Thoughts on sites built with Bubble?
Hey all,
I don't want to bring controversy, but I'm curious what people think of sites built with Bubble? I know it's probably better than not having a site at all, but I've come across a few and am always stricken by the poor design and UX (and let's not talk about the data security aspects...). Overall they feel unprofessional, and not somewhere I'd feel comfortable putting my money. So, what do you all think? Benefits over-weigh drawbacks? Is a Bubble site only meant for a rough MVP and then you ditch it for a custom solution?
Cheers,
I honestly think most of the general market won't care. If I have a bad enough problem I'm using whatever website has the solution. If there are multiple websites I'll pick whichever website came recommended.
I have never in my life looked into buying software and thought "man this website's UI just isn't doing it for me".
Most people who think a websites UI is bad will complain about it long before they churn. If Zapier's UI was utter trash when they came to market they would have probably grown the same.
Facebook, Airbnb, and Twitter have all had bad UI in the beginning and grew. First step is to get in the game. Step 2 is to adapt to survive it.
Makes sense! I like your point about offering a solution to a bad enough problem. Really forces you to focus on the right thing.
Totally agree with this - have you seen the Enterprise software market? It's been pretty a horrendous user experience forever and they charge a fortune.
Most new to market solutions are pretty raw and get better over time so unless your product is defined only by how it looks I don't see how Bubble would hold anyone back. There are also a lot of ways to make Bubble look good it's just not that pretty out of the box.
Took me a while to grasp Bubble. It's more powerful than most no-code app builders in the market. Crappy design just comes down to people who build sites with poor UX principles. I would suggest people look at the template community and purchase something as a baseline for good UX and modify it from there.
Actually, yes, let's talk about the data security aspects! What are you referring to? I hadn't heard anything, but I've been playing with Bubble, thinking about using it, so I'm curious!
Ha! Well, some sites I've come across are essentially leaking their data (including user emails) through poorly-built API endpoints. I haven't used Bubble enough to know how this works, but I'm assuming this is more of a user-error, lacking the technical knowledge to think about those things, and it can probably be fixed by better specifying what data comes back.
Ah, yeah, if it is what you're saying, it is on the customer-side of things.
When you turn on the data API, you get a popup that says:
Perhaps this is relatively new, in response to the issues.
That said, some would recommend erring on the side of security, but its a balance between ease-of-use and security.