Meet the Winners of Immerse Demo Day and Bubble’s Community Awards

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To close out BubbleCon 2024, we celebrated some of our most innovative and passionate Bubblers with a few accolades at Immerse Demo Day and the Community Awards.

Watch the replay below, or keep reading to find out who won.

Immerse Impact winners 

Immerse is Bubble’s 10-week, fully-funded program that gives founders the tools they need to build their MVP. This year’s cohort, Immerse Impact, was solely focused on supporting founders whose companies are building social good.

At Immerse Demo Day at BubbleCon, finalists Kai Alexander Patricio, Patrick Mulvihill, Renee Jackson, and Shawn Cohen presented their products to compete for the Community Favorite and Best Pitch prizes.

Community Favorite 

The BubbleCon audience determines the Community Favorite Award. Patrick Mulvihill, who built the Spéire Nua Companion App, took home the award for his app, which helps people with criminal convictions reintegrate into society.

Best Pitch 

Best Pitch Award finalists are judged on both product and pitch. A panel of Bubble judges evaluates their work using criteria like business model, product-user fit, and design. 

This year, Founder Renee Jackson took home the prize for her groundbreaking work on Dyspute.ai, an affordable and efficient platform that harnesses AI to make dispute resolution more accessible.

Community Awards

Bubble received more than 1,600 nominations for our community awards — a set of accolades we give out to some of our most accomplished Bubblers. This year, our awards were sponsored by Codi Tech and Airdev.

Mentor Award

The Bubble Mentor Award honors the most outstanding Bubble educator. This year, we were excited to award that honor to Caio Calderari. Since 2020, he has:

  • Made over 300 videos and courses about how to use Bubble
  • Helped founders build startups and developers launch careers 
  • Published a book about Bubble 

Community Champion 

The Community Champion award goes to someone who celebrates victories and advocates for the needs of their fellow Bubblers. This year, Tim Polfliet took home the honor. He built Webinti, a no-code agency that also offers hours of courses to teach Bubble to the French-speaking no-code community.

Founder Awards

The Founder Awards recognize those who are leading with vision, achieving significant milestones, and making notable contributions to the Bubble community. This year, we were excited to award Jacob Halbert and Sho Mitchell.

Founder of the Year

Jacob is the founder of Ohana, a subleasing app with an advanced backend communication system that’s raised $4.2 million in funding.

Rising Star

Sho Mitchell’s app Beatlibrary.io democratizes making music by offering affordable, royalty-free beats with transparent licensing. It’s amassed a whopping 35,000 active users. 

Agency and Freelancer Awards 

The Freelancer and Agency of the Year awards celebrate a freelancer and agency known for speed, innovation, and consistently delivering exceptional results. 

Freelancer Award 

Jagdish Bajaj is an exceptional freelancer who “conducts himself with the professionalism, care, and thoughtfulness you’d expect of an equity partner or owner despite being an hourly consultant,” said one client. We think that speaks for itself. 

Agency Award

Goodspeed is our Agency of the Year winner — and for good reason. Dedicated to building exceptional apps, their attention to detail goes beyond functionality, creating digital experiences that resonate with users on a personal level. 

Ecosystem Awards 

Our Ecosystem Awards are given to builders and plugins that extend Bubble beyond the core platform. 

The Best New Plugin

The Best New Plugin is awarded to the most innovative and impactful Bubble plugin released in the last 12 months. This year, that award went to the Fuzzy Search Pro by Zeroqode. The plugin:

  • Allows you to search databases with precision, offering advanced sorting options
  • Offers seamless integration and multilingual support
  • Handles imperfect queries with accuracy 

Ecosystem Contributor of the Year

Ecosystem Contributor of the Year honors an individual or organization for substantial contributions that benefit the entire Bubble community.

This year’s winner was No-Code Artisan for their:

  • Reliable plugins like Plotly, which enables users to create dynamic data visualizations
  • Tools such as Quill Rich Text Editor, and Drag It 
  • Plugins' ease of use, consistent feature updates, and excellent customer service

App Awards

App Awards are given to apps that demonstrate excellence in innovation, design, functionality, or impact.

Most Innovative App 

The Most Innovative App Award celebrates an app that pushes the boundaries of no-code development.

This year’s winner is Ringly.io, an app that helps businesses create AI-powered phone agents. Since launching this summer, the app has amassed nearly 500 users!

Fastest Growing App 

The Fastest Growing App Award celebrates an app that’s achieved rapid user growth in the last 12 months. 

This year, WriteHuman took home the award. WriteHuman is an AI-driven solution that helps businesses create human-like content at scale and has over 500,000 users.

Outstanding UX/UI 

The Outstanding UX/UI award honors the app that excels in both user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) design. This year, we honored StoryPilot for their:

  • Seamless integration of chat LLMs and TTS LLMs (AI that converts written text into speech)
  • Intuitive design features and native app elements 
  • Ability to combine cutting-edge technology with flawless design

Best Homepage Design 

Minimum Studio created a visually stunning and highly interactive homepage for their business with:

  • Sleek design, animations, and advanced interactions 
  • Custom plugins and innovative techniques
  • Seamless integrations of chat LLMs and TTS LLMs 
  • Native app elements like snap-to groups and swipe groups 

Best Use of AI 

The Best Use of AI Award celebrates the app that makes the most effective and innovative use of artificial intelligence. 

This year’s winner was Formula Bot, an app that:

  • Uses AI to simplify complex data tasks
  • Allows users to generate Excel formulas, convert PDFs to spreadsheets, and more
  • Supports seamless data interaction from various sources like Google Sheets

Best Internal Tool 

The Best Internal Tool recognizes a tool built on Bubble that has significantly improved business operations.

This year’s winner is MyBriefy, a custom-built internal tool that’s transformed Global Titan Digital Marketing's operations by organizing and streamlining workflows. 

Best B2B App

The Best B2B App award goes to the best business-to-business app created on Bubble.

This year, My AskAI took home the prize for transforming customer support. The app:

  • Integrates with existing platforms like Slack, Teams, and Zendesk 
  • Simplifies customer interactions by pulling insights from conversations 

One customer even noted: “My AskAI has not only lightened our load but also gave us insights we didn’t know we needed. Definitely one of the best tools we’ve added to our workflow.”

Congratulations to all of our winners! And thank you to our sponsors for making BubbleCon, and our awards, possible. 

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