Bubble got you to product-market fit. Now it's the thing slowing you down.
When Bubble's workflow limitations, performance constraints, or data model rigidity become your primary engineering bottleneck, it's time to rebuild. We take founders from Bubble to a real codebase — fixed scope, fixed price.
Your Bubble app has hit the performance wall, the workflow limit, or the data model ceiling. You're spending more time working around Bubble's limitations than building features your users actually want.
Bubble is genuinely excellent for building a functional web application prototype without code. Thousands of founders have taken ideas to paying customers on Bubble, and for those use cases, it's the right tool. The problem isn't Bubble — it's that Bubble's architecture has a specific ceiling, and when your product grows past it, the tool that enabled your early growth becomes the primary obstacle to your next phase.
The Bubble performance ceiling shows up in database queries. Bubble's database doesn't support JOINs, indexes in the traditional sense, or query optimisation — every search runs a full scan. At low data volumes, this is invisible. At 50,000+ records with complex search conditions, you start seeing 3–8 second load times on core application views. Users notice, churn increases, and the engineering team spends cycles debugging a performance problem that has no solution within the Bubble platform.
The workflow complexity ceiling shows up when your product logic becomes too intricate for visual workflows to express clearly. Bubble workflows are powerful for simple CRUD operations, but conditional branching across multiple data types, asynchronous operations, and complex business rules become debugging nightmares in a visual workflow environment that has no unit testing, no version control for individual workflows, and no stack traces.
The platform dependency ceiling shows up when you realise you have no way to move your product off Bubble without rebuilding it. The "no-code" in no-code means the code isn't yours — it lives in Bubble's infrastructure, and if Bubble's pricing changes, their platform has an outage, or they discontinue a feature you depend on, you have no recourse.
A production web application that does everything your Bubble app does — without the performance ceiling, the workflow complexity, or the platform dependency — built on a codebase you own and a developer relationship you can trust.
Schema reconstruction
Your Bubble data types become properly normalised Postgres tables with foreign key relationships, indexes on query fields, and the relational structure that enables fast joins and complex queries.
Business logic in code
Bubble workflows become TypeScript functions — testable, versionable, debuggable, and not bound by the constraints of a visual workflow editor.
Real-time features
If your Bubble app uses live data updates, we rebuild them with WebSocket or Convex real-time queries — the same user experience without Bubble's real-time infrastructure limitations.
Authentication with proper RBAC
Bubble's user system replaced with Clerk authentication and a proper role-based access control model — organisation hierarchies, custom roles, permission scopes, and row-level security.
Data migration
Existing Bubble data exported, cleaned, and imported into the new schema. Launch with your existing users and data intact. Built on Next.js App Router, TypeScript, Postgres or Convex, Clerk, Tailwind CSS.
One honest number to start.
Fixed-scope, fixed-price. The number below is the starting point — final scope is built from your brief.
A production web application that does everything your Bubble app does — without the performance ceiling, the workflow complexity, or the platform dependency — built on a codebase you own and a developer relationship you can trust.
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
Rebuilding a Bubble app is a defined scope project — the existing Bubble app is the specification. We can assess the scope, price it accurately, and commit to a delivery timeline. Fixed scope, fixed price means you're not writing a blank check to rebuild an app of known complexity.
Related engagements.
Questions, answered.
We review the Bubble app directly — page structure, data types and relationships, workflow logic, integration list, and user count. From that review, we produce a scope document that maps each Bubble component to its equivalent in the new stack and identifies anything that requires design decisions (data model restructuring, feature improvements, etc.).
The visual design can match the Bubble app exactly, or we can improve it as part of the rebuild. Most founders use the rebuild as an opportunity to improve the UI/UX based on user feedback they've collected on the Bubble version. Either approach is scoped explicitly.
After the new application is live, tested, and running in production with your user base migrated, you can cancel your Bubble subscription. We keep the Bubble app available on a read-only basis during the transition period for data reference.
Partial Bubble replacements are technically possible but usually less efficient than a full rebuild — Bubble's architecture doesn't lend itself to hybrid deployments. In most cases, a full rebuild that replaces the entire Bubble app is faster and more cost-effective than a partial migration.
Simple Bubble apps (5–10 data types, 20–30 pages, basic integrations) typically run $25k–$45k. Complex Bubble apps with custom plugins, extensive workflows, and third-party integrations run $45k–$80k. Fixed-price after scoping.
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.