming it, and importing it into a proper database. This is a real but manageable engineering task.
What a custom application gives you:
- Postgres: no row limits (billions of rows, if indexed properly)
- Query speed: milliseconds instead of seconds
- API rate limits: whatever your infrastructure handles
- Pricing: flat infrastructure cost, not per-row
Custom-built application that handles the data volume and performance requirements that the no-code platform couldn't — without the per-row pricing or performance ceiling
Data migration
from the no-code platform to Postgres (via API export and transformation)
Equivalent feature implementation
in the custom application
Performance testing
against the data volumes that caused problems in the platform
Admin tools
to replace Airtable's interface (custom dashboard or Retool integration)
One honest number to start.
Fixed-scope, fixed-price. The number below is the starting point — final scope is built from your brief.
Custom-built application that handles the data volume and performance requirements that the no-code platform couldn't — without the per-row pricing or performance ceiling
Three steps, every time.
The same repeatable engagement on every project. No surprises, no mystery, no billable ambiguity.
Brief & discovery.
We send you questions, then get on a call. Output: a written scope with every step, feature, and integration listed.
Build & ship.
Fixed schedule, weekly reviews. No scope creep unless you change the scope — and if you do, we reprice it transparently.
Warranty & retainer.
30-day warranty on every launch. Most clients stay on a monthly retainer for ongoing features and maintenance.
Why Fixed-Price Matters Here
Migration scope is definable: current features in the no-code platform + data migration. The scope is audited before the price is set.
Questions, answered.
8-12 weeks for a mid-complexity Bubble application. The timeline depends on the number of distinct workflows and data complexity.
Yes. The custom application is built in parallel. We cutover when it's ready and verified.
Exported, transformed, and imported into the new Postgres database. Historical data comes with you.
Tell Ryel about your project.
Describe what you’re building and what outcome you need. You’ll have a written, fixed-price scope within the week.