Bubble.io Reaches One Million Users: What This Means For Start-up Founders.

Companies like Bubble have incredible growth potential because they create a platform of opportunity for many others. (Photo by Anthony Cantin on Unsplash)

Bubble.io has reached a major milestone… it’s One-Millionth User. The growth of its user base is a big deal for Bubble Group Inc, for Bubble’s user base, and for start-up founders across the world.

In case you haven’t heard of Bubble.io, here is a quick primer:

Bubble.io’s purpose is “making it possible for anyone to build software.”

Bubble.io is partly a visual programming language and partly a cloud hosting provider, making it probably the easiest (read least technically challenging) way to set up and deploy a fully customizable web application, accessible to anyone in the world.

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As a Bubble.io developer and mentor*, in the last 12 months I’ve worked with:

1. Business Owners who have taught themselves Bubble.io and have built information systems to automate parts of their business process. Some are now creating bespoke software products for niches within their industry that they deeply understand and can sell to using an attractive SAAS subscription model.
2. Pre-Seed Start-up Founders who have purchased a $500 template, customized it with the help of a Bubble developer for under $5,000, proved out market demand for their idea, and have gone on to raise a significant seed round.
3. Seed-Round Start-Up Founders who are deploying web platforms on Bubble.io capable of generating five, six, or seven-figure monthly recurring revenue, with Version 1.0 of these platforms costing between $50–100k. Yep, they could pay for their platform costs within a few months with the right marketing and sales efforts.

So why celebrate One Million Users?

One Million Users puts Bubble.io on the map. Already, there is incredible demand for Bubble.io from early-stage founders and a thriving ecosystem gaining momentum around this demand.

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One Million Users will lead to more organic growth, further accelerating the adoption curve of this product and its ecosystem within the start-up community.

One Million Users will lead to greater investment into Bubble.io as a company and its product (whether this is additional external investment rounds, or reinvesting revenue), allowing Bubble to mature features that are still early in the development cycle (e.g. improvements to its developer interface, version control systems, and adding the ability to service highly regulated industries such as Healthcare or Finance come to mind). Take examples of Figma and LucidChart here as similar products in the same ecosystem that have recently raised large rounds to mature their product offering.

Now I acknowledge my bias here as a Bubble.io Developer — and I also point out to the critics that no solution or tool is or will ever be perfect — but I challenge anyone to find a better (read quicker and more affordable) way to deliver a quality web application that can scale. If you can do so, I’m curious to learn more.

So far, Bubble.io is succeeding in its goal of democratizing software development. The Million User badge confirms to me that Bubble.io is a serious player. Congratulations Bubble —I can’t wait to see this become 10 million!

Now the real question you should be asking is: Which app idea will you choose to build on Bubble first?

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*The views expressed here are those of Will Ericksson and do not represent Bubble. Bubble is a trademark of the Bubble Group Inc. Will is not an employee of or an investor in Bubble. Will teaches Bootcamps for Bubble as a contractor.

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